In February 2002, Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist Robert Courtney pleaded guilty to 20 federal counts of diluting chemotherapy drugs, which he then sold to customers for extra profit. Courtney, who was facing up to 196 years in prison, instead accepted a plea agreement...
One of the hardest things for CG to simulate is the human form. One of the hardest things for videoconferencing and distance learning to simulate is human...
Many of us went to NAB primarily to get hands-on time with next-generation HDV camcorders. Instead, we got marketing mockups with no information about...
For years as a writer/videographer I have been touting mini-cameras' coming of age. I've even been using them for a while, but usually as a backup, a...
OK, right from the get-go, you don't a canoe. I know that, and you know that, but Run, Paddle, and Ride just didn't have that alliterative ring to it....
There were several compressed high-definition technologies introduced at NAB 2004. There were also several manufacturers that ridiculed the concept of...
Above are some of the 250 new text animation presets that ship with After Effects 6.5 in the new version of the Adobe Video Collection. Adobe introduces...
In the spring of 2003 when folks began trying to edit HDV, someone made a great discovery. If they used the i.LINK capture application bundled with the...
In early 2003 Apple introduced Final Cut Express, a packaged aimed squarely at the mid-level DV professionals in the Mac crowd. Its feature set fell between...
It can be easy to get complacent about resolution now that the majority of video projectors are XGA, and particularly now that the majority of LCD and...
Streaming technology has been around for 10 years, and it still hasn't been mainstreamed. Why is that? That was the provocative question posed by James...
My eighth grade civics class was never as exciting as this: a theater surrounded with high-definition imagery, stage lighting, gobo projection, and 8-channel...
What do you need in order to send video signals over long cable distances? High-quality cables to reduce signal noise? Sure. And maybe you'll use a distribution...
Format wars may make for good copy in the press, but users tend to hate them. Mostly, they lead to confusion and awkward choices, and typical users would...
If there's one DVD creation application that turned the tide of authoring from daunting to drag-and-drop simplicity, and from exclusivity to something...
In 2002, when I first heard that Apple was releasing iLife, a series of four programs, for only $49, I thought the company was nuts. But now Apple has......
Steve Mullen's article Welcome to 64 Bits was very helpful. In his next article it would be helpful if he mentioned which aspect (single-precision integer...
To many, George Stoney is known as the father of public access. An unwavering social activist, he's been a champion for public access to electronic media...
Court TV
Awaiting the Second Wave
Uncompressed vs. Compressed
High-Resolution InfoComm
Multi-faceted Compression