[I've been asked often, during the past two years, what's next on the video coding front. Some people are asking about H.265, the natural heir of the current king H.264; others are just wondering where we're going. To be honest, even for a video coding guy keeping up with the latest trends and turns in the video coding world is a complicated task. But the "next generation" of video coding is a very interesting topic, not to mention very relevant
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By guest | January 19th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation
What Greater Social Responsibility Is There Than Climate Change? Last year I participated in Blog Action Day and promised myself to make it a tradition. After
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 15th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
A few months ago I’ve written about the “deadly” effects IP networks have on video quality. The bottom line was that user experience today is highly dependent on network conditions, and so understanding your network is a must if you want to properly and successfully deploy visual communication means in your organization. But understanding the network and testing its “readiness” for video transport is not a trivial task. In fact, many organizations test their networks after deployment, which results in
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 16th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[Yossi Cohen is the founder of DSP-IP, a video development, outsourcing and consulting company. Yossi has been developing video coding and streaming solutions for the last 14 years and lectures about video for the last 9 years. In his current position Yossi assists video and web related startups to define, develop and launch their services] As a consultant to video related ventures, I constantly stumble upon companies and individuals thinking of video innovation in terms of bits, bytes and
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By guest | February 17th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
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
[After more than 6 years of successfully leading the market with the ProLab Testing Suite RADVISION just released its new network testing software tool, eVident, which targets voice and video over IP, focused on enterprises, service providers and system integrators. As I am very interested in video over IP, especially in the enterprise, I sat down with Elie Cohen, eVident Product Manager, to learn more about this network video quality analysis tool] I have written previously at length about the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 4th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
Video conferencing is reaching out to everyone, including the desktop. Still I am often confronted with the fact that video conferencing has been “the NEXT big thing” for more than a decade, and has yet to become a truly popular means of communication (like, for instance, the mobile phone). Researchers have found that there are a few problems – primarily psychological – that may explain the slow penetration of video conferencing into our lives, and also the reluctance of many
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 27th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
