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silicon.com old school
Comment This, and the use of video streaming got the publicity machine excited about the potential of the multi-media coverage silicon.com could offer. It's a real privilege to be involved in a new medium and the experience gained by everyone on the... [07 Jul 2008]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment By Christmas we will have a streaming solution for Mac and Linux users. As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible for dragging the Beeb into the digital age... [30 Oct 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment The Slingbox costs less than £100 and uses a Texas Instruments DSP to encode video digitally in real-time from component sources - 480i to 480p, 720p and 1080i - and transmit it as protected Windows Media Video (WMV) format for streaming at... [24 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer
Leader The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms.iPlayer is currently only available as a download service for Windows XP, despite the BBC... [19 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Every car journey made to the video store to rent a DVD produces more carbon than hosting the film in a data centre and streaming it on-demand. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of reducing consumption. [21 Sep 2007]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment The tentatively titled iTV is a device for streaming media from a Mac or a PC to a television. A media centre device has long been predicted by analysts, media outlets and Mac enthusiast sites alike. The most likely reason Apple took the unusual... [09 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: High-speed Korea
Comment Video streaming was a dream! The vast majority of the infrastructure providing internet connectivity employs copper in the local loop, and talking with those responsible for the rollout of 100Mbps 'fibre to the home', I gained the impression that... [06 Sep 2006]
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment There is no guarantee of delivery time, for example, simply what might be thought of as 'best effort' delivery for those messages which might form streaming media or voice over IP traffic - and for every other form of data, from email to web pages... [27 Jan 2005]
Q&A: What will be at the centre of the digital home?
Comment Companies like Dell, HP, and software behemoth Microsoft envision the PC to be the cornerstone of digital home entertainment, capable of everything from video recording to wirelessly streaming music and pictures from desktops to stereos and... [17 Dec 2004]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment In the US, Sprint PCS is making $2m a month on its two mobile TV services - Sprint TV (downloads) and MobiTV (streaming). To subsidise video downloads, streaming and broadcasting, advertising will in all likelihood be needed to compliment any pay... [01 Dec 2004]
IM the way to beat Apple in online music?
Comment One label executive, who asked not to be named, said: "If I'm streaming my collection to someone else, and no one's getting compensated for it, that's not OK. The music store is already available in its Windows Media Player 10 and MSN Messenger is... [23 Sep 2004]
Through the fog... mobile tariffs
Comment This applies to voice calls and video calls and could in the future be applied to streaming media - movies, music and so on. The early 3G services also offer video calls, video streaming and the potential to download music. [14 Aug 2003]
What's the fuss about... broadband communications
Comment Broadband is as much a state of mind as a technology, defined in terms of what it enables rather than what it is - the transmission of sufficient quantities of information to enable such applications as multimedia streaming (think of using a... [08 Nov 2002]
The Ovum View: The 3G World Cup - what's the score?
Comment For related Ovum research see our reports, MMS and SMS: Multimedia Strategies for Mobile Messaging and Streaming Media: Commercial Opportunities, and the Mobile@Ovum Advisory Services. The industry has certainly come a long way since France 1998... [31 May 2002]
'And Yahoo! must score...'
Comment And that means live streaming. Kirch, the troubled German media company with a mandate to resell World Cup rights, presumably decided to keep its wealthiest clients sweet and keep Yahoo! Technology firms are not alone in basking in the reflected... [18 May 2002]
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