Entries tagged with blu-ray - Channel 10

My NAB Presentations

benwaggoner — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:46:00 GMT

As promised, here are the final decks for my presentations at NAB.

Encoding for the Next Generation: MPEG-2/H.264/VC-1

This session was part of the all-day Next Generation DVD track sponsored by the DVD Association.

I talked about the various options for and issues in encoding for high definition, focusing on Blu-ray but also talking about digital downloads. It's apparently become somewhat infamous, with mentions of it over at Doom9 and AVSForum. Although now that I look, they're both from the same guy...

Here's the deck: Encoding for the Next Generation.pdf

In-Depth Microsoft Silverlight

This was a three-hour media-focused overview of Silverlight and the Expression tools. It took a look at encoding and hosting video and audio assets for integration, and incorporating those into a Silverlight Rich Interactive Application. I used a shorter version of the same presentation for the "Successfully Set up your own Streaming Media Solutions in a Worship Environment" track, so I won't bother to include both.

Here's the deck: In-Depth Microsoft Silverlight.pdf

I've been blogging versions of the tutorials. So far I've got:

Tutorial 1: Default Settings (no blog post there, as it's just a demo of the pretty-good quality that EEv2 can do without changing ANY settings, automatically adapting to the 480i 16:9 source).

Tutorial 2: Movie Trailer at 2 Mbps

Tutorial 3: Encoding screen recordings (less the navigation demo in the online version)

Now I need to figure out a good .pptx to Silverlight conversion workflow.

And if you like this stuff, don't forget about my class at Stanford in June.

LG Shows off First Ever Blu-Ray/HDDVD player

Tina — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:52:00 GMT

I stopped by the LG booth at CES this year because first, I'm an LG fan and second they were showing off a one-hundred inch plasma TV. There was a lot of buzz about the LG player that will house two competetive formats Blu-Ray and HDDVD. There is no clear winner in the HDDVD, Blu-Ray battle and LG is hoping to capitalize on the consumers indecisiveness. But, you better be ready to shell out the cash because this baby is on it's way to the US and it will have a $1200.00 price tag.

HD-DVD and Xbox the early winners in next-gen format wars

Jesse — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:07:00 GMT

Remember back in May when the question was which next-gen disc format would take the lead and own the market for removable storage, video games, and movies? Well now it appears we're starting to see some signals that HD-DVD will soon be dancing around the ring in triumph.

Over at Digital Trends, Rob Enderle is calling the fight for HD-DVD after watching Sony fumble their launch of Blu-Ray with higher-priced players, as well as the bad-to-worse release of the PS3. The killing blow however, is said to come from the launch of our own Xbox HD-DVD player, which stands to make HD-DVD a reality for more people than it's competitor.