monday 20 april 2009

sony creative software event at NAB 2009
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
NORTH HALL ROOM N249-N251
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

WEVA NAB 2009 open house
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
NORTH HALL ROOM N116
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

sony HD product technology seminars at NAB 2009
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
NORTH HALL ROOM N103
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

tuesday 21 april 2009

sony HD product technology seminars at NAB 2009
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
CENTRAL HALL ROOM N103
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

wednesday 22 april 2009

reduser party at NAB 2009 feature red digital cinema announcements
3:00 PM - 11:00 PM
RIO ALL SUITE CASINO AND HOTEL
AMAZON BALLROOM
3700 W FLAMINGO RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89103-4043

sony HD product technology seminars at NAB 2009
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
CENTRAL HALL ROOM N103
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

sunday 19 april 2009

autodesk user cocktail event NAB 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WYNN LAS VEGAS
SUNSET POOL
3131 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1967

tuesday 21 april 2009

8th annual final cut pro user group supermeet at NAB 2009
4:30 PM - 11:00 PM
RIO ALL SUITE CASINO AND HOTEL
AMAZON BALLROOM
3700 W FLAMINGO RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89103-4043

tuesday 12 august 2008

siggraph newtek lightwave 3D meet and greet event 2008
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM

monday 11 august 2008

siggraph the foundry nuke user event 2008
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
SHERATON LOS ANGELES DOWNTOWN HOTEL
711 S HOPE ST
LOS ANGELES CA 90017-3803

siggraph luxology modo user event 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
THE EDISON
108 W 2ND ST APT 101
LOS ANGELES CA 90012-1585

siggraph autodesk user group event 2008
6:30 PM - 12:00 AM
SHRINE AUDITORIUM
665 W JEFFERSON BLVD
LOS ANGELES CA 90007-3626

tuesday 12 august 2008

siggrraph softimage user group meeting 2008
8:00 PM - 1:00 AM
CLUB 740
740 S BROADWAY
LOS ANGELES CA 90014-2802

thursday 14 august 2008

maxon cinema 4D user group meeting 2008
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER
ROOM 503
1201 S FIGUEROA ST
LOS ANGELES CA 90015-1308

tuesday - thursday 12 - 14 august 2008

siggraph 2008 exhibit floor open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (3:30 PM on THR)
LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER
1201 S FIGUEROA ST
LOS ANGELES CA 90015-1308

monday 13 april 2008

newtek end user event NAB 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
BALLY’S LAS VEGAS
PACIFIC BALLROOM
3645 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-4321

monday 14 april 2008

sony cinealta lounge at NAB 2008
6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
BALLY’S LAS VEGAS
BALLY’S EVENT CENTER
3645 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-4321

https://www.hdnabseminars.com/

sunday 13 april 2008

autodesk user group event NAB 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
WYNN LAS VEGAS
LATOUR BALLROOM
3131 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1967

monday 14 april 2008

sony vegas user gathering at NAB 2008 with VASST, AMD, and Microsoft
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
NORTH HALL ROOM 250
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

tuesday 15 april 2008

promax 13th annual charles mcconathy digital cafe
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
SANDS EXPO CONVENTION CENTER
201 SANDS AVE
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-2617

wednesday 16 april 2008

7th annual final cut pro user group supermeet at NAB 2008
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM
MGM GRAND LAS VEGAS
MGM CONFERENCE CENTER
GRAND BALLROOM
3799 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-4319

sunday 5 august 2007

luxology modo user event
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
SAN DIEGO AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
2001 PAN AMERICAN PLZ
SAN DIEGO CA 92101-1636

monday 6 august 2007

autodesk user group event
5:00 PM - 1:00 AM
SAN DIEGO MARRIOTT HOTEL AND MARINA
MARRIOTT HALL 1-6
333 W HARBOR DR
SAN DIEGO CA 92101-7709

tuesday 7 august 2007

softimage user group meeting
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
SPRECKELS BLDG
121 BROADWAY
SAN DIEGO CA 92101-5006

tuesday - thursday 7 - 9 august 2007

siggraph exhibit floor open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (3:30 PM on THR)
SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER
111 W HARBOR DR
SAN DIEGO CA 92101-7899

is this the start of a software subscription model for apple? to date, final cut studio and mac OS X have software licenses that last in perpetuity. the iphone includes the ability to play music and watch videos, but requires activation. what will happen after the initial subscription is over? will the iphone continue to work, or become a very expensive paper weight? if you continue to pay your phone bill, i’m sure apple will update the applications and iphone OS, but can you get updates without the AT&T contract?

