Hitchcock’s Psycho Celebrating 50th Anniversary on Blu-ray
By Michael Silbergleid filmofilia.com has the story on the work done to Psycho to get it onto Blu-ray. It’s a great story (and will be a great Blu-ray). You can […] More
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U.S. Said to Let Movie Studios Use Anti-Piracy Technology on TV
By Michael Silbergleid Bloomberg Businessweek reports that “U.S. regulators will let the film industry use anti-piracy technology on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies over cable and […] More
New Technology Claims to Correct Fundamental Problem in Audio
By Michael Silbergleid TelepresenceOptions.com has an interesting story about audio: “It’s apparent that the audio recording and reproduction process introduces some catastrophic damage to the signal. If it didn’t, our […] More
TV for Toddlers Linked With Later Problems
By Michael Silbergleid NYTimes.com reports that “toddlers who watch a lot of television were more likely to experience a range of problems by the fourth grade, including lower grades, poorer […] More
TED Opens Its Video Library to Broadcast Television Worldwide
By Michael Silbergleid FastCompany.com reports that the TED (“Technology, Entertainment, Design”) conference’s TED Open TV Project now allows broadcast TV stations to play the “TEDTalks” for free, widening the audience […] More
Who Needs Flash? HTML5 is Cool
By Michael Silbergleid Time for a video compression/platform update courtesy of WebMonkey.com: http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/who-needs-flash/ More
Three Reasons Google Bought Bump Technologies
By Michael Silbergleid ChannelWeb has the story of why Google this week continued its acquisition mania with the buyout of Bump Technologies, makers of BumpTop, a 3D desktop interface with […] More
Here's What Everybody Is Getting Wrong In The Flash-Apple Story
By Michael Silbergleid BusinessInsider.com states it plainly enough: “H.264 Is A Codec, Flash Is A Platform: One Can’t Kill Off The Other.” Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/understanding-the-difference-between-flash-and-h264-2010-5#ixzz0mznUbrz7 More
Death to Floppy!
By Michael Silbergleid B&H Insights has the story on Sony’s decision to stop making 3.5-inch floppy disks and the evolution of portable storage media. http://computers.bhinsights.com/content/death-floppy.html More
In Mobile Video Standards Fight, Consumers Are Poised to Lose
By Michael Silbergleid Bnet.com reports that the befuddling disagreement over Web video has real implications for regular computer users, who may find themselves unable to view certain videos depending on which […] More