Sonic Jamming Signals

Category dmr podcast
In this Episode we review the following:
- Sony's video site Crackle.com
- Apple has turned iTunes into a social jukebox with the new iTunes DJ feature in iTunes 8.1
- Bestinclass.com - a site tohelp you choose the right digital camera for your price, purpose and level
- The Roku Box from Netflix will be Getting Up To 10 New Channels
- Rolling Stone interview with James Hetfield on Guitar Hero: Metallica
- A Preview of Apple's iPhone 3.0 OS
- A Tutorial on recording and converting audio cassettes to CDs and MP3s

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All,

Episode 9 is close to being done but I am leaving for Columbus due to a death in the family. Will be back this weekend and hopefully have the episode done early next week.

Shine On,
Dave

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Category videos tools

All of us have hard drives and tapes full of them. Blurry, shakey, pilelated videos we've shot on video cameras, digital cameras and cell phones. Well, MotionDSP has released a product calledvReveal that will help you turn those bad clips into great ones.

The patented technology is clever. In a second of video, there are 60 snapshots, or frames, that form the individual slices of the video. The software analyzes a scene by looking at all of the previous frames that have played and the frames that are about to play. It then finds the sharpest features of each frame and uses those in the enhanced video. The result of this “multi-frame analysis” is improved resolution for the whole video.

The software is currently selling for $49.99 and can be purchased from their website

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Category broadband

Ericcson has achieved 500Mbps data transfer rates in a live Demo of their "vectorized" VDSL2 technology.

The great news here is they used existing copper wire, which is what DSL and phones run on now. Its also noe of the most prominent mediums in the world. So, other than the fact that they were able to get 9.5Gbps trasnfer, there wouoldn't need to be a lot of repulling of cable between you and the phone company to get it to you. That is usually the biggest factor on getting newer broadband connections to people. Has the cable been laid yet between you and the pole. But this technology uses the wires already there.

There are a few other obstacles to overcome as of yet, like distance, but keep your eyes on this one when the broadband stimulus plan starts to get worked on.

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Category videos distribution

At the South By Southwest Music Festival held in Austin, Texas last March, IMDb founder Col Needham  made it clear thatIMDb wants to bring streaming services to its 57 million unique visitors it sees each month.

Col started out talking about the history of IMdb - from its pre web days, to turning into a dot com to being bought by Amazon. And what he says makes sense - you have this many people visiting your site every month looking for movie and film info. Why not give them the ability ot stream it from the site with the click of a button from the page they are already on.

Needham admitted to the difficulty in pulling this off. Not only do a lot of these films and shows not exist anymore, but the ones that do may not be in a streaming format. And then there's the licensing. IMDb doesn't deal with just one or two studios - its goal is to index EVERY movie or tv show ever made. Some of those places aren't even aorund to approve the content being streamed even if it were available.

But its clear that they are already moving forward on this goal. They started putting up content in September. Most of the content comes from Hulu and other providers. They have a few thousand full length films, over 12,000 TV episodes and lots of other clips ralted to the movies like trailers, news and other interesting tidbits.

1.3 Million titles is a long way from a few thousand. But if there were ever a site that it makes sense to connect two similiar content providers together, its IMDb and the tv/movie industry

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Category videos Gerd Leonhard the future
This is a video from the Plugg 2009 Conference, held in Brussles. It's of Gerd Leonhard talking about the future of music and media. Gerd is a "futurist" so he gets paid to study markets and trends and tell comapnies where he thinks things will be in the near future. He brings up some interesting points here

The Future Of Music And Media from Plugg Conference on Vimeo.

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Category HD Audio

HDTracks is an online music store consisting mainly of independant labels whose genres range from jazz to classical to world to rock. They offer several formats (320 kbps MP3, CD-quality (44.1kHz/16 bit), and/or full, high-resolution DVD-Audio quality (96kHz/24 bit). All tracks are DRM Free and are offered using the FLAC format. All albums include the liner notes in PDF as well. The site frequently offers free download samplers (currently its "Gibson Presents: Hot Tones in High Definition ").

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