sunday 15 april 2007

apple NAB 2007 presentation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
THE VENETIAN RESORT HOTEL CASINO
THE VENETIAN BALLROOM
3355 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-8941

autodesk user group event NAB 2007
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
CAESARS PALACE
CLAUDIUS BALLROOM
3570 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-8924

avid customer event NAB 2007
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
HARD ROCK HOTEL AND CASINO LAS VEGAS
THE JOINT
4455 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-6574

newtek cool friends event NAB 2007
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
RIVIERA HOTEL AND CASINO
ROYALE PAVILION 2 AND 3
2901 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1933

monday 16 april 2007

sony vegas user gathering at NAB 2007
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
ROOM N250
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

tuesday 17 april 2007

boris FX user group meeting NAB 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
BOOTH SL10520
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

promax 12th annual charles mcconathy digital cafe
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
EMPIRE BALLROOM
3765 LAS VEGAS BLVD S STE G
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-4313

wednesday 18 april 2007

final cut pro user group supermeet at NAB 2007
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
THE VENETIAN RESORT HOTEL CASINO
PALAZZO BALLROOM
3355 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-8941

the first holographic storage system will most likely be over $10,000 and address only the most needy high volume broadcaster or studio. the consumer versions of such devices most like will not see the light of day until 2010. for the rest of us with 500 GB and 750 GB hard drives with archive in mind, we have the foolhardy disk to disk solution, or a very tall stack of DVD or blu-ray discs. more than likely for 2006 and 2007 we’ll still be using LTO2 of LTO3 tapes for the archive, holding either 200 GB or 400 GB per cartridge.

read the apple report to find out more on who makes the products we use every day.

monday 31 july 2006

autodesk user group meeting
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
THE WESTIN BOSTON WATERFRONT
CONCOURSE LEVEL
GRAND BALLROOM
425 SUMMER ST
BOSTON MA 02210-1719

NVIDIA gelato user group meeting
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
110 HUNTINGTON AVE
BOSTON MA 02116-5706

tuesday 1 august 2006

apple shake ‘n’ final cut studio meeting
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
SEAPORT HOTEL
SEAPORT BALLROOM
1 SEAPORT LN
BOSTON MA 02210-2013

newtek lightwave 09 SIGGRAPH launch party
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
CENTRAL WHARF
BOSTON MA 02110-3399

softimage user group meeting
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
SEAPORT HOTEL
PLAZA BALLROOM
1 SEAPORT LN
BOSTON MA 02210-2013

tuesday - thursday 1 - 3 august 2006

siggraph exhibit floor open
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (3:30 PM on THR)
BOSTON CONVENTION & EXHIBITION CENTER
415 SUMMER ST
BOSTON MA 02210-1719
get an exhibition only pass code from newtek

microsoft has it’s foothold, some say a monopoly on the desktop, server, and database industries. microsoft is moving rapidly into the storage arena, and trying to grab the digital living room. bill gates is just one guy, but he was the headliner for microsoft making presentations at comdex, CES, RSA, and winHEC. a portion of the microsoft initiatives have broken, but other actions have become dominant like windows OS, and the office suite. microsoft powerpoint is synonymous with presentation. microsoft word and .doc is equivalent to digital documents.

bill gates is not leaving due to windows flaws, windows viruses, windows spyware, or delayed windows vista. he truly wants to spend his billions on making a dent in world health and education. will bill gates become the next andrew carnegie? we’ll see.

the future looks very bright for apple riding in the wings of intel.

it always seemed foolish that after spending $1000 or even $2000 on a display, you could not hook up a ATSC HD tuner. with DVI-HDCP the tables turn, and any valid DVI signal will be decoded, if it originates from a NVIDIA or ATI card or a next generation disc player. i would suspect that both mac OS X leopard and windows vista will support HDCP for computer playback of protected content.

