December 2005

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European “MI FRIENDS” DMB Project

December 19, 2005 in Applications, Services by Administrator | No comments

This looks like another huge project under the Celtic Eureka umbrella. MI FRIENDS will be a two years project for the 75 official participants.
 
The project aimes at a new architecture of inter-working media services based on infrastructures of broadcasting and telecommunications for the media needs of a mobile information society. 
The project goal is to develop and test new mobile media technologies from an economic point of view paying particular regard to social and cultural aspects with media consumer in its centre.  
 
This looks quite interesting since it will give particular attention to DMB technologies as well as to social and cultural aspects.
 

Satellite Radio arrives in Canada

December 19, 2005 in Applications, Industry, Infrastructures by Administrator | 1 comment

I’m quite impressed to see that this becomes real so quickly. I went shopping tonight and took this shot:
 

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It’s not just available. It’s on the storefront in big letters. The marketing forces behind XM and Sirius will give them a lead over DAB for a while… maybe a very long while!
 
Satellite Radio is Broadcasting 2.0. It’s pay radio. DAB is also Broadcasting 2.0. It’s free digital broadcasting.

BBC Integrated Media Player (iMP)

December 19, 2005 in Applications, Infrastructures, Media formats, public broadcasting by Administrator | No comments

The BBC iMP is a great Broadcasting 2.0 software application. Since September, some lucky folks in the UK are actually testing it.
 
The software builds a peer to peer (P2P) network to support the distribution of BBC content. Each file is DRM protected and stays accessible for 7 days after its “transmission”. In other words, it’s a BBC only PVR with a one week memory. That’s quite limitative but hey, that’s just a trial. Let’s hope they get positive feedback from their community.
 
And in the meantime, the trial period has been extended until the end of February 2006.
 

Tony Ageh, BBC Controller, Internet says: “We really want to understand the benefits that iMP can bring to our audiences.

We know that there is likely to be a ‘honeymoon’ period of a few weeks, when our participants are likely to use iMP more often than normal. The data from the extra two months should really help us to comprehend what users want from the service and how they are using it.

“This will be invaluable for us in making our case to the BBC Board of Governors for a full roll out of iMP.”

 

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“About” this blog

December 19, 2005 in Divers by Administrator | No comments

I just posted a first draft of the about section for this blog. I took it from another text I wrote some time ago. It is not precisely nor extensively what I understand under Broadcasting 2.0 but it’s certainly a good start. I’ll try to work on it in the coming weeks.

CBC 2.0

December 18, 2005 in Services, public broadcasting by Administrator | No comments

A good post on “dose” where CBC’s vision of the future is questioned. That’s all Broadcasting 2.0.
Producing & disseminating audio is so cheap and easy now, and so much wonderful audio will be produced in the coming years — by smart public broadcasters, and also by joes and janes at home — all of it accessible on net. Why listen to CBC if they insist of becoming AOL audio, and do not understand what’s happening on the web? Why support an institution that does not reflect anything i believe in? (freedom, the responsibilities of a public broadcaster, diversity, non-commercialness etc).
 
In a comment, Tod Maffin provides some answers.
 

Tim Berners-Lee just started his blog

December 18, 2005 in Divers by Administrator | No comments

Well, I ‘m certainly not the WWW inventor but I started my blog two weeks before him!
 

links for 2005-12-16

December 16, 2005 in Uncategorized by delus | No comments

MPEG LASeR Standard

December 15, 2005 in Media formats, Mobility by Administrator | 1 comment

LASeR is a recent open standardization effort targeting “rich media” mobile multimedia platforms. As such, it could become a component of the broadcasting DAB and DVB-H consumer devices. 
Here is an excerpt from the technical white paper:
The inherent content and binary encoding structure makes it inappropriate for the mobile. Instead of compromising on the technology performances, MPEG reached the conclusion that an optimum between feature richness/compression efficiency and device constraints needed to be found and decided to create a new standard for Rich Media for constrained devices.

Podcasting Survey at CBC

December 14, 2005 in Media formats, Services, public broadcasting by Administrator | No comments

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,  as well as its french counterpart SRC, has a limited but good podcast offering.  CBC currently conducts a survey to better understand their listeners’ needs. Would I be paying for the podcast shows?
 
Before podcasting, my favorite radio show was “unavailable” to me. In fact, it airs daily from 9 to 11 AM while… guess what? …I’m at work. Podcasting is not just a nice to have alternative. It’s the only way I can access this great content (for which I paid for… some fractions of seconds of it at least!).
 
So before I have to pay for this, I would probably suggest to take down most of the costly FM transmitter networks and replace them by some inexpensive P2P seeding servers.
 

Media roundtrip

December 14, 2005 in Industry, Infrastructures by Administrator | No comments

A popular radio show goes to Sirius then cable tv and now, video streaming on the Internet. 50% of its 100.000 audience listens to it through podcasting. That’s Broadcasting 2.0.
 

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