March 22, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
Long time streaming industry encoding guru Jan Ozer compiles statistics each year on his blog (http://streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/average-us-broadcasters-streaming-at-837-kbps-total-data-rate.html) that you can use as a rough guide for determining what video data rates, sizes, codecs, and other specs are being used by the big...
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March 9, 2012
By: Todd Stabley
Monitor calibration is a simple process that can dramatically improve the appearance of the screens we spend so much time looking at every day. Even more important, accurate color and brightness is essential for anyone who edits images and video...
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February 23, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
A few of us in OIT recently visited Cisco in RTP to check out one of their Active Collaboration Rooms (ACR). For the demo we visited one of Cisco's ACRs which was 24'x24'. This room contained the default ACR functionality: SmartBoard,...
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February 22, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
We recently received two computer monitors from Dell to demo for potential use in the new MPS lab: the UltraSharp LED U2412M and the UltraSharp U2410. We were looking for something somewhat comparable to the NEC PA241W-BK but a little...
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February 21, 2012
By: Scott Wells
The price might be just right. Very intriguing article delivered in an engaging online digital format. Lots of suggested add-ons and modifications to power up your GoPro camera. Found this one in the latest digital edition of "Digital Video." Got...
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February 17, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Interesting read about Cisco trying to require Microsoft to make Skype compatible with other standards-based voice and video systems. http://arst.ch/shw
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February 16, 2012
By: Scott Wells
Very interesting read for those of us involved with live streaming. I was amused that they called out Ustream by name. Enjoy the read.
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By: Michael Faber
Lots of news out there today in the tech world about the out-of-nowhere announcement from Apple that Mountain Lion is coming this summer. After we all collectively sighed and chuckled and realized, damn, we should have seen that coming, we...
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February 14, 2012
By: Michael Faber
Although Duke has sympa for maintaining listservs, sometimes it doesn't quite have all the features you'd want for a more traditional one-way email newsletter-type service. I've used Mailchimp extensively (outside of my Duke life), and it's a really simple, well-designed...
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January 27, 2012
By: Jack D'Ardenne
I just read about this on Macworld. This mic was an iWorld 2012 Best of Show winner. "This $200 USB condenser microphone can be used with a Mac or an iPad, and has a built-in shock mount and adjustable stand....
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