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NAB2007 – What a Rollercoaster Ride
New Local Content Workshops Are Forming A special thanks to John Stapsy and his colleagues at datavideo for their support of the Video Production Crash Course at NAB. John discussed the challenges of live production in his presentation at the day long conference. Datavideo also provided us with switching and recording equipment that allowed us…
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Security Card Eliminates Set-Top
Pictured Above – Laurent Jabiol – President/co-founder Neotion Neotion introduced a MPEG-4 decoder that fits inside a smart card. This effectively eliminates the need for an MPEG-4 set-top for any television with a smartcard interface (apparently in Europe, the Smartcard interface has been mandated for years). This box is being used in conjunction with PC…
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The Making of the Rollercoaster Video
This video provides an overview of how datavideo created a video that superimposed Roger and Ken onto a rollercoaster ride. One trick, not mentioned in the video, was the use of fans to provide a wind-blown look to Ken and Roger’s respective hair. It is around the hair and other fine edges, that one normally…
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Can IPTV Scale to 1 Million Homes?
This post brought to you by Kasenna Can IPTV scale to 1 million homes? This was the question posed on the panel, IPTV – Scaling World Wide, at the Telecom @ NAB conference. Panelists from HP, Intel and Kasenna discussed the methodologies of their recent performance and stress testing of a typical IPTV configuration. Further,…
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Video – This Generation’s Word Processor – a.k.a. Clash of the Software Titans
New Local Content Workshops Are Forming The lines that separated the “productivity” applications from Microsoft, Adobe and Google have long been blurring and video – from production to distribution – is shaping up as the latest battleground for these software titans (e.g. Microsoft’s Silverlight versus Adobe’s Media Player). These thoughts crystallized as I watched the…
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ViodiTV Summary Video – April 11th, 2007
This is a summary video of some of the things that are on ViodiTV and the Viodi View for the period from 3/28/07 to 4/11/07.
