OT; Is this why Apple says Blue Ray who

[Chris Borjis]

This has potential and WILL eventually take over, but not
until it can be done with 1080P video, nothing but smooth playback, and the audio quality is MUCH improved.

Thats what Microsoft is doing with Silverlight.

[Bill Dewald]

and when all of our clients upgrade their Flash, and get nice computer monitors to watch stuff on…

[Mick Haensler]

I played it on a MBP dual 2.4 with 2 gigs of RAM and wireless cable over AirPort and it played flawlessly. This is what I’ve been waiting for!

Mick Haensler
Higher Ground Media

[Chris Brown]

You’re 100% right there. We haven’t handed over a DVD daily/cut/anything during an edit for almost 2 years. Just finished a spot today, and the entire client review process for sound and picture was done via the internet.

[Anthony Dalesandro]

I had no problems streaming it either. Using my company’s T1 with 250 other employees on a 4 core 2.66 MacPro.
Got a little blocky on the fades so it’s nowhere near Blu-ray quality, but exceptional for full screen web quality.

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Anthony Dalesandro
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[Christopher Wright]

There of course is a huge difference between client approvals and finished product output. Blu-Ray can and will take off only when Hollywood decides that consumers can buy a RECORDING stand-alone Blu-ray unit. Now they are still nixing the sale of units based on their old Betamax paradigm. Otherwise Blu Ray will never really take off.

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Octocore 8 GB Ram, Radeon card, MBP, MXO
Windows XP Adobe Studio CS3, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.2, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 6, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects

[Sean Oneil]

Have all of you guys lost your minds??? This is the h264 codec. We’ve had this capability on our Macs for like 2 years now.

Sean

[Nate Stephens]

Sean,

yes we have had H264 for awhile now, but, have you ever seen it streamed at full screen 24″ with out all the hicups…. I haven’t. I have seen half screen with out the hicups, but not full screen 1,700kbps..

That is what amazes me… And then to think these Velocix folks will let you upload 500gbs* per month for free world wide streaming

*(double check their web site)

[Sean Oneil]

[Nate Stephens] “yes we have had H264 for awhile now, but, have you ever seen it streamed at full screen 24” with out all the hicups…. I haven’t. I have seen half screen with out the hicups, but not full screen 1,700kbps.. “

Yes, I have. Many, many times. You guys are living in a cave if you haven’t seen fullscreen HD streaming until recently. Netflix Instant Viewing, for example, is 2200kbps. And they call it Instant Viewing for a reason.

I think your confusion exists because you use the Quicktime Player browser plugin. It doesn’t have a fullscreen button for some reason. Every other player does. Flash 9 now supports h264 (which isn’t much different than VC1 or Divx) so I guess this is the first time you’ve seen h264 full screen.

Here are some examples:

ABC (watch Lost in HD right now):
https://abc.go.com/player/

Apple Trailers
https://www.apple.com/trailers/
They’ve been using QTL links instead of the QT browser plugin for a while now. So you can watch fullscreen in the regular QT Player. If you’re on a cable modem, you can start playback immediately.

Divx Stage 6 has been around so long they just shut it down recently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage6
They had HD streaming since 2006. That’s 2006, as in 2 years ago.

There’s many more. Maybe certain streaming server services suck, and I guess you’re trying to sell this one or something and you’re saying it doesn’t suck. That’s cool, but please don’t pretend this is some amazing new technology.

Sean

[Nate Stephens]

Sean,

I not selling anything…. yes I understand that is kinda of hard to believe for this pasture.

And yes I must be living in a cave….. I was just amazed at this implementation of available technology. And thought I would share.

I guess your astute observations is why you get paid the big bucks and can afford all the latest toys to stay current on the latest tech.. You are very blessed and probably always got an A+ on Show and Tell days in grade school…..

I appreciate the links and will check them out…. and now back to my cave…..