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Redbox comes with the latest news: they are running a survey where they ask their customers if a movie streaming service similar to Netflix shall be implemented or not. As you may already know Redbox specializes in renting DVD’s via interactive kiosks and now they are running some tests to offer video games rentals. They [...]

Nowadays online video rental services are even more popular since YouTube has announced it’s new strategy. The major movie studios are getting involved by offering video content on web platforms such as YouTube. Lionsgate, Time Warner and Sony are just a few of the major production companies who have made these announcements. This particular philosophy [...]

VESA (The Video Electronics Standards Association) has announced the release of 1.2 Displayport which is a big step ahead HDMI. Displayport is a digital display interface standard. This new standard doubles the data transfer rate taking it from 10.8 GBps to 21.6 GBps. Here are some additional improvements: – better refresh rates – multiple display [...]

Soon you won’t even need a DVD player to play your movies as the guys from Nintendo are negociating with Netflix for adding a streaming service from the Wii. In 2008 Microsoft were the first company to offer Netflix services on a console then Sony (on their PS3 platform) in 2009 and now Nintendo follows [...]

Mobility is a very important component when talking about the streaming media industry that’s why the smartphones and mobile devices become a must have for the end users who needed alternative ways of accessing video content. For example a lot of iPhone, iPod apps have been developed and another challange was creating content being supported [...]

VOD is the technology allowing viewers to watch or listen video or audio content on demand. A VOD system at the end user level is basicly about having a standard TV receiver combined with a set top box. At the same time, this service may be delivered via the Internet to PC’s, laptops or other [...]

The AVI Format The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format was created and released by Microsoft. Being a very common format, computers operating Windows and also most of the web browsers as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari support it. The video files encoded in AVI can be easily recognized by their extension:example “videofile.avi” .Systems running other [...]

H.264 is an industry standard for video compression. Video compression can be defined as the process of converting digital video into a format that reduces the file size for when it is stored or transmitted. An H.264 video encoder carries out prediction and encoding processes to produce a compressed H.264 bitstream. Video compression (or video [...]

A codec is the technology being used for data files compression/decompression processes. In the broadcasting sector the term reffers to a device being capable of turning analog audio and video into digital form. It is also capable of doing the turn back process: digital to analog. Proper codecs installed avoids the situation when you encounter [...]

Deinterlacing is the process taking a stream of interlaced frames and converting it to a stream of progressive frames. Ideally, each field becomes its own frame of video, so an interlaced NTSC clip at 29.97 frames per second stream becomes a 59.94 frame per second progressive. Since each field is only half the scanlines of [...]