December 5, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
The Pratt School of Engineering has arranged for Christie to be on site this Wednesday, December 10th, at 9:30 AM in Teer 327 Christie to show wireless collaboration system, the Brio: http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/business/products/christie-brio-presentation-and-collaboration-systems/Pages/christie-brio-team.aspx More information on time and location will be posted here....
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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 19, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
Jack D’Ardenne and I visited the production offices and studios of MITx and HarvardX this week. Both schools produce excellent quality videos and use a wide range of resources. This will briefly look at their internal production studio facilities. MITx...
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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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October 30, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Extron recently announced their new wireless collaboration gateway, ShareLink 200. The device is very similar to Crestron's AirMedia. Some differences compared to the AirMedia are listed below. We will reach out to Crestron for a demo and report back when we have...
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October 27, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
We've recently completed renovations of the Multimedia Project Studio (MPS) West's studio space. It was originally designed as a multipurpose space, meeting, conference and video studio, but the design proved to be too complex and it didn't really do any one of...
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October 17, 2014
By: Stephen Toback
We've been talking about glasses free 3D televisions for the last few years (NAB 2014 Report) and have seen good advances in phones and viewfinders for 3D cameras. I was excited to hear at this year's NAB that the monitor...
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October 8, 2014
By: elevine@duke.edu
The average day behind my desk would be tough to classify as highly exciting, but once or twice a month I make hobby of punishing low cost video cameras. I start by mounting them inside a large dark metal box....
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October 6, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Roku is now testing mirroring functionality using Miracast. Currently, only Windows 8.1 and Android devices support Miracast, which means this will not work using Apple devices. http://blog.roku.com/blog/2014/10/02/introducing-roku-screen-mirroring-beta-for-microsoft-windows-and-android-devices/
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September 30, 2014
By: Todd Stabley
On October 5 GoPro is releasing a widely-anticipated version of its Hero that supports 4K at 30fps and 1080p at 120fps. You can watch some absolutely stunning footage shot with this camera on YouTube here (for best viewing, watch on...
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