Chris Forrester at Rapid TV News with more on the BBC HD bitrate problems
BBC admits HDTV is being squeezed - Rapid TV News: "The BBC's Roly Keating, formally the Controller of BBC 2 but now the broadcaster's head of archive content, has confirmed that the BBC has cut back its HDTV transmission bit-rate by almost 40%."
Monday 30 November 2009
Sunday 22 November 2009
Incoming news
A busy old time, with most of the stuff posted about on 12 November still ongoing. Plus there's a Sony press conference on Wednesday that the company's been trailing for a month or two now which promises news that will redefine the word 'significant'. Well, maybe not, but it does promise not to be run of the mill at least...
The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart - HDTV - Gizmodo
Because there are flowcharts and there are flowcharts
The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart - HDTV - Gizmodo
The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart - HDTV - Gizmodo
Friday 13 November 2009
BBC turns down the flow
Chris Forrester on trouble at t'mill.
BBC cuts HDTV bit-rate - Rapid TV News: "Now we know why the BBC’s HDTV images are suffering. Ordinary viewers have been complaining about the BBC’s picture quality, and there’s little doubt amongst the industry’s ‘golden eyes’ that the bit-rate spigot is being tightened."
BBC cuts HDTV bit-rate - Rapid TV News: "Now we know why the BBC’s HDTV images are suffering. Ordinary viewers have been complaining about the BBC’s picture quality, and there’s little doubt amongst the industry’s ‘golden eyes’ that the bit-rate spigot is being tightened."
BBC turns wick down
Chris Forrester on trouble at t'mill.
BBC cuts HDTV bit-rate - Rapid TV News: "Now we know why the BBC’s HDTV images are suffering. Ordinary viewers have been complaining about the BBC’s picture quality, and there’s little doubt amongst the industry’s ‘golden eyes’ that the bit-rate spigot is being tightened."
BBC cuts HDTV bit-rate - Rapid TV News: "Now we know why the BBC’s HDTV images are suffering. Ordinary viewers have been complaining about the BBC’s picture quality, and there’s little doubt amongst the industry’s ‘golden eyes’ that the bit-rate spigot is being tightened."
Thursday 12 November 2009
20121? It's going to be a long three years
A potentially useful infographic to be deployed and referred to at any point over the next three years when Some Idiot in the Pub starts banging on about how the world is going to end in 2012.
It's not.
Honest.
The only significance to 2012 is a) that the likes of me will have been writing about the broadcasting of the Olympics for what will feel like forever by then and b) the events of Rush's seminal 2112 are still 100 years in the future ;-)
Anyway: here's the link: 2012: The End Of The World? | Information Is Beautiful
Current projects on the boil
Quick round up on what's keeping the iMac humming
Broadcast - OB year-end round-up feature
ISE Daily - Working on preshow news
Sony - Corporate case study
Project X - Sorry, if I told you I'd have to kill you. But suffice to say it's webby.
Misc - Couple of press releases for various clients
And before I wrote all that down I was thinking it was a quiet month so far!
Broadcast - OB year-end round-up feature
ISE Daily - Working on preshow news
Sony - Corporate case study
Project X - Sorry, if I told you I'd have to kill you. But suffice to say it's webby.
Misc - Couple of press releases for various clients
And before I wrote all that down I was thinking it was a quiet month so far!
Monday 9 November 2009
Foursquare - 5 x 5?
Feel really quite torn by this. On one hand, being someone of a fairly geographic and map-oriented persuasion, being able to geographically track my friends and my life is immensely appealing. On the other though, at what point do you stop experiencing the world fully unless it's foursquared, facebooked or tweeted - nevermind the privacy issues.
It's the consumption of tourist spaces by photographs taken to the next level. The experiential nature of being somewhere has to be validated with evidence which, as it moves towards the realtime web, means that that validation inevitably dilutes the actual experience of being there.
As to foursquare, no iPhone and working from home kind of puts the mockers on that, but I do kind of wonder for how long.
foursquare
It's the consumption of tourist spaces by photographs taken to the next level. The experiential nature of being somewhere has to be validated with evidence which, as it moves towards the realtime web, means that that validation inevitably dilutes the actual experience of being there.
As to foursquare, no iPhone and working from home kind of puts the mockers on that, but I do kind of wonder for how long.
foursquare
Foursquare
Feel really quite torn by this. On one hand, being someone of a fairly geographic and map-oriented persuasion, being able to geographically track my friends and my life is immensely appealing. On the other though, at what point do you stop experiencing the world fully unless it's foursquared, facebooked or tweeted - nevermind the privacy issues.
It's the consumption of tourist spaces by photographs taken to the next level. The experiential nature of being somewhere has to be validated with evidence which, as it moves towards the realtime web, means that that validation inevitably dilutes the actual experience of being there.
As to foursquare, no iPhone and working from home kind of puts the mockers on that, but I do kind of wonder for how long.
foursquare
It's the consumption of tourist spaces by photographs taken to the next level. The experiential nature of being somewhere has to be validated with evidence which, as it moves towards the realtime web, means that that validation inevitably dilutes the actual experience of being there.
As to foursquare, no iPhone and working from home kind of puts the mockers on that, but I do kind of wonder for how long.
foursquare
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