Posted by on under shutter speed, iphe, iphone, videocamera, ipod touch, hey guys, trusty, firmware, hd, insight, images | 
Hey guys,
This won't mean jack squat to most of you but I've managed (with the help of the iPod Touch dev team) to boot the iPhone in restore verbose mode which will hopefully give us some insight into what we can do to crack the new firmware.
I trained my trusty Canon XH A1 HD videocamera at it with a high shutter speed to make sense of the quickly passing images. Check out the video and stills below.
I'll go through and translate it by hand to make things clearer.
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Posted by on under ugly duckling, beautiful swan, zune, gray bird, champis, clear stream, anet, techcrunch, growing pains, ipod touch, thin air, quirks, caliber, sy, hd, offerings, swan, samsung, bush, microsoft |
But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. —The Ugly Duckling
It's been a long, brown trip for the Zune: from its early days (mocked and abject) to its awkward years (deemed a dead end and money pit) it's been embattled and criticized, and rightly so. After all, here was an unpopular company with a frankly ridiculous brand it had pulled out of thin air, attempting to compete with the guys who defined the market. We've always been champions of the devices, despite their quirks, and of the service, despite its growing pains — and Microsoft occasionally made it pretty hard for us to stand by our favorite little misfit media player. Well, for once they just made it
really easy. Let's not beat around the bush, now: this thing is going head-on with the iPod touch, one of the most versatile and well-liked devices on the planet. There are other PMPs, sure, but the caliber of these two devices is well beyond the best offerings from Creative, Samsung, or Sony. To make it easy on the Apple fans who are impatient to comment on this story, let me just state it right now for the record: the Zune HD is not an iPod-killer, but it
is the only player out there that can go up against it and not be annihilated in the process. It's good enough that everyone owes it to themselves to give it a look — unless you're afraid of just how good it might be.
TechCrunch50 Conference 2009: September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco
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Posted by on under 2010 winter olympics, olympics nbc, 2008 summer olympics, microsoft silverlight, video highlight, winter olympics, summer olympics, facebook, live tomorrow, th time, techcrunch, mainstay, nbc, olympics, hd, microsoft |
NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site,
NBCOlympics.com, scheduled to go live tomorrow. (See screenshots below). Once again, just as it
did with the 2008 Summer Olympics, NBC will be using a video player based on Microsoft Silverlight technology to offer full HD videos. Except this time, the video player will have DVR-like functionality, with the ability to rewind the video, highlight clips and save them. The video player will also incorporate Facebook Connect, to allow people to chat with their friends as they are watching the events. NBC expects the addition of Facebook chat to make the videos a more social and engaging experience, and also hopes viewing times will subsequently increase.
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Posted by on under amy banse, media experiences, entertainment internet, launch, vod, comcast, subs, bad news, home entertainment, hd, nbsp, household, subscribers |
Comcast's Amy Banse just hit the stage at NewTeeVee Live and announced key details about the company's new
On Demand Online launch. If you can't check out the video (embedded after the break) here's the important stuff: It will be available at no additional cost to existing subscribers and allow the authorization of up to 3 devices per household. Log in once from home to Comcast.net or Fancast.com, download the
Move Networks powered player to authorize your PC and proceed to stream from the
very healthy library of VOD, whether at home or anywhere else, despite previous rumors to the
contrary. The bad news? Yes, this does still count against the 250GB monthly cap if used at home and still no word on HD streaming, but within the concept of making content available to subscribers wherever they want to view it, this seems like a good first step.
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Posted by on under 720p or 1080p, snout, youtube, roundtable, hd |
I attended a YouTube roundtable in San Francisco yesterday, and learned of many features coming soon, including this: Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p. In this blog post, see how much this enhances one's experience of a dog's snout....
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