this new bit of the site will evolve for all my work with TV, movies, past video material, podcasting, current streaming video and similar...
...watch this space, quite literally for once!
So... for now here are a couple of interesting things:
The first is only really interesting if you view this on an Apple MacBook with built in iSight camera - the standard basic Mac portable. Below is a QuickTime movie embedded into a webpage. I remember doing this first with a VideoLogic board in a Mac II in the 80s, and audiences were amazed to see themselves embedded in a computer presentation on stage. It gets easier. This time a QuickTime movie makes use of the Quartz Composer engine and feeds live data from an iSight camera. Quartz Composer is built into the Mac OS X operating system, which is why this currently only works on Macs. Want to do this yourself?
For now this is only MacBook ---> webpage, but how long before it is every phone---> blog ie before everyone is a public service broadcaster? less than five years, for sure.
Now... that raises some interesting thoughts. Earlier this year, I became involved with shaping the specification for the 2012 Olympic Media Centre in Stratford, London. An interesting challenge! The short text below was part of my contribution and reflects quite well (i thought!) the challenge that such a Media centre faces, bearing in mind that 2012 is 5 years away.
You might also care to reflect on the economics of all this - where media is so far into a model of perfect competiton that, effectively, sporting video srreams are a free good, where does this leave the finance model for 2012 (or the Premier league for that matter) relying heavily as they do on the revenue from a monopoly video stream.When everyone is a public-service broadcaster, who pays the Chelsea salaries, or the Olympic bills?! read more on my retroblog...
and here is live video from Brightlingsea - even the house is a broadcaster now...
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last revised: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 11:23 AM
