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Looking for an easy way to keep up track some of the coolest products on the show floor at CES this year? Subscribe for free to the Technology Evangelist HDTV feed through iTunes in a few easy steps. This will automatically bring daily HDTV video interviews and demos of the most intersting an disruptive technologies we discover at CES directly to your desktop. Here is how to do it. 1 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Open iTunes 2 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Click on the Music Store 3 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Select Podcasts in the left corner 4 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Search for Technology Evangelist in the left side search box 5 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Subscribe to the Technology Evangelist HDTV feed right in iTunes 6 ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú Watch HDTV RIGHT IN iTUNES!!! It really is that easy. Keep that subscription alive after CES because more great HDTV content, including extended interviews with some of the most influential companies in consumer electronics today will be published to both TechnologyEvangelist.com and our video podcast (videocast, vlog, etc.) feed available through iTunes. Questions? Comments? Let's hear them in the comments section below.
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2. Posted by: Roald Marth on January 6, 2006 6:20 AM:
I just tried the simple step by step instructions for iTunes auto downloading of video content and it works GREAT! It is just like TIVO, but I am getting exactly the information I want from CES...thanks for this cutting edge and innovative service.....as well as incredible information....you guys seem to be working 24x7, thanks for the committment to excellence.
3. Posted by: Benjamin Higginbotham on January 6, 2006 9:59 AM:
Charbax, on my way back to the floor, but wanted to get back to you before I go.
As for speeding up encoding, probably won't happen this year unless someone flys down with a PowerMac G5 Quad. Next year we'll invest in big, beefy editing systems and bring a couple along... Some for editing and some for compressing. Right now we have 1 laptop, which is 2 years old, doing all the work. I simply don't have anything to offload the load onto.
480p encodes in 1/2 the time as 720p, and it allows me to move the file to a diferent system (after I told you we only have one, we really have 2, but one can't edit), and then I can make the podcasts and Video iPod feed from that file. So it's a timing thing, allows us to work faster. I agree, 720p first would be REALLY nice, but I don't think it will work this year.
Yes, the torrent files should start today. I hope they will at least :)
Your suggestions are all good ones, but we're limited by our gear. We have learned a LOT and will making a few equipment changes for next year. The raw (well, slightly cooked to get a few screwups out) interviews will be AMAZING, you'll love them!
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1. Posted by: Charbax on January 6, 2006 4:05 AM:
Okay, but that downloads the videos from your centralized server right. I will suggest you, once you have released content, to make a BitTorrent RSS feed! One can then subscribe to it with Azeureus, DTV or other program. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BitTorrent+RSS
Thus thousands of users can automatically download using BitTorrent immediately once you release a new video on BitTorrent.
Does 480p encode faster then 720p? I would suggest releasing 720p first cause for most people it's the maximum resolution their flat screens and laptop screens can support.
I'm in China, and when I get very slow per connection speeds to Europe and USA (sometimes 5kb/s), I try to split up the file using winrar and I try to upload using multiple connections. For example split up a file in 10 pieces and upload to my fast computer in Denmark using 10 skype file transfers at the same time, while I remote control the computer in Denmark using VNC.
Just some suggestions! I am looking forward to the video coverage! Hoping that you can find a way to speed up encoding (using other computers?) and possibly speed up the uploading (getting online somehow at the CES someplace where they have faster upload speeds?) so we can have many many minutes in HD each day. I will gladly help you spam your URL to many online CES coverage places once you have content available, though that requires I guess that you have the BitTorrent up and working?