2 may 2006
quantum corporation acquires Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC)

ADIC is the basis for apple mac OS X xsan technology using stornext FX. quantum a few years ago aquired the tape business of seagate technology called certance.

8 march 2006
micron technology buys lexar media
micron, a leader in DRAM, want to be a leader in NAND flash memory.

28 february 2006
avid aquired medea corporation, an innovator in PATA/SATA RAID storage.

21 december 2006
seagate technology buys maxtor

consumers have seagate technology, hitachi global storage technologies, and western digital.

sunday 23 april 2006

apple computer NAB 2006 presentation
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
details to follow

boris FX user group meeting NAB 2006
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
LAS VEGAS HILTON
BALLROOMS D-E
3000 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1287

avid user group event NAB 2006
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
HARD ROCK HOTEL AND CASINO LAS VEGAS
THE JOINT
4455 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-6574

newtek friends unite NAB 2006
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
RIVIERA HOTEL AND CASINO
GRAND BALLROOM C
2901 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1933

tuesday 25 april 2006

weva town meeting NAB 2006
5:00 PM - 9:30 PM
LUXOR LAS VEGAS
3900 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89119-1004

promax 11th annual charles mcconathy digital cafe
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
STARDUST RESORT AND CASINO
CONFERENCE CENTER
3000 LAS VEGAS BLVD S
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-1932

sony vegas user gathering at NAB 2006
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
NORTH HALL ROOM N259
3150 PARADISE RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

autodesk after hours panel
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
LAS VEGAS CONVENTION CENTER
SOUTH HALL BOOTH SL3719
NORTH HALL ROOM N259
3150 PARADISE RD

LAS VEGAS NV 89109-9096

wednesday 26 april 2006

final cut pro user group supermeet at NAB 2006
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
RIO ALL SUITE CASINO AND HOTEL
BRASILIA BALLROOM
3700 W FLAMINGO RD
LAS VEGAS NV 89103-4043

from reports, the rosetta technology is effective in translating the powerPC code into intel core duo speak, but the performance has not been up to snuff with native algorithyms. of course, safari, mail, ichat AV, itunes, and ical work great, and the expectations of final cut studio and announced features of aperture 1.1 on intel will live up the the partnership apple and intel made last june 2005. we all want the transition from G5 RISC to core dou X86 heritage.

the next generation of chips, based on the intel core microarchitecture look even better, as they will integrate rich x64 architecture, industry leading performance per watt specificiations, and bring the intel processors on par with AMD opteron and athlon processors. intel might have been a little late to the 64-bit party, but with the juggernaught of resources and engineering gusto, late 2006 will be the time apple+intel shines.

apple computer has announced a crossgrade program for their pro apps including, final cut studio, logic, and aperture. when these application ship, if you do no fork over the crossgrade fee, your application version will be retired. developers will not continue to support three customers: powerPC only, intel only, universal. that’s too much work to test, so you’ll need the universal version to work properly. most likely major applications will move to the universal code on the next major revision to avoid these upgrade issues. hopefully at NAB 2006, apple will revise all their applications to the next version to make moot the move to universal unnecessary for powerPC workflows.

when it comes to media development, the mac is the way to go with final cut pro, motion, DVD studio pro, shake, logic pro, soundtrack pro, and aperture. adobe has after effects professional, premiere pro, photoshop, audition, encore DVD, and illustrator. of the adobe production studio, only after effects, photoshop, and illustrator work on the mac. if one needs to edit sound using audition, or authoring a DVD using encore DVD, or even editing a project using premiere pro, you have to use a windows based PC.

the lines are blurring in the coming year as both the mac and windows PC will utilize the same GPU (NVIDIA or ATI), CPU (intel core duo), and motherboard architecture (intel chipsets), so the apples to oranges comparison will no longer hold. no more will we have to guess what operating system based on the powerPC or intel core duo will reign supreme. when we have similar applications that run equally well natively on microsoft windows as well as apple mac OS X on the more or less the same hardware, we will know who makes the better machine.

