| Digital Video Essentials - High Definition
Let's start with a little bit of history. Joe Kane Productions was formed in 1982 for the purpose of improving the quality of NTSC color television, back at a time when few consumer end-users cared much about such things beyond fiddling with the 'Color' and 'Tint' knobs on their TVs every so often to "dial in" the picture to their liking. Founder Joe Kane has also acted as Chair of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Working Group and in 1994 helped to form the Imaging Science Foundation. In 1988, during the infancy of what is now known as home theater, Kane released a program titled A Video Standard on laserdisc, then the highest quality home video format of choice for discerning movie watchers. That disc was the first product an average consumer could purchase to help calibrate their televisions to reach the best NTSC performance.
Home video market becomes cheaper, cleaner
The home video market in India is seeing heightened competition. First, Moser Baer, a player primarily into the optical storage devices market, recently entered the market with high decibel advertisements offering DVDs and VCDs at record lows of Rs 34 and Rs 28, respectively. T-Series responded with a huge ad campaign too though its products are priced slightly higher. However, existing players don't feel that there is necessarily a price war in the segment Bhushan Kumar, Managing Director, T-Series claims that T-Series has been selling VCDs and DVDs of quite a few titles at Rs 45 since the past two years but just didn't heavily publicize the offering. Describing the T-Series strategy, Bhushan Kumar said: "At the time of launching home video products for a movie, we price it higher; then reduce it after a period of five to six months and then again reduce it further to price levels of Rs 38 for VCD and Rs 45 for DVD."
For example, the VCDs and DVDs of Sarkar were launched at Rs 160 and reduced three months back to Rs 67.
Call for video sites to refuse cyber-bullying videos
Alan Arthur Johnson, a British Labour Party politician and the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, has called upon Internet websites to help tackle the growing problem of cyber-bullying against students and teachers. He said that video websites such as YouTube should ban malicious video clips of teachers and school students and filter them like already done with pornographic content. Johnson spoke about the problem at the National Union of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) in Belfast. "Cyber-bullying is cruel and relentless, able to follow a child beyond the school gates and into their homes," he said. "The online harassment of teachers is causing some to consider leaving the profession because of the defamation and humiliation they are forced to suffer." Teachers now have the right to confiscate mobile phones in the classroom to prevent bullies from recording footage of teachers or students for malicious intent.
Assault at Hollywood Video
A 23-year old Bismarck woman says she was punched in the face by her ex-boyfriend at the video store and then forced into her car. The woman cooperated with her ex so she wouldn't be hurt any further. His name is Conan Moore, a 28 year old Bismarck man . Moore drove her outside of Bismarck where she was eventually told he would drive her home. The woman was then dropped back off at Hollywood Video where she called police. The city charged Moore with simple assault and Burleigh County charged him with felonious restraint which is a class C felony and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle a class A misdemeanor. Watch the Video | Buy / Download This Video .
Home-networking systems should co-evolve with standards
The home network is becoming the "grand central station" for faster video, voice and data traffic. Demand for a higher data rate is expected to increase as more video changes from standard to high definition. This means that new home-networking systems must evolve along with the standards that will undoubtedly emerge in the foreseeable future. Various interface standards for both wired and wireless networking have typically been used to implement home networking for multimedia. But none of the current standards guarantees quality-of-service (QoS) for live multimedia transmission within the home. The first challenge is to design a reliable multimedia home-networking platform that is able to deliver Internet Protocol (IP) packets with sufficient QoS and also with no visible or audible distortion.
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