January 12, 2015
By: Todd Stabley
Some of you have been following OIT's three year search for a replacement for our antiquated DukeStream servers. We searched diligently for something super easy to use and that would integrate seamlessly with our identity management systems so that users can...
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December 4, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
I attended Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach, CA this month and got a chance to brag about DukeStream and DukeCapture there on a panel called Streaming Deployment Architectures in Higher Education. The session Moderator was Chris Knowlton, Vice...
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November 13, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
For those of you who do live broadcasting via Telestream Wirecast, I wanted to let you know that Telestream recently announced Wirecast 6, which among other new features includes Playlists, Instant Replay, Twitter integration, 3D titling and lower thirds, 64-bit architecture, Recoverable File...
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February 25, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
I recently completed our annual survey of enterprise lecture capture systems and wanted to share our findings with those of you interested in taking a look. This document looks at 11 of the leading products in use today in higher ed (tools like MediaSite, Echo360,...
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By: Jack D'Ardenne
This new Panasonic AW-HE2 USB HD camera looks interesting. High list price ($995), but it offers a lot of functionality. I'm going to reach out to Panasonic to see if we can get a demo and I'll report back if we...
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February 24, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Recently, I had a chance to demo Lenovo's Thinkpad Tablet 2 so we could test it with Duke's Digital Signage Service (running Four Winds Interactive's software). The tablet featured an Intel 1.8Ghz Atom processor, 64GB SSD, 2GB ram, and ran the 32bit...
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February 21, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
With media center applications like iTunes taking over the desktop in the last few years, old school media players like QuickTime and Windows Media Player have to some extent been edged out of the mix. For example, Apple hasn't updated...
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February 19, 2014
By: Chip Bobbert II
Often times we have events, projects or circumstances that require us to use high end cameras with software that is really only designed for USB cams. Professional and Prosumer gear almost always lacks the USB interface so this can be...
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February 11, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
OIT has been working with Duke Libraries recently to investigate media asset management systems for Duke. As part of this collaboration, Steve and I participated in a demo, organized by John Pormann of Duke Libraries, at IBM's headquarters in RTP....
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February 5, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
I'm excited to announce that OIT purchased a site license yesterday for JWPlayer Pro. This license covers anyone embedding a video using JWPlayer on *.duke.edu domains (i.e., oit.duke.edu, library.duke.edu, lemur.duke.edu, etc.). For many years, JW Player has been the player...
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