i look forward to seeing where adobe takes its mac development, as the operating systems will determine the moves and motivations of customers, instead of the decisions of IBM versus intel, or freescale versus AMD. It’s an intel world now. May the best OS win.

intel has already reshaped their company logo and processor line for what looks be be an incredible year of product introductions. yahoo and google move outside of internet search to offer a whole slew of web services and applications, some may say only now at a nascent level. computer processors and graphics engines have already exceeded the expectations of the average user generating e-mail, simple documents, and balancing a spreadsheet, but with the introduction of high definitions video and multi channel audio, even the consumer wants a few processors to rev up the music rips, transfer of photos on to portable viewing devices, and simple HD editing. What a year 2006 will be.

storage has never been cheaper, with some mechanism approaching 25???°¬¨¬®¬¨¬¢ a GB, with normal prices around 50???°¬¨¬®¬¨¬¢ a GB. will pricing and innovation increase, or shunt? 2006 should see the introduction of 1 TB hard drives.

if you would have asked me a few months ago about the intel platform, i would say it was good for the x86 operating systems (solaris, linux, irix, windows), but did not have much of an impact, since i was a mac user. this summer everything changed and i’ve become a intel fan.

intel has some work to do to improve the energy efficiency and performance of their silicon, but in about a year, there stuff will rock our world. they’ve been working on a few initiatives ever since andy grove left the company. they’ve botched up a few items like itanium and the calyley (LCOS) microdisplays. grove lead intel for almost 20 years, replacing gordon moore, until craig barrett took the reign for a short 7 years, and now we have paul otellini. otellini took over in may 2005, and for his debut announced that apple computer is their latest customer. then came the woodcrest, conroe, and merom stuff in september at IDF, and next month otellini will keynote at CES 2006 in las vegas releasing the viiv platform.

i wonder when apple will keynote at CES? so 2006 will be a great year for intel and apple as their partnership may start as early as january at macworld expo 2006 in san francisco, and i can’t wait for some great products. sometime in 2006 we should hear about mac OS X leopard, the successor to mac OS X tiger, which should ship around the same time as microsoft windows vista (Q1 2007). never before, in my recollection have apple customers been privy to such long term planning, and budgeting so we should know when to upgrade systems and applications.

apple has a fantastic digital media platform based on final cut pro. in this suite of products called final cut studio, we have DVD studio pro, soundtrack pro, motion, and complementary shake and logic. these applications make staying on the mac platform worth the long wait, since these apps are so tightly integrated into the OS. they perform well, have regular upgrades, and have a devoted user community. in los angeles, i get to go to three monthly user group meetings:

motion graphics los angeles
los angeles final cut pro user group
los angeles logic pro user group

the future is bright. apple will lead the way into the intel transition. apple consumer electronics like ipod and future stuff will lead in new growth and dominance.

so as the year closes out, merry Christmas and happy new year to all. 2006 should be the true transitional year from powerPC to intel, NTSC (SDTV) to ATSC (HDTV), AG-DVX100B to AG-HVX200, and war to peace (i pray).

$ 9.95/month napster music
$24.99/month sirius satellite radio
$24.99/month brinks home security monitoring
$12.95/month TiVo
$39.99/month mobile phone service
$16.95/month OnStar in-vehicle system

so these basic services will set you back around $130 a month, and that still does not include other utilities (gas, electric, water, and phone), automobile services, magazines and newspapers, and cable/satellite television. will 2006 finally bring in the monthly computer rental, where over a large broadband pipe, you get to use a computer with many applications, but administer nothing?

always start with a current backup of the mySQL database exporting all relevant tables and in the structure tab selecting add drop table, add auto_increment value, enclose table and field names with backquotes, complete inserts, use hexadecimal for binary fields, save as file, with no compression. from there you might have to change the default location of the site and run a the installer script on the original mambo SQL called migrate_Mambo4523_to_Joomla_100.sql to make the administrator panel work again. after a few hours of recovery, you’ll have your very own joomla server up and running. goodbye miro and mambo.

using phpmyadmin i also had to cut and paste the text into the script window, since the browse text file failed every time.

my mistake was simple, but fatal. all i had to do was use phpmyadmin to drop the new blank data, and restore the old data from my last backup. when i tried if first, i got an error #1064, and something about bad syntax. i did a google search, and found many suggestions as bleak as it’s all over, to try a second time. after around five times, i thought if i reinstall the basic components it would work, so i removed mySQL, PHP, phpmyadmin, joomla, wordpress, and started from scratch.

i’m using a very robust server from westhost, and everything seemed to be working. i even installed perl and python for good measure, but when i got to PHP version 4.x and even PHP version 5.x it was failing to install. this is a remote install using a powerful site control panel. on occasion it would time out, but i would in the past log right back in to try the install. after 45 minutes of install/uninstall frustration, i decided it was not my multiple browsers, but something on my host computer. i wrote around 11 AM to westhost support, and finally around 4 PM got the fix.

so now with a clean install of the underlying architecture, i thought for sure i could get wordpress up again, but i got the same syntax error. using a fine text editor, textwrangler, i tried my last attempt to cut and paste the table definitions into phpmyadmin, and that solved the odd syntax errors. i don’t know if the browser upload function added special characters or removed backquotes, or what, but a simple text paste solved my seven hour site down warning.

i will be more dutiful next time i want to upgrade my site technology. i will not blame PHP or mySQL and concentrate only on the application.

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what you see a macworld you get to use immediately, but what you see at CES comes in october, so i expect to see blu-ray and hi-def recording devices. for all those that are going, do use the best internet technology to find the best prices on flights, trains, and places to stay. i start with kayak, then move to orbitz and travelocity. some airlines only book direct like southwest.

sun microsystems has open solaris for the x64 platform, microsoft was windows XP x64, red hat linux runs on x64, novell SUSU linux runs on x64, and coming next year, mac OS X will run on x64. each hardware vendor can optimize the hardware by selecting various ASIC’s and components to maximize applications to make their respective OS shine. we are just eight months away from the mac OS X tiger x64 release, and data centers around the globe are preparing for the transition.

sun in june 2005 started a share ad campaign, with employees, industry partners, and visionaries. in the new age of participation computing users bid, podcast, download, school, and live on the web. every device, from a handheld, desktop, and light bulb have IP addresses to communication on the participation highway. sun wants to build the infrastructure for the next data center, in direct competition with IBM.

sun has some compelling strengths like complete control of solaris OS and hardware, even though they are moving aggressively into standardized hardware based on X64 architecture. as a company, like other industries, green computing (low cost, low energy density, low administration, high performance) is also a factor.

their technologies to make this all happen are display over IP, star office, java desktop, and java enterprise system.

i find it impressive on how many clocks require adjustment. fortunately, desktop and notebook machine usually have a network time server to work, so their clocks are updated automatically. it’s the DV camcorders, televisions, digital photo cameras, automobile clocks, watches, phones, thermostats, microwaves, wall clocks, cuckoo clocks, and other time pieces requiring modification. every year, another device comes on the marketplace, like an ipod or portable DVD player that also needs adjustment. good luck finding all those devices before 2 AM sunday morning.

last week apple announced three new power mac systems, all with dual-core CPU and access to the fastest GPU’s available from NVIDIA. expect the fastest ATI GPU’s in a future announcement. all machine also inherit faster RAM, and a new PCI-express (PCIe) architecture, a change from the AGP and PCI-X motherboards of previous generations. the old PCI standard was a parallel strategy whereas PCIe is serial, much like the move from IDE/ATA drives to SATA drives.

the user community welcomes the new systems, especially the power mac G5 quad, a sight to behold when it comes out next month. some users are balking that their investments have come to a crash, as PCIe systems will not allow the use of PCI-X or PCI conventional cards at all. PCIe is an entirely new architecture, not just a faster revision of the PCI workhorse cards. this is not a driver issue, but the cards don’t fit, much less work. maybe in the future a riser may come along that bridges from PCI conventional/PCI-X to PCIe, but not today.

in some professional industries the PCI investment may exceed 2 or 3 times the investment in the system, with VBR MPEG-2 boards, SDI boards, audio boards, and connectivity boards easily surpassing $1000 and up. the one consolation to these folks is the CPU rating stayed the same in the 2.0 GHz and 2.3 GHz dual G5, and while they last in the marketplace, the PCI-X machines, along with PC3200 RAM, are still available. get them while you still can, because in a few weeks the only thing out there will be PCIe and PC2-4200 RAM.

finally the partnership with NVIDIA and apple pays off with the availability of professional graphics cards. we say a farewell to the geforce line and welcome the quadro PCIe chipsets to the mac. now i believe 3D software will work on par with wintel systems and linux systems.

november 2005 cannot come soon enough to get my hands on one of these fantastic products. the intel product line is a long ways away. i predict sometime during macworld SF 2007 with the intel chipsets inside the powermac. portable systems will get intel inside by june 2006.

multiple companies including apple, IBM, Barco, Dolby Laboratories, Fraunhofer Institute, HP, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Electronics, TANDBERG television, and Texas Instruments have all joined forces to give consumers product choice and unlimited possibilities. the fruits of that partnership were the first successful H.264 or AVC product, the sony playstation portable device, and now the second mass consumer product, the apple ipod.

north american disney TV shows are only the start of what is possible in AVC. the codec can scale from mobile phones at 128 pixels all the way to 1080 pixels high definitions images. all media is going to AVC for content delivery for quality, compression efficiency, and broad support through the consumer electronics industry, information technology industry, and broadcast industry.

today, apple announced the latest imac, and aside from the wonderful home technology hub, the most significant move in my mind is the retirement of the accelerated graphics port( AGP graphics). most high end graphics subsystems require not AGP 4X or 8X, but higher end PCI-express (PCIe), and now the fall 2005 imac includes a radeon PCIe for access to next generation GPU’s.

sometimes apple surprises the mac community by launching newer technology into the imac in advance of the workstations like the powermac or servers like the xserve. i hope PCIe makes it to xserve and powermac lines very soon, so anyone can access highest ATI or NVIDIA technology.

maya and motion builder were also the power players on mac OS X, so maybe 3ds Max may move to OS X too, but maybe they’ll drop support on my platform of choice.

since the festival is digital, all a city really needs is a digital theatre and a input device, be it a tape, hard drive array, or satellite receiving station. the majority of images were HD, but some where at SD resolution. the star of the show was the new technology exhibits from panasonic and canon. resfest not only exhibited the latest in motion capture, motion graphics, animation, avant-garde cinema, and documentary, but previewed for the first time affordable high quality 720p and 1080p motion video capture. what used to cost $125,000 yesterday will be under $10,000 tomorrow. stay tuned.

this Christmas season, i expect to see samsung, sharp, NEC, and other LCD display manufactures to latch on to high color gamut LED backlights, instead of a florescent light, or in a hybrid grid. zigbee any day now will be in the eaton electrical home heartbeat.

in a final note, tripp lite has finally released a product that works natively in mac OS X. ever since mac OS X jaguar, apple has provided system level USB uninterruptible power supply (UPS) support. only APC had products, but now tripp lite announced the SMART1000LCD for a great price and 1000VA.

sprint launched their ION system many years ago, while start-ups charge ahead with new software advancements. i think google picasa premiered at DEMO, but i may be wrong. look to cloak media to cover the relevant topics after these shows close.

i wonder if history will look back on this era and highlight the major foci of this generation. first we had 9/11, followed by the iraq occupation, followed by abu ghraib, and today katrina. this is my country’s legacy and heritage that will most likely outlive us all.

this is a cold test of the vulnerability of LA to any type of attack. in a scenario of radiological or biological strike, a blackout event draws people out of their homes and business into the street to find out what happened. in a few short minutes the toxic agent is released, and since a bulk of the community is outdoors, gets an exposure. fortunately, it was not an attack, but shear incompetence. still, it is a terrible test that LADWP failