Posts Tagged with ‘high-definition’

Not too long ago, we castigated Adobe somewhat for signing onto a creepy PDF overlay advertising plan with the Yahoo! Mail folks. Now we will celebrate the company for doing something rather wonderful.
No, we haven’t gone bipolar. We’re still well in control of our senses. We just really, really like what we heard yesterday coming out of the San Jose-based company’s PR department.
If you’re familiar with Adobe and its Microsoft-like aversion to providing most any piece of software [...]

Back in September, we brought you word that an Internet television series, dubbed “Quarterlife,” would debut in November. As of last week, it was released.
Produced by Hollywood notables Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, Quarterlife has had just short of two weeks to make some first impressions with the public ? and the press ? and, quite surprisingly, it?s managed to nab itself some fairly good reviews. (Some bads have cropped up - one published yesterday in The New [...]

Azureus, the company behind the popular BitTorrent client of the same name, has today unveiled that their hi-def online video service known as Vuze will open up to independent video and film producers.
The main difference between Vuze and some of the existing competition (Joost, Babelgum, VeohTV) is that this one is based on the BitTorrent protocol, which can be bad news or good news because download speeds depend on how many users are sharing and downloading the content that you [...]

Apparently there has been a lot of concern about the video quality and bandwidth requirements of Joost, the free P2P online television application. JoostTeam has done some testing and compared the quality of Joost to both DivX Stage6 and iTunes videos.
According to their findings, the bit rate of Joost videos equals out to only half that of the same videos available from DivX or iTunes. To make matters even worse, it was reported that the resolution of Joost does [...]

I have just had a chance to chat with Gilles BianRosa, CEO of Azureus. We discussed the exciting news about Azureus latest product codenamed Zudeo. Since its launch in December Azureus gave us plenty reasons to write about this exciting video service - we have already covered its first content distribution agreement with BBC Worldwide and the second one with Bennett Group. This week they have announced a new partnership with Starz Media. It looks like they are really working [...]