Envivio’s MPEG-4-based Mindshare system lets Cornell’s med school professors teach students in Qatar
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Posted 08 Jun 2005
At Streaming Media East last month, three industry experts took a look into the crystal ball, and reached different conclusions regarding whether the standards-based H.264 or Microsoft’s proprietary VC1 will win out.
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Posted 01 Jun 2005
While some companies and pundits declare the codec dead, MPEG-4’s proponents get to work on making the most of the possibilities it offers.
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Posted 12 May 2005
As the love fades from Adobe’s relationship with Apple, Macromedia’s Web development and video products could give the company a leg up in the creative tools war.
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Posted 04 May 2005
The IRS’ Tax Talk Today keeps tax professionals up to speed on the latest regulations. For the streaming industry, it provides a textbook example of service-provider synergy.
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Posted 04 May 2005
With a larger provider presence, smaller hardware, and more buzz about VC-1 and H.264, NAB has become a must-visit show.
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Posted 27 Apr 2005
Bypassing DRM, companies hope to simplify content protection for both live and on-demand video and audio.
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Posted 18 Apr 2005
Joe Kane's Digital Video Essentials Professional is designed to help A/V pros calibrate displays. Along the way, it so happens that he’s helping increase the quality of Windows Media and H.264 for the entire streaming industry.
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Posted 23 Mar 2005
The $60 million settlement fee is lower than many had expected, and the agreement may make it difficult for Burst to pursue future licenses.
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Posted 14 Mar 2005
In the aftermath of the tsunami tragedy, video blogs have become familiar and gained respectability. Now, with tools like Serious Magic’s Vlog It!, it’s only a matter of time until they become another powerful tool for enterprise communications.
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Posted 16 Feb 2005
Specification 2.0, based on H.264, is but one of several initiatives designed to create industry-wide standards.
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Posted 26 Jan 2005
As Optibase shifts its focus back to network and streaming products, whither Media 100? It's a stark switch from the compay's public stance six months ago.
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Posted 19 Jan 2005
To quote Mark Twain, reports of the codec's demise are premature. If anything, H.264 is just beginning to gain traction.
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Posted 05 Jan 2005
When using MPEG formats in business communications, the biggest challenge can be arriving at the best compromise between compression and quality.
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Posted 29 Dec 2004
A batch of recent announcements and upcoming CES product announcements suggest that videophones just might be ready for their closeup.
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Posted 15 Dec 2004
When IBM realized that its HTML-based IT newsletter wasn't getting the job done, the company looked to ForwardView to provide Interactivity.
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Posted 08 Dec 2004
A major problem for equipment manufacturers is that their products don’t meet existing video encoding standards, much less accommodate emerging standards. Hence, two major requirements for the successful deployment of new digital video equipment are software programmability and system flexibility.
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Posted 10 Nov 2004
Departments of Transportation in more and more states are monitoring their highways via streaming video, integrating digital video surveillance and monitoring systems into Intelligent Transportation Systems.
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Posted 03 Nov 2004
General Mills' streaming media portal brings together a large workforce.
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Posted 26 Oct 2004
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