Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Update - Flash Coming to iPhone

Scott Gentry | 03/19- 06:51 AM

It was only last week when there were public remarks from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs saying Flash wasn’t ready for the iPhone.  We reported earlier this week, about Adobe’s initial reaction to Jobs coments.  What a difference a week makes huh? 

This week it was announced that Microsoft has licensed Flash technology for Windows Mobile Devices.  Today, Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen announced during a conference call regarding Adobe’s first-quarter earnings, that Adobe “will work with Apple” to make sure that Flash applications can run on the iPhone.

As developers, this should further expand our mobile delivery options.  That has to be a good thing.

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Steve Jobs Trashes Flash for iPhone

Scott Gentry | 03/05- 08:41 AM

Says it isn’t likely to find its way to the iPhone soon

I find that news for video developers for the small screen very disappointing.  Particularly when YouTube works just fine on my iPhone.  Steve goes into depth explaining some technical reasons for the lack of Flash, but in the end basically pushes the ball into Adobe’s court to make it happen.

Without trying to pick sides here, there seems to be a fast growing adoption of the iPhone and after this Thursday’s SDK expected announcements, the iPhone expansion will seemingly continue at perhaps an even faster pace.  So where does that leave video developers for mobile applications?  There’s Quicktime, and perhaps that’s the real point here.  Is Apple simply not working hard on Flash acceptance because it wants greater use of Quicktime?  I wouldn’t doubt it, but what do I know?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

New Model, Same Content

Frank Capria | 02/27- 05:29 AM

Quarterlife premieres tonight. A not very successful web series jumps to network TV. 

Quarterlife is a series about those people you couldn’t stand in college and didn’t care what happened to them afterwards. As Friends proved, that can be a successful formula. What makes Quarterlife interesting is that the series, originally rejected by ABC, began its life on the web. What makes it really interesting is that it wasn’t terribly successful—many episodes drew only 100,000 or so viewers. 

Monday, February 25, 2008

No - the Format War is Just Beginning

Scott Gentry | 02/25- 07:45 AM

HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray was yesterday’s news.  Today the bigger battle may actually be Adobe’s Air vs. Microsoft’s Silverlight

Let’s face it, we all saw the Blu-Ray battle won some time ago.  Perhaps a far more interesting battle is heating up between rivals Microsoft and Adobe on delivering content via a graphical open run-time platform or via a web browser.

Adobe has tremendous distribution in Flash technology as it’s nearly everywhere.  Microsoft’s Silverlight leverages the graphical ability of their browser.  Adobe’s Air, is a distributable runtime platform that’s no longer in beta as of this morning.  You can download it here for Windows and Mac.

*Updated*

While perusing the net this evening I ran across something interesting on Tim Sneath’s blog.  Never been there before but was searching for Silverlight and MTV.  Actually trying to track down a rumor that Microsoft is offering Silverlight around and folks - prominent folks like MTV, are passing in favor of Flash.  So as I read his blog post about Silverlight and MTV I then clicked over to his example, which is Jackass 2.5 the movie supposedly being hosted by Limelight Networks and Microsoft.  Well, interestingly enough, it’s Flash.  Hmmmm.  Looks like I have more digging to do.

We’ll be watching this very closely as you can imagine not only here, but also in our soon to launch WebDevCoalition.  For more info, check out BetaNews.com

As a disclaimer - Adobe is paid advertiser of this site, and Microsoft isn’t...yet.  (maybe never now)

Sunday, February 24, 2008

HPA Tech Retreat - Day 3, etc.

Adam Wilt | 02/24- 03:15 PM

Cameras, compression & concatenation; displays, distribution, & demos

Fox Network’s Yves Montane showing one of many display performance plots.

Day 2 Revisited

Larry Thorpe and John Galt argued for a more nuanced view of camera resolution, such as MTF (contrast) readings at 200, 400, 600, and 800 TVl/ph, as well as a subjective description, in addition to the standard measurement of the limiting resolution and report on aliasing (see Day 2 pictures). I will be modifying my review methodology accordingly.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

HPA Tech Retreat - Day 1

Adam Wilt | 02/20- 08:34 PM

3D, AudioScope, CES, and the Analog Shutdown

On this, the first “real” day of the HPA Tech Retreat, we were treated to 3D cinema demos and discussions, a CES review, a phased-array mic for sports recording, and more.

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