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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The Interactive TV myth
January 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: IPTV · Post Production · Standards
Comments on: Looking at the future on Video Codecs
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Philip Hodgetts and I are arguing over H.264 again…. Philip comments on H.264 for consumer cameras: > It’s nice to have high quality codec choices, but I don’t see AVCHD as > it is currently implemented in the cheap HD camcorders reaching the > appeal of HDV. Cheap and convenient seems to sell more than [...]
Tags: codecs · Post Production · Standards
Fragmentation, an unavoidable trend in media
January 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Continuing with key concepts in digital media, today I would like to focus on “fragmentation”. To help analyse this I would like to focus on a particular aspect of media which, I hope, the general reader has a better hands on experience. Advertising. The general consumer would understand, up until the advent of online/internet advertising, [...]
Tags: Development · digital signage · IPTV · Standards
Evolution of file copy. “cp”, “ftp”, “http”, “p2p”
January 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
In a previous post, a comment was posted pointing at a company called “ReelTime“. This is a movie rental service like “Jaman“. Both use a downloaded client that implements a DRM system and also a P2P file transfer system to download the files. The Reeltime P2P service is supplied by “GridNetworks“. I had also recently [...]