Tag Archive for 'bandwidth'
I already have a web cam (a Logitech Communicate STX) but I’m shopping around for a good USB 2 web cam. I have tested Apple’s iSight and I was pleased with the results but I’m not ready to commit to Apple any time soon.
I’ve been a long time Sony fan, when it comes to camcorders [...]
An article in The New York Times, showcases Google’s new muscles. The article focused on a new facility that Google is building. Here’s the photo:
The article speculates that it’s all related to Google keeping its leading position in search. I think these guys are probably right – though not 100 percent. I bet a lot [...]
This is a crazy idea to be sure. In a normal video production, the rule of thumb is that you shoot in the highest possible quality and THEN downgrade it in post. There’s little point to shoot with a webcam even if you have sequence that needs to LOOK like a webcam.
My webcam is a [...]
AdSense is already part of my lifestyle (I check it compulsively!). I was expecting the introduction of Google’s click-to-play video ads and voila – I get a note about them.
I visited the AdSense blog to find out more and I saw a message from Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO about network neutrality (that I wrote about in my [...]
Shopping for a webcam is tough. I have significant experience with video cameras and video production in general, so I’m quite capable of comparing 3 CDDs to 1 CCD to 1 CMOS; juggling CCD sizes, lens diameters and what not.
Webcams are much simpler really. Their lenses are so small, it seems it ALL boils down [...]
A flurry of articles and posts has been launched at telco’s efforts to create a two-tier Internet.
Back in the day when ISPs simply offered a connection to the Internet, this was a non-issue. It would’ve been a commercial suicide for an ISP to say: “Look, we’re going to block Yahoo! until they pay us a [...]
Based on recent figures (April 2006), the broadband penetration in the USA has reached 70% among active internet users. This represents a bit over 1% increase per month.
Canada is still ahead although the gap is closing. Currently, about 76% of Canadians have a broadband connection at home.
Korea is still in the lead when comparing the [...]
