JamieG Analysis

Recently I wrote about “The tend towards an open STB continues.”
This trend has just been turned into a reality with Sony announcing that by Christmas, 90% or all TV on sale will be Internet ready,  and to quote the Sony release..
Sony will embrace open standards “to improve interoperability among all of our customers’ devices.”
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The Apple hype engine has been going into overdrive lately about Sproutcore. “What is Sproutcore?” Well, to a long tooth net developer, its JUST ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK.  But to the Apple alumni, its the biggest thing to happen to net applications in a long time.
My Web/Javascript programming friends do not even consider sproutcore is as [...]

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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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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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I common theme of my blog is is the road map to the future of Video on the net.  In short, the use and implementation of proprietary processes and set top boxes is going nowhere fast.
I have also referenced the BBC as an example of an organisation who actually “GETS IT”.  Their latest developments are [...]

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