JamieG Analysis

If you follow my blog, I have been a big believer in the Blu-Ray format. I have written many posts over the years to bust this myth that online will kill Blu-Ray.  At this stage I think I need to revisit this issue, especially as Philip Hodgetts received some very interesting comments from video equipment [...]

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In a recent post called “A fly in Steve’s soup (Apple’s path to online video)” I wrote about how Apple is bringing together a digital media ecosystem that could become a total end to end solution for playing all you media.  Buy once and play everywhere, but with a DRM systems.  Apple’s DRM system of [...]

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A long time ago, before I started this blog (Over 2 years ago), I spent a lot of time on writing comments to other blogs.  Specifically about DRM and its only real roll, if it had any at all, in the future of digital media. In general I was usually flamed with no one even [...]

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An interesting post on TechCrunch was pointed out to me today by Philip Hodgetts.  Philip has been putting his acceptance behind the open-web based around the push by Apple into WebKit/javascript and Javascript frameworks like Sproutcore. (Note this can also now be said for Google and the new Chrome browser) Today we have another contender [...]

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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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