This blog is usually all about innovation, revolution and the future, but there’s one thing that stuck with me and hasn’t changed since the days I was a kid: Books. One may wonder if in this time and age books are still relevant, and I must admit that I am a sucker for them. It may seem like a wonder how this “old” medium survived, but a “soft” version of a book would never compare to the “hard” version of
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 30th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
A few weeks ago Bezeq, Israel’s leading telecommunications provider, announced that its Board of Directors decided to move forward with the Next Generation Network (NGN) project. Bezeq is the dominant leader in the fixed line (wire-line) market in Israel and a strong player in the internet provider market (based on ADSL technology). Bezeq will invest, according to the press release, more than $400 million in upgrading its infrastructure in order to provide internet services at bitrates of up to 50Mbps.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
If you haven’t been using video conferencing, CP may mean nothing to you. CP, or Continuous Presence, is the most popular mode of display in a video conference. It means that some of the participants in the conference (or all of them) are displayed simultaneously in a mosaic (also known as “Hollywood Squares“), thus enabling each participant to see all of the other participants, as if they were in an actual (physical) meeting. Hollywood squares - the game,
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 15th, 2008 | Filed under High Definition, Video Conferencing
downloadsquad has recently announced that YouTube are planning to introduce live video in 2008. This is a very exciting piece of news, even if the announcement hasn’t been confirmed by the “Tubesters” themselves. The fact that YouTube, the #1 video sharing website, may even be considering live video broadcasting is surprising, and may yet prove that live video broadcasting is not just hype. Then and now: Steve Mann (left), Justine Kan (right) The best example of live video
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 1st, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Streaming
In 1979 a British new wave band by the name of Buggles released a song that was aimed at celebrating the golden days of radio in the late 50s. The song, “Video Killed the Radio Star”, tells the story of a singer whose career is cut short by the invention of television.The music video for this song, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was the first to be shown on MTV, when the music channel debuted on August 1, 1981 at 12:10am.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 18th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
