| Video Technology Magazine | June 2005 |
"Today's order makes clear that [the FCC] is committed to moving the digital transition forward," Commissioner Michael Copps said in a statement. "Each time a consumer purchases a set with a digital tuner, we move one step closer towards accomplishing the transition." (1)
Article on the Boot leg release of Star Wars III ,Revenge of the Sith
A report on SlashDot:
Dialcom has other video products, and offices in Germany, Spain and Portugal. vSkype this is another Video plugin for Skype from Santa Cruz Networks product is in Beta
LG Electronics, for example, currently markets a 55-inch LCD television for about $19,000 USD. Samsung Electronics announced it had developed an 82-inch LCD panel. No mention of when it will go into production. As a comparision 65-inch plasma display are now available for around $10,000 USD. Matsushita (Panasonic TH-65PHD7UY) has a 65-inch plasma display, for example, that can only display 1366x768 resolution. This is slightly over WXGA. Samsung has the largest plasma TV with an amazing 102-inch diagonal model, the Z-102, will also do 1920x1080. Price is expected to be over $100,000 USD Most LCD larger then 42 inches can product 1920x1080 but for plasma display don't reach this resolution until 71 inches (> $40K US).
More reading, CES Report
E-commercials on the Internet - Streaming Video IPTV Video Headend Forecast Shows Sharp Shift in 2007 to MPEG-4 Disposable video camera: $29.99 Drugstore chain CVS to launch first-ever disposable video camera in Northeast stores this week. Apple vows to make podcasting easier Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
Internet Video Chat was something we pioneered in 1996 with the early CuSee Me, and Livecam Systems. Although Video chat dates back to the 1964, with Demo at the Worlds Fair in New York, the Electronic Cafe experiments using Satellite links in the 1970's, and later things like H.261 over ISDN and Deticated T1 Lines.
With level of high speed internet and fast computers, the number of video confrencing and "video chat" applications is exploding. I would love some feedback as to what people are using these days:
Drop me a line in the
Video Chat Room
and let me know your experiances, and what your using.
JLS (Editor) Also see my A history of video conferencing Page.
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This article covers two free video streaming formats.
I will be putting together a article on video podcasting next.
Cost is $799 for the 100GB model and $599 for the 40GB.
Softier IP-Set Top Box Softier IP-STB Platform Hardware
(ATA, Firewire and Wi-Fi are available on custom versions)
 Another View here The Perspecta display is a goldfish bowl like device that displays moving images in such a way that they seem to "float" within the display. To display the image, software inside the Perspecta chops a 3D model generated by the computer into 198 separate pieces, like slices of cake, which are then projected onto a rotating plastic screen in quick succession by a graphics accelerator that feeds image slices to an optical system mounted below the screen. The result looks to the viewer like a 3D image composed of 100 million "volume pixels" or "voxels".
 see Mechanical view Too bad it $40,000 US
New Scientist
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