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6,000 RPM's6,000 RPM'sThe personal weblog of Steve Springett. Steve is a professional web designer who specializes in internet delivery of audio and video. His blog contains tips and tricks for some of the latest technologies. Articles
Blu-ray: A victory too late?
2008-02-18 00:38:00 Yesterday, Japan’s NHK reported that Toshiba will stop manufacturing HD-DVD equiptment. This comes in light of the recent announcemets during CES by Warner Studios and by the more recent accountments of Netflix, Blockbuster and Wal-Mart to stock only Blu-ray players and titles going forward. Alas, consumers finally have an easy choice for a physical media format; ... More About: Victory , Audio , Late
Review: Elecard Converter Studio 2.0
2007-10-10 19:42:00 In the era of YouTube and sub $1000 pro-sumer cameras, the need for video encoding tools is ever increasing. By in-large, the demand for such tools is no longer a job for the professional. Today, literally hundreds of encoding tools exist. Googling “Video Encoding Tools” yields just under 45,000 results. So how do you ... More About: Audio , Review , Converter , Studio , Studio 2
Is Blu-ray and HD-DVD Dead?
2007-09-18 19:00:00 For the last several years, Blu-ray and HD-DVD have been duking it out. Blu-ray was initially far superior to HD-DVD because of the use of the blue laser whereas HD-DVD initially used red. At the present time however, there isn’t much difference between the two. They both use blue lasers, both have high capacity (although ... More About: Video , Audio , Dead
Apple Confirms September 5th Event
2007-08-29 22:14:00 As previously rumored, Apple confirmed, late Tuesday, that they will be holding an event at the Moscone Center on September 5th, 2007. Judging from the invite sent to select members of the press, Apple may be announcing new iPods, just in time for the pre-holiday season. Rumors have been circulating that the new iPods will ... More About: Video , Event , Audio , Toys
The Best Flash Video (FLV) Players
2007-08-29 20:19:00 I’ve done a lot of work with Flash video over the last couple of years and have found it to be both a blessing and a curse. In one regard, a publisher doesn’t have to worry too much about whether their audience can play the video or not because of the large market penetration of ... More About: Video , Audio , Players , Layer
H.264 and Flash - Too little?
2007-08-24 21:44:00 On Monday, Adobe together with MainConcept announced details on an update to Adobe’s Flash Player which will include support for H.264 (aka MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Codec, AVC). Tinic Uro, a Adobe engineer, provides details on his blog. Why is this important and how will this effect users? H.264 one of three video standards that ... More About: Audio , Litt
Tagging MP4 Video
2007-07-06 16:35:00 There are a lot of programs out there that are capable of tagging MPEG-4 video files (.mp4, .m4v), most of which are free or open-sourced and usually based on Atomic Parsley, mpeg4ip, or mp4box. The benefits of tagging are numerous and include the ability for all associated metadata (title, season, description, ratings, actors, artwork, etc) ... More About: Video , Audio , Tagging
CCC! at TCEA
2007-07-05 22:44:00 YouTube Link I created a simple video of our booth at the Texas Computer Education Association conference in Austin and placed it on YouTube. The video shows the booth during and after construction. Among being responsible for architecting the video-on-demand product itself, I had to create a temporary network to showcase the on-demand, webcasting and podcasting ...
60th Anniversary: Roswell Incident
2007-03-24 23:41:00 That’s right freaks, the 60th anniversary of the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell , NM is coming up. It takes place over the July 4th holiday weekend and goes for 4 days. Visit the Roswell UFO Festival website for more information. The city is expecting over 50,000 people from around the world to attend this years ... More About: Personal , Anniversary , Incident , Cide
Apple TV Teaser
2007-03-20 01:39:00 I don’t think I’ve been so excited about a single product. Ever! But when Steve Jobs announced the Apple TV on January 9th 2007, I was jumping for joy. Finally, a company understood what it was that I wanted to do with my media, for starters anyway. So after a long delay in February, I ... More About: Video , Audio , Teaser , Teas |
