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Welcome Video Technology Magazine is your source for news, infomation, and analysis from all around the video technology community. Contributed to by several experts in the field, we are dedicated to bringing you the best interaction and inside information to give you a much better insite into the industry at many levels. From the Editor For years, my friends and I have been researching different areas of technology and video for business and personal interests. Some of this research would either go into starting a new companies or new products for someone else's company, but, more often then not, it would just collect in some filing cabinet and gather dust until it became too outdated. So after many many years of this, I finally decided to do something about it. I created this site to share what myself and others were researching. This effort has been very productive and allow much more interaction and insider information then I have had previously, as well as giving me a much better insite into the industry. I hope you all benefit from this information and please contribute as much as possible. - The Editor, John L. Sokol

Special Sections Dec 2007 As many of you have probably noticed, I have not been updating articles for the past year. I had some financal setbacks and have been working Full time somewhere for the past year. I still do consulting in the evenings too. So I just haven't had the time for writting articles. I hope to get back up to speed, so much has been happening in this area. If anyone wants to help turn this into a real serious online or print maganzine, let me know. Since it's just too much time for be to be doing all of the work on my own. I think there is a real need and much more potencial here then I have had the time to capitalize on. John July 28, 2006 Now hiring in Bangalore, C and C++ , Windows, Linux , FreeBSD Write Us or Call 998-0160544 , come by at any time, just off Bull Temple Road. Work with a group of experianced International Video software developers in a relaxed creative enviornment. This is for our software services group. Working on Wireless cameras, DVR's video confrencing and streaming video systems. We are also starting the Bangalore BSD Unix users group BangBUG March 6, 2006 New V4L Video For Linux Site is up, The site is home to the VIVI driver that has just been comleted. VIVI is the Virtual Video Driver for Linux, and it's the only working Example code for how to write a video driver in the 2.6.X Linux Kernels. December 29, 2005 Video Technology Magazine has come a long ways, I am now working on projects related to it Full time. VTM is supported from Google ads and paying contract projects that come from Our Services Group. This is mostly consulting services ranging from Windows and Linux Software development to providing advice, testing and researching technologies. This has been going well enough that I now have an office in Bangalore India with several full time developers on staff there. Getting my technical people to submit articles has been like trying to pull teeth, so I have had to do almost all of the writing on my own. There are many more articles I have material for and would very much like to go in-depth on many topics. It's important that VTM not become anther mindless RSS Feed, or just reposting of Press Releases, but I seek to find the Deeper story and understand what Is really happening. Also To be able to interpret things on many more levels, from an in depth technical to a market trends and even stock market financial view. For lack of being able to find any web development tools that allow me do lay the site out they way I'd like, I hand Edit all the HTML by Hand using VI on FreeBSD Unix. Even though I have been working with analog video for almost 30 years (since I was 8) and Streaming Compressed video for 15, this is the first time I am really starting to see things change and take off. The main stream is starting to take it seriously rather then take a "If we don't understand it, then Kill it" approach. The long predicted convergence of computers and television is just about here. With compression, Internet and Broadband to the home, the FCC, Cable monopolies and other limitations are rapidly eroding along with the physical and technical boundaries of where video can go and what can be done. It's truly an exciting time for this industry. John L. Sokol

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