Compression products at NAB2004
At this year's NAB show, there were companies, big and small, showing off tools of the trade using compression. MPEG is clearly the standard of choice
NAB Replay - Compression
The large investment by companies in compression technologies is finally beginning to bear fruit.
Download: Webcasting: Profit or pit?
OK, so it's mid-2002, and you are wondering how Webcasting is doing. Is now the right time to jump in? The topic of whether it is a profitable business or a pit can be summed up in four letters — CARP. No, not the fish — the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel.
Streaming for profits
Come one, come all. Step right up and hear about a technology that costs an arm and a leg, has an increasing variable cost for every new user, and doesn't generate any profits.
Eye candy for your senses
With all the gazillion Web sites out there, how do you make yours stand out? What will be special about your Web environment that attracts users and potential customers to your locale? To find the answer, look to high-end retail marketing.
Tracking traffic
Over the past few months I have been giving this topic a lot of thought. We all use information every day, and without it we would have a terrible time trying to run our businesses.
System security
Is there really such a thing as true system security? When asking this question, the first issues that must be answered are "what do you want protected?" and "what level of inconvenience are your users willing to tolerate?"
Selecting a streaming partner
When selecting a streaming partner, no fly-by-night operation will do. For the past few years I have been writing about streaming media and interactive
Class-based queuing
At Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories the idea of class-based queuing (CBQ) was developed to better manage the growing bandwidth needs of enterprises. This
Streaming vs. file download
With a downloadable file the content owner is much more vulnerable. This month, a question that has plagued/delighted me for the past two years: Which
Preproduction issues in streaming
If you have to shoot in DV and need to deliver in many different formats, cut and edit in the native format, and then only transcode the final material.
Commercial insertion
It is no longer enough to bring eyes and/or ears to advertisers they are demanding qualified and clearly segmented audiences. At this year's NAB, it was
Audio and video compression
If there's not a way to describe, characterize and find content, does it really exist? Those of you who have been reading my columns for a while know
Production room infrastructure
The added benefit of using this type of ATM spoke/hub topology was that any single island could be upgraded as technology forces networking at higher
Multicast
What is multicasting? Any description of multicast must start with unicast. Unicast is what many of us know as the basis for World Wide Web communications.
