Pundit Ex Machina: Video Blogging May Prove a Serious Challange to Cable TV
Watching Jeff Jarvis do his video blogging, I am struck by how good the quality of the work is. Not so much the technical mastery his anchorman look, but the quality of the content, and the easy watchability of the short “vlogs”, as he calls them
Including 500 courses streaming (or so I hear).
$20 round trip.. Can’t be beat
Yahoo! News – Verizon Wireless Hits Higher Speeds
“will offer typical rates of 300 kilobits per second to 500 kbps, with burst rates up to 2 mbps”
With WiFi everywhere, who is going to pay $79/month for this?
Optibase Unveils New MPEG-4 Encoder
One MPEG MovieMaker 400 board has the ability to encode two simultaneous MPEG-4 ISMA channels and each channel can be streamed in three different encoding bitrates. Up to six MPEG MovieMaker 400 boards can be plugged in the same PC providing a total output of 36 encoded streams from 12 different sources. As a member of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA), Optibase is working together with other industry leaders to ensure compatibility. Currently, the MPEG MovieMaker 400 has the ability to stream to generic players such as QuickTime, RealOne and Windows Media players (using Plug-ins).
MPEG MovieMaker will be available for shipment in Q4 of 2003. For additional information on MPEG MovieMaker 400, please send an email to info@optibase.com.