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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Standards'
The industry is growing up. DRM is Dead. Long Live DRM.
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards
Javascript frameworks. Is it the future?
September 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · flash · flex · google · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards
AVCHD takes it place in the spotlight.
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: codecs · Film Making · Standards
Where to now developer
July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
There is no denying that the future of how we use computer is changing. The advent of applications that live on the network/Internet is making the developer think twice about where he should be headed. As a developer, you need to be ahead of the curve as by the time your product is ready your [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · flash · flex · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards
Google, standards and Internet TV.
June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Watching TV from Internet based sources has grown drastically in the last year, still, amazingly there has been little more then lip service and toe in the water reactions from the larger encumbent players. The bandwidth issues has been touted as the main reason. For example, until the internet is upgraded giving higher bandwidth access [...]