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Entries Tagged as 'Standards'

Sony makes a decent VTR – About TIME.

March 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Sony is about to release a VTR that actually answers the needs of a modern Post Production House.  This has been a long time coming.  And in some ways I would like to think I had a hand in shaping its future. (see here) A number of years ago, back when the HDCAM deck was [...]

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Tags: codecs · Development · Film Making · Post Production · Sony · Standards

P2P following HTTP and ftp… About time.

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

 Following up from a post a while back called: Evolution of file copy. “cp”, “ftp”, “http”, “p2p” A new project in the EU has been setup between a number of educational and corporate entities to give birth to the next big open standard Internet protocol.  I.e. an open standard P2P protocol. This is great news [...]

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Tags: Development · IPTV · P2P · Standards

Where is the digital media ignition point?

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have not noticed, my blog mainly covers technological issues to do with the adoption or digital media. As such, I talk to a lot of people regarding their business models for expanding digital media. One strange, trend that has appeared is that many companies developing digital media strategies are, by admition, ignoring a [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards

Adobe’s plan for world domination

January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

This week I was lucky to have a Flex evangelist from Adobe, Daniel Dura, come to my town of Melbourne to tote the Adobe line.  Of course, being a “digital media head” I drilled him on all the questions I could think of that would give me a peek into the future directions of Adobe. [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · flash · flex · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards

The Interactive TV myth

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Today I want to discuss interactive TV, the Holy Grail that unfortunately does not exist. Well not like we expected it to exist. Before we jump into the current issues surrounding Interactive TV, let’s look at some perceived ideas of what it is and how history may have a twist on these ideas. Interactive TV [...]

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Tags: IPTV · Post Production · Standards