What if rather than once a year, Austin were the year-round capitol of not only live music, but of startup culture and tech innovation? Not just a destination for discovery, but a home for it? We could do it. That is, if we had the bandwidth. A few weeks ago, Time Warner Cable’s CFO Irene
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Vincent Laforet – the DP who was at the front of the wave that became DSLR filmmaking – teased us a few days ago with the following: Nearly five years ago I posted a blog post titled “Something Very Interesting is coming to this blog…and to our industry” – and that was the post
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All the #PS4 streaming and sharing: that’s on the hardware. Devs don’t have to do anything special to their game. #GDC — Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy) March 27, 2013 On the gaming side, the above isn’t big news, beyond the obvious advantage that we won’t have 600 different streaming/sharing implementations done by 600 different devs.
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It actually exists! And looks cool! Matrox issued a press release today, firming up details on the Monarch: From any HDMI input source such as a camera or switcher, Matrox Monarch HD generates an H.264-encoded stream compliant with RTSP or RTMP protocol. While encoding the video at bitrates suitable for live streaming, Matrox Monarch
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This week BitTorrent announced the open beta of BitTorrent Live, a new(ish) peer-to-peer protocol for live streaming. In their own words: BitTorrent Live is a peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. It’s based on the principles of the BitTorrent protocol. And it’s designed to make real-time reporting, and open expression accessible to all. BitTorrent Live eliminates bandwidth,
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The buzz around Microsoft and Sony’s next consoles is building steadily. We’ve got the Sony event on February 20th, which almost everyone agrees will be the Playstation 4 announcement, and daily news on Xbox 720 rumors, specs, and capabilities. It’s almost a given that at least one if not both of these consoles will launch
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“Should we do it in the cloud?” I get this question a lot. And with good reason – cloud computing has turned massive computational tasks into simple clicks on an interface or calls to an API. So when you’re building out a data management infrastructure, you absolutely need to ask this question. Last week Amazon
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It’s been an issue for years: you have an external drive, but it’s formatted for a Mac, and you need to read it on a PC. Or it’s reversed: a PC drive that you need to write to from a Mac. Sure, you could format it as FAT32 – but there’s a 4GB file-size limit,
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A very important legal opinion was just handed down in a case regarding use of Twitter images by mainstream media: basically, that posting an image to Twitter doesn’t grant the world a license to use it as they see fit. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. I mean, just making something publicly available
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Unless you’ve been living under a technology rock (which I guess would just be a normal rock), you know that the Consumer Electronics Show is happening this week. And every time that CES happens, we’re inundated with announcements of new TV’s with fancy cutting-edge features: 3D, 4K, OLED, LMNOP, QWERTY, and even lasers. This year,
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