Misc. formats

Cool paint
My wife and I are looking to repaint our dining and living rooms, maybe I can convice her to use... September 01, 2004

TV Graphics
Ever wonder how they get those country icons in the swimming and running lanes during NBC's coverage of the Olympics?... August 24, 2004

DivX 5.2 out
There's a new version of the popular DivX compression tool available. Version 5.2 features better performance and increased language support.... July 29, 2004

PentaWare adds PDF capabilities
PentaWare is adding PDF conversion capabilities to its Swiss-Army-Knife-on-steroids file managment system, PentaSuite 7.1. This thing can read just about... June 10, 2004

iTunes Pepsi giveaway fizzles
Looks like Apple's plans to give away 100 million free iTunes music downloads in specially-marked cans of Pepsi came in... May 04, 2004

New software decoder available
Media Excel is marketing a new software decoder capable of recieving MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 encoded content. The company's SoftStream... April 20, 2004

Rear seat entertainment
No, not that kind of entertainment.... audio and video. XM Radio is investing in Digital Fountain's file delivery technology with... April 15, 2004

Security flaw in Winamp
NGSSoftware is reporting a flaw in the way the popular Nullsoft Winamp loads certain metafiles could be exploited by an... April 11, 2004

A multi-codec codec?
This one slipped through the cracks most of the week: I did a story in this week's print edition on... March 12, 2004

Secure streaming spec released
The Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) this week released its first Encryption and Authentication Specification, a framework for delivering streaming... March 05, 2004

iPods and WMA: Not so fast
Looks like my entry from yesterday about the Windows Media on iPod rumor may be a bit premature, according to... January 14, 2004

Rich media ads grow
A good thing if you're a marketer and bad if you hate those video ads in AOL Instant Messenger recent... January 13, 2004

iPod and Windows Media?
Yesterday's GMSV newsletter reported a rumor that the HP/Apple deal to sell OEMed iPods under the HP brand could also...

PowerPoint making you dumb?
The New York Time's Clive Thompson cites a Columbia Accident Investigation Board report and Edward Tufte's research in his argument... December 16, 2003

EOL for WinAmp?
Is it the end of the line for WinAmp? Amid the layoffs announced by AOL were the last two full-time... December 10, 2003

New decoder for mobile devices
Sand Video today announced a new codec - SV-IP01LP - for mobile phones. The decoder core is based on Advanced... December 08, 2003

Convera, Nexidia partner
I don't usually mention to many partnership announcements, but this one struck me as being kind of cool (if you... October 16, 2003

New video archiving codec
BitJazz has announced SheerVideo, a new non-destructive video codec targeting those store archival video for later use. The new codec... July 22, 2003

AOL users to experience more streaming
Looks like AOL is bringing streaming media to the masses with the upcoming releases of AOL 9.0. David Minto of... June 04, 2003

New Radio@AOL service features new format
AOL today launched a series of enhancements to its Radio@AOL service for both broadband and narrowband customers. The most dramatic... May 28, 2003

A look at Ogg Vorbis
MP3 may be the standard for online music, but Ogg Vorbis from Xiph.org is making a push for respectability, according... May 27, 2003

Ranting about codec versions
Why is it the simplest streaming project seems to turn out the most complicated? Our marketing department asked me to... May 23, 2003

Datasound prints audio, data on a page
A German company has figured out to store 50 k/bytes of audio or data on a printed page in a... May 08, 2003

Discreet ships Cleaner XL
The long wait is over. Mac users have had a new version of Discreet's Cleaner product for a few months,... March 05, 2003

H.264 video on the horizon
H.264, a new video compression standard (also called MPEG-4 part 10) under development by ISO, ITU and the MPEG standard... February 04, 2003

This will make me buy a new cellphone
Though I like to have some of the latest gadgets, my personal cellphone is a plain vanilla Nokia model. Why... December 05, 2002

AOL builds own streaming tech
The biggest ISP of them all, AOL, has built its own streaming media technology called Ultravox. The new technology is... November 19, 2002

Panasonic and Microsoft develop HighM.A.T.
With the continued proliferation of CD and DVD burners on the market consumers are increasingly creating personal discs of photos,... October 18, 2002

Netscape 7.0 features new radio player
The latest release of Netscape's once-dominant browser features a new "Radio@Netscape Plus" player application for listening to online entertainment and... September 03, 2002

Ogg Vorbis, the new MP3?
There's a big stink in the online music industry over Thompson Multimedia and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the MP3 patent holders,... August 28, 2002

Audiophiles tune in
Do you brag to all your friends that you have the largest MP3 collection in the world? (All legal, of... August 23, 2002