Article #9

Matrixstream—A company into VOD and IPTV will offer 1080p channels.
SWEET!

Article #8

I found this article in Wired. This guy makes some pretty funny (but true) points about the real world versus the virtual world, and how the real one is slowly becoming virtual.

Video Production Company

These are all the things I could think of that I could get for $25 Gs. It would be pretty sweet to have all this killer equipment. Well here's the breakdown.

• $3300 HDRFX1 Sony High Definition Digital Handycam Camcorder
• $3100 HVR-A1 HiDef Camcorder
• $400=$200 x 2 Tripod by DynaTran™ x2
• $3000 Panasonic BT-H1700 17" Color Monitor
• $250 Azden SGM-1000 Shotgun Microphone
• $1300 Final Cut (5)Studio/Motion2/SoundtrackPro/DVD Studio Pro/Compressor
• $2260 24v Dedolight lighting kit
• $1000=$500 x 2 Cardioid Lav Mic Wireless
• $2000=$1000 x 2 23" motitors
• $6800=$2500 Mac Pro+$1600 (+2250GB Total Hard drive Space)+$2700 (+8GB Memory)
• $130 Leather Chair
• $70 "L" Desk

Which gives me $1390 left over for cables and other miscellanies things.

More On Product Life Cycles

I don't know if this means anything, but finding more equipment for my production company I found this article on life cycles that I wish I saw before Thursday. I'll always be learning, and now I just learned more of the stages of a cycle.
And look, I added this picture! ------------->

Concepts HW

• A histogram is a graph representing the shadows and highlights of a picture. It shows the amounts of all the different shades of a picture. In Photoshop we learned how to manipulate this to get a better picture.
• White balancing is basically telling the camera what "white" is and building all the other colors around it. I found a great link from DVXuser.com about using different colors for white balancing for some neat affects. Really cool.
  

Article #7

Youtube named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine.

The Long Tail

I really liked this Long Tail idea when I first heard of it. The concept is that the the sum of all the “unpopular” greatly out weigh the popular. For instance in the TV world the big 4 (yes, I count FOX), have the most popular and highest paid shows, but there’s far more viewers and money spent in the niche cable channels combined. Right now I don’t see how it could help me as a producer. Ok, I take that back. At first I was thinking about trying to hit all the less-knowns at once instead of competing with the big boys. But no, there is plenty of people to find my content if I aim for the people looking for it.
Some places I looked at was wikipedia and wired.

Brightcove

“The free service allows video programmers to build a commercial Internet television channel, syndicate it to other sites, generate advertising revenue and distribute the video over Brightcove's own distribution site.” This is an exript from internetnews. I find myself struggling to put thoughts into words.
The difference between Brightcove and the all-powerful YouTube is money can be made Brightcove. They share 50/50 the profits that are gained from advertisers with the content creators and 30/70 for pay-media, whereas the 30% goes to Brightcove. The sight is geared toward professionals and ‘prosumers’ wanting to get their content out there, and costumers looking for the right content. Because of all this they scrutinize all their incoming content, dividing it into categories for advertisers, and checking for copyright and content issues. For the serious producers.

Article #6

This isn't so much about technology in the media world, but a lawsuit between NBC and Emerson Electric about a garbage disposal mishap. It happened on one of my favorite shows, Heroes, when the cheerleader with Wolverine like powers mangles her hand in the InSinkErator. Now Emerson in all up set about it but it might be a PR thing.

CNNmoney.com