Monday, May 30, 2005

XPresenter Demo

http://www.vertigo.net/prod_xpresenter_demo.asp

Works from within PowerPoint

Digital Matrix Studio

www.digitalmatrixstudio.com

Creative multimedia and interactive media design

http://www.digitalmatrixstudio.com/portfolio-interactive.html

Sony's plans for digital film & TV distribution

Sony Pictures Entertainment unveils plans for digital distribution of film and TV content
Apr 27, 2005 1:34 PM, Digital Signage Update e-newsletter

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has unveiled its plan to streamline the distribution of its film and television content by leveraging a series of new digital entertainment technology and services created by Ascent Media Group (AMG) and HP.

By digitizing its library of media assets – both film and TV – SPE can create content once and deliver it to its partners and customers many times, in any standard or format, more securely and quickly than before.

SPE’s alliance with AMG and HP will transition the formatting, management and distribution of its vast portfolio of media assets from traditional analog format to a tapeless digital environment.

SPE selected AMG to provide the end-to-end technology and services required to create, manage and store the studio’s digital library. AMG oversees SPE’s file-based digital asset management archive. The library may be searched and reviewed and the assets repurposed with the appropriate metadata for all of the studio’s post-theatrical outputs; manage the electronic and physical distribution of assets to and from this digital archive; oversee the ingestion of electronic assets; as well as create and archive the assets to data tape for back-up.

AMG and SPE chose HP’s Digital Media Platform (DMP) as its technology foundation. The HP DMP is an open standards-based framework consisting of enterprise software, hardware and services that allows media companies to digitize, store, process, manage, distribute and archive complex media assets.

For more information, visit www.sonypictures.com, www.ascentmedia.com and www.hp.com

Friday, May 20, 2005

Yahoo! Help - Yahoo! Buzz Index Help

Yahoo! Help - Yahoo! Buzz Index Help: "What is a buzz mover?
Buzz movers are the subjects with the greatest percentage increase in buzz score from one day to the next.
Significant increases in buzz score do not necessarily indicate huge overall interest in a subject. Greatest overall buzz is reflected by the list of buzz leaders.
For example, a subject that increases its buzz score from 4.0 to 12.0 would have a one-day buzz move of 200%, which might qualify it for inclusion on the list of buzz movers. However, that same subject, with a buzz of 12.0, might not make that day's list of buzz leaders."

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

THX: Making the Magic Happen

THX: Making the Magic Happen: "THX: Making the Magic Happen "

MSR, Inc. [ Products: 5.1 Audio Toolkit DVD ]

MSR, Inc. [ Products: 5.1 Audio Toolkit DVD ]: "5.1 Audio Toolkit DVD"

Creative's New X-Fi Audio Processor - ExtremeTech

Creative's New X-Fi Audio Processor Previewed at ExtremeTech: "Creative's New X-Fi Audio Processor "

Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot

Hacking Windows XP: Speed Up Your Boot: "Windows XP includes a boot defragmenter but it is a little tricky to get it to run. By default, it is run only in the background and cannot be started directly by a user. After your computer has been idle for some time between 5 and 30 minutes, the system will read the prefetcher's boot data and start the defrag. The system defrag is run in the background and is invisible to the user. Eventually, if you leave your computer on long enough, it will be defragment the boot files
Microsoft has a very talented team working for them and they even took into consideration that often your system boot changes. For example, you might install an updated device driver or add new hardware. To solve this problem, the system will re-defragment the boot files every three days.
Tip:
Windows keeps track of the last time it optimized the boot file so that it can calculate how often it should run the boot defrag. If you are interesting in finding when the last time was that the boot defrag was run, open up regedit and navigate to: 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Prefetcher' and then look for the key named 'LastDiskLayoutTimeString'. "

"DisplayPort" Could Introduce Protected Displays

"DisplayPort" Could Introduce Protected Displays

Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) said Monday that several component and electronics OEMs are in the process of finalizing a standard unified interface for LCD, plasma, CRT and projection displays, called "DisplayPort". The timetable calls for the standard to be submitted during the third quarter, with products likely rolling out in early 2006.

DisplayPort could also indicate an end run around Silicon Image, which owns patents used in HDMI, suggested Jon Peddie, principal analyst with Jon Peddie Research.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

RUXCON

RUXCON: "RUXCON 2005RUXCON has been confirmed for Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of October 2005! The venue will be UTS once again. If you attended RUXCON 2004 please help us improve the quality of the conference by sending feedback to staff ruxcon org au.
RUXCON is proud to announce its call for papers for RUXCON 2005. The dead line for submissions is the 31st of August"