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Above is a sample of how Ken and I were posting ViodiTV video’s back in 2006. YouTube had been around for about a year, and would be acquired by Google later that year. Ken and I had been posting video’s since 2005, and more so since March of 2006 with the Content Pavilion at TelecomNEXT, and we were understanding the benefits and pitfalls of streaming video. It was great to have control over our videos, but streaming and storage were expensive, and sites like YouTube, Revver, BlipTV, and Brightcove were better connected to the CDN’s (Content Distribution Networks) than our hosting services, so it was tough to say no to free bandwidth and storage with better streaming - thus the story begins as we progressed from 320×240 low bitrate video to HD video in less than 3 years.

So yes, I am notalgic today as I stumbled into these "old" video’s. I was looking back to create a video to highlight the scope and depth of what we have done with ViodiTV. Instead I realized how amazing the distribution and availability of video has progressed in 3 short years. Today  I’m more concerned about free-riding aggregators than streaming video, and I’m nostalgic for a time past by… in a very short time.

This barely touches the surface of what’s to come in the next 3 years, so I’m excited to think what we’ll be doing then.

I.P. (Intellectual Property, that is) rights owned by multiple parties are often one of the reasons standards take so long to move from concept to commercial reality.  In this video interview, Jason Johnson, of Via Licensing, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, explains their newly formed partnership with the IEEE.  This partnership promises the expeditious creation of licensing pools, allowing standards to be commercialized much sooner than traditional approaches.  The upshot of this effort should be even faster innovation by consumer electronic companies to bring us new gizmos and widgets.  

The Parks Associates conferences are good ones for looking at what’s new from at the intersection of technology and consumer needs and provides a glimpse of what might be. In our ongoing video coverage from last month’s Connections conference event, Kurt Scherf, Vice President of Research for Parks Associates discusses how devices in the home are becoming more web-like and the on-going challenges of connecting these broadband devices.

Watch this overview video for a summary of what ViodiTV has been doing over the past six years… from National shows with former press secretary Dee Dee Myers at OPASTCO, to NTCA, RICA, and NAB, to regional shows like IP-Possibilities, the Tech and Marketing symposiums, and CableNext to Connections and states like MTA, WSTA, and the list goes… 

In additon to event coverage the video highlights product reviews, promotional videos, 3D animation work, special effects, licensing music, plus a some fun time items.

The video gives testimony to our capabilities in video production and how two people can be efficient, effective, and creative with time. Contact Roger for more information and pricing…

Matthew Brohn, Product Manager Sony Creative Software, discusses some of the strengths of Vegas Pro video editing, and what’s new with Vegas 9… things like small footprint, direct editing of AVCHD and XDCAM, plus new effects. The video includes screen captures of real-time editing in Vegas.

I am not a big gadget person – really. I have had the G1 Phone for a couple of months and other than the electronic whoopee cushion application and the Shazam application (listens to music and identifies the song and artist), all of the applications I have downloaded from the Android Market have been ones intended to enhance productivity. So, at the Connections Conference, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the latest version of the Android software enables the recording of videos on my G1 Phone.

The video quality of the G1 can be marginal, especially in low light conditions and especially compared to the Creative or Flip camera I normally use. It cannot be beat for efficiency and ease of distributing the video either on YouTube or via email. The only thing I haven’t figured out is why the share feature doesn’t always work, which is probably just as well, as the world doesn’t need to see most of the videos I take.

The following video was shot while taking an early morning walk through downtown Colorado Springs. When I started my walk, my only plan was to get a little exercise in the brisk Colorado air. As I saw the various monuments and museums, along with the natural beauty of Pike’s Peak, I felt inspired to share what I saw with others, particularly since the upcoming OPASTCO Summer Convention finds its way to Colorado Springs next month. Additionally, I decided it would be kind of fun to present my impromptu creation during my presentation on Local Content (I didn’t).

Hopefully, we will see you in Colorado Springs at the OPASTCO event (July 25th-29th).
 

ViodiTV interview video’s from CONNECTIONS 2009. Ken Pyle interviewing, Roger Bindl camera and Editing.

Stay tuned as video’s are added. The complete list will include 4Home, Accedo Broadband, Affinegy, Allegro, Austin Energy, Blackarrow, Bluephone, Bunchball, Celeno, Direct Energy, Eyecon, Icron, Irdeto, Parks Associates (Kurt Scherf, Tricia Parks), PlumChoice, Popcorn, Qualcomm, Sigma Designs, Silicon Image, Singleclick, Sony Pictures, Entone, SupportSoft, Synacor, Telecordia, uControl, Valens, Viacube, Via Licensing, Zilog, and Zodiac.

Ken Pyle interviews Fred King of PlumChoice, at CONNECTIONS 2009 in Santa Clara, CA. King explains how they work through service providers and consumer electronic manufacturers to help them help their customers. King suggests that now is a good time to provide remote support services, as people are opting for more frugal behavior and as a result are looking at fixing instead of replacing technology.

This week, Qualcomm announced the doubling of wireless home networking speeds with its chip technology that integrates 4×4 MIMO technology to provide throughputs of up to 600 Mb/s.  Jason Ellis of Qualcomm demonstrates this high speed solution in this brief video.

Rob Tobias of Silicon Image discusses the newly announced HDMI 1.4 specification.  This new specification promises to add networking capabilities to what was traditionally a digital video specification.