JamieG Analysis

Adobe is about to release “Flash Media Server 3“. (The web site says it has, but the download area still has version 2, for 3 weeks now. Waiting….)
This is great news especially because the PRICE has come down to a resonable level.
This is a “Change the internet event”. Mainly because it will allow [...]

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AppleTV is called the white elephant of the Apple product line. Low Margin. Poor sales. Called “An Experiment” by Steve Jobs. I, however, see it very differently. And, in my opinion, Steve Jobs does too.
Steve has always been big on diversions. The “AppleTV experiment”, the now lack of Apple TV [...]

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I said this was coming, but am surprised to see it so soon.
PS3 has in the last month, dropped its pants. They have cut the bottom of the hardware costs bringing the price down dramatically. Here in Australia, the price was briefly below the Xbox360 price until they matched it. While at the [...]

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Earlier today I was listening to “Digital Production Buzz“. This week’s audio podcast is defiantly a 5 star episode if you’re interested in the mind field that is the advantages and disadvantages of all the prosumer cameras and different codec’s and standards they use.
Adam Wilt was a wealth of information, and you have to concentrate [...]

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Recently DivX purchased MainConcept.
This is a very interesting move but really a very cleaver one. And here is my opinion why.
MainConcept is a leading developer in video encoding and decoding software. For example Adobe (New Flash Player) plus many other main stream companies use it. They have a well respected H.264 encoder/decoding. [...]

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