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RED Announces New Cameras & Accessories

April 14, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Red1 Comment

RED, the makers of the hard to come by, 4K digital camera RED ONE, have made a number of new product announcements at the latest NAB show. The first big announcement is of their mini version of the ONE, dubbed the Scarlet, which shoots 3K footage to dual Compact Flash cards, at the cost of about $1000 per K (or $3000). If you’ve been drooling over the ONE, but found the $17,500 price tag a bit steep, the Scarlet might be the next best thing to sliced bread, until you…

CAIP vs. Bell – Round One

April 8, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, CAIP4 Comments

In the latest news regarding the Bell bandwidth throttling issue, the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) has filed a Cease And Desist application with the CRTC, to put an end to Bell’s packet shaping. From the press release: Tom Copeland, Chair of CAIP states, ” Bell has undertaken an activity that it has no regulatory authority to do and it did so without notifying it’s wholesale ISP customers which it has a legal responsibility to do before making such changes. It did so without the knowledge of its customers…

Canadian Throttling: It’s Not Just For P2P

April 4, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, Teksavvy, throttling10 Comments

The issue of net neutrality is quickly coming to a head here in Canada. It’s been long known that the largest cable internet provider Rogers has been throttling P2P activity, but since the announcement a couple of weeks ago that Bell would start throttling P2P on it’s 3rd party wholesale lines (which would affect DSL users not subscribed to Bell’s Sympatico service), there has been a lot of action. What has been largely overlooked is that not only is Bell throttling P2P, but they are, if the evidence is accurate,…

Hadron Collider Injunction Sought – Head Crab Fears

April 2, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves Hadron collider499 Comments

With the construction complete on CERNs Large Hadron Collider, two men have sought an injuction in a Hawaiian court to prevent them flicking the switch, out of safety concerns. The two major concerns are the possibility of creating small scale black holes that could suck up the earth, or the creation of strangelets that could theoretically convert us all into matter straight out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel (or possibly “Plan 9 From Outer Space”). Though the chances of either of these senarious actually playing out is essentially zero, it…

Net Neutrality Perfect Storm, eh! – Updated

March 31, 2008July 9, 2009 Doug Groves Bell, net neutrality86 Comments

For some time, net neutrality has been below the radar for most Canadians. Sure, we’ve read about what’s going on in the US, but many of the regulations governing internet backbones and content delivery are different up here. For example, Canadian law charges a piracy tax on writeable media such as CDs, to offset piracy. In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen a perfect storm brewing regarding net neutrality in our home and native land. Here’s a quick breakdown… Bell Canada is required to sell DSL lines wholesale to…

Newtek on Scoblizer TV

March 31, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves newtek, Tricaster50 Comments

This is a pretty cool 19 minute video with Scoble interviewing Newtek’s Philip Nelson (Senior VP of Strategic Development), talking about the TriCaster, the all in one video production box that fits in a backpack. A worthwhile watch for those wanting to look at powerful live production tools that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

Nine Ways Yahoo! Has Already Eviscerated Itself Better Than Microsoft Ever Could

February 8, 2008August 29, 2009 Doug Groves Microsoft, Yahoo2 Comments

1. Previewing a next generation beta mail interface that looks and moves like 300 lb. ass. Google walked an artful line with its first iteration of Gmail, introducing responsive AJAX code without sacrificing too much time in preload. It’s a line that Yahoo! blundered right over as if it were never even there. Google saw what Yahoo! didn’t — just because new tools give us the ability to recreate a desktop application within a browser, doesn’t necessarily mean we should. There is a way to make smart choices about how…

on the (un)importance of technology

January 24, 2008July 25, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

ED NOTE: this article originally appeared on The Laroquod Experiment website. You can find examples of Paul’s work and commentary there. Welcome aboard! As the demo clips previously posted further down this page reveal, I was originally trained to shoot on film. But most anything I do these days is on Digital Video. What technical enhancements do I use to disguise or compensate for this? (There are a lot out there that claim to do just that.) Is unadorned DV really worthy of capturing quality work? I’ve heard independent filmmakers…

Nuendo 4 Released – Press Release

November 23, 2007July 25, 2009 James Moore Nuendo3 Comments

From the Nuendo 4 Press Release: Steinberg is proud to present the latest version of its award-winning Nuendo audio production environment. The Nuendo 4 Advanced Audio and Post Production System enhances audio production for audio post, studio production and live recording with new tools to accelerate workflows, boost creativity and save valuable production time. Among the new features are a world-class automation system, new VST3 plug-ins, the MediaBay file management system, new audio post editing commands, routing and recording enhancements and much more. NOV 30th Vancouver Film School in the…

Institutions of Higher Earning?

November 15, 2007July 25, 2009 Doug Groves online rights2 Comments

Top Democratic leaders have introduced a new bill that would essentially force universities to sign up to paid music services, or face losing federal financial aid including that for students who don’t use a computer. The proposal is buried in a 700+ page spending and financial aid bill. They also have the option of using technology based deterrents to prevent illegal downloading, and would suffer the same consequences if they fail to implement such measures. This amounts to little more than an extortion racket, and it’s not surprising that the…

Wacom Announces new Cintiq 12WX

October 25, 2007April 17, 2009 Doug Groves tablet, Wacom3 Comments

I’ve always been a fan of Wacom tablets. There’s really no better input device for uses such as Photoshop or ZBrush, and now they’ve introduced their newest – the Cintiq 12WX. It features a hi-resolution 12 inch wide screen display, and 1024 levels of sensitivity. From the press release: Pressure-sensitivity with 1,024 levels Create natural-looking pen, brush, and eraser strokes. Tilt Sensitivity Tilt your input device in either direction and create natural-looking pen, brush, and eraser strokes. Rotation Sensitivity Some input devices can be rotated along their axis and with…

Sony’s PMW-EX1 solid state camera

September 24, 2007April 17, 2009 Doug Groves PMW, Sony0 comment

Sony announce their latest HD camera last week in New York. The PMW-EX1 uses Sony’s SxS PRO ExpressCard for recording and playback. The format should lead to lower power consumption than PCMCIA cards. With two SxS slots loaded with 16GB each, the camera can record over 100 minutes of high quality HD footage at 35Mb/sec, or 140 minutes at 25Mb/sec, in MP4 format. The estimated price of the new camera is expected to be about $8000 US. You can read more about the PMW-EX1 at the Sony site.