JamieG Analysis

Canon has slated the release of a new camera that will put H.264/AVC into the spot light recently.  I have written much over the years about how H.264 will eventually take over as the standardised codec of choice. The Canon HG20/HG21 is the camera that will make consumers love AVC.
See Gizmoto review here.
The thing that [...]

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I am very busy getting some work done before a holiday to Sydney.  I have been unable to get much together for my BLOG, however, here is our latest showreel at digitAll/Planet X Studios the company I am a part owner in and the Technical Director.
I also wanted to give vimeo a go.  I heard [...]

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A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Recently Youtube announced a new channel specifically for producers who make news type content.
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Em6c795bzc0
This announcement makes Youtube a portal for NEWS by independent reporters.  Social technologies will obviously be used to bring hi-quality and items of social interest to the top of the channel.  It will be interesting to see how well this goes.
This development [...]

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A while back I reported that we would soon see portable flash momory based, high quality recorders to strip onto an HD-SDI based camera available.
Well here is a great first attempt at this technology..
From http://www.convergent-design.com/ we have the Flash XDR (See some cool comments here)
This device makes any HD-SDI camera capable of recording better then [...]

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