Interesting Stuff 2008-05-22
Post categories: round up
| 10:16 UK time, Thursday, 22 May 2008
Ashley Highfield was part of a panel discussion on "The Future of Online Video" at Google Zeitgeist earlier this week. A video of the discussion has now been :
"Boys and girls stay in to play on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's virtual island Adventure Rock": a in The Times.
"Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Today Programme shutters message board" .
Multimedia codecs are highly proprietary and suffer from serious patent-encumbrance issues that largely preclude open source implementations. Car manufacturers will still have to license those codecs from third parties in order to support the audio and video formats that are widely used by consumers. Major players in the automotive industry could potentially combat this issue by encouraging the content industry to move towards unencumbered codecs like Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Dirac
[I think I understand this one -Ed] from about computers in cars ("Intel wants to pimp your ride with prodigious penguin power").
from Digital Spy. Broadcast magazine has iPlayer programmes in April.
And there's the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Sound Index and on the Backstage mailing list.
Nick Reynolds is editor, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Internet blog.
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