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January 16, 2008
HD-DVD is nearly dead and it's quite possible that BluRay may soon see the same fate. At MacWorld San Francisco 2008 Steve Jobs announced the all new Apple TV Take 2 which now allows usage of the device without a...
January 8, 2008
Panasonic once again claims the title for the largest plasma monitor in the world, sizing in at 150". This thing is HUGE in both size and resolution. Supporting up to 4k resolutions (that's film resolution) it looks stunning as long...
September 26, 2007
According to the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, Best Buy conducted a survey that found that 90 of Americans don't understand HDTVs. Electronics retailer, Richfield-based Best Buy said that it polled 1,012 consumers from Aug. 3 to Aug. 5,...
January 9, 2007
Samsung has a new plasma mount. Now we know that plasma mounts are not very exciting and how much innovation can you have in a plasma mount. Well this one is both motorized and remote controlled. There are a number...
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January 8, 2007
Wow, that's one big TV. How big of a family room do you need to put one of these in your home? Ben thinks the picture quality starts to degrade at this size, but, as you can see, he's...
January 2, 2007
It's New Years eve. My wife and I are snuggled up on the couch watching the ball drop. 10! 9! 8! 7! KABLAM!!! Our micro-projection HD set turns off with a loud popping noise. Immediately I fear the lamp has...
November 8, 2006
I was sitting at home a couple nights ago watching television with my new Series 3 HD TiVo recorder. Unfortunately the wife was watching Desperate Housewives live so there was no ability to fast forward through commercials. I was sitting next to her working on my MacBook, not really paying attention when all of a sudden the 5.1 surround kicked in.
May 3, 2006
We are trying to build the ultimate HDTV media center. Part of this process involves getting live HDTV content, meaning over-the-air, cable or satellite. About a week ago we got digital cable and tonight we just finished deploying DirectTV satellite. So how do they compare? One word: MAH!
May 2, 2006
The Macintosh rumor site MacOSRumors.com is reporting that the next version of Mac OS X will employ a BitTorrent driven iTunes. The story is probably buried under online advertising, so you’ll have to work to read it… You know, close the pop-up window, now close the hover window, and it’s next to the 10 Google ads. Hmmm, knowing them it’s probably under 3 more pop up advertisements.
This is just a rumor and Apple rumors are rarely correct, but this particular item is very interesting and near and dear to me. At Technology Evangelist we have dabbled in distributing high definition videos online via bit torrent and have even highlighted a key application called Democracy Player. Lets make the assumption that this rumor is true (just go with it for now) and that Apple will be releasing a torrent engine in the Mac OS X 10.5 version of iTunes. What does this mean and why?
April 23, 2006
The National Association of Broadcasters convention officially kicks off Monday and the press releases have already started flowing. For those not in the know, the big, big media guns are not shown at CES, nay, they are shown at NAB.
March 24, 2006
The latest HDTV podcast from the HT Guys (#76) mentions Technology Evangelist's syndicated HD videos content available through iTunes.
March 16, 2006
Yesterday I posted on Democracy player, and right now it's Technology Evangelist's preferred player for techies. As we stated, it's a wee bit buggy and not for everyone yet, so how can you watch our HDTV content if you're not an uber-geek?
March 15, 2006
I ran across an application recently that will change the world. I see massive media networks like NBC, CBC, BBC and others all stand by and watch as their business models are blown to bits. Everything we know about television, radio and media in general will be re-imagined. As Jeff Jarvis recently posted quoting Rupert Murdoch, "A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it." I'm throwing my hat in the ring and screaming to the world "it’s time, the revolution is here!" So what is this hot app? What will change the world?? What could make such a huge dent in the traditional media universe??? It’s simple -- Democracy.
March 14, 2006
Up until now most video on the Internet has been postage stamped sized. A small 320x240 or 240x180 window at 15 frames per second. We had to do this because we simply had no good CODEC to compress with and no good way to distribute larger files. With the advent of h.264 we’re able to distribute full 1080p HD resolutions online. The problem is that these files are HUGE! One 25 minute show can be around 2GB. If there were 10,000 downloads of that show, it would be 20,000GB of information transferred. That’s a lot of information for one server to deal with. By using BitTorrent we’re able to distribute that load among everyone interested in the video, reduce the strain on the server, drastically reduce costs, and improve the user experience. In my mind this will end up being the standard way of delivering HD content online.
March 11, 2006
For those of you who remember Charbax from our CES HD coverage, he's back! This time Charbax was able to make it to the CeBit 2006 and record come great segments in Divx HD. Go grab the Divx player and head on over to http://www.cebitvideo.com to see the latest from the CeBIT show in beautiful HD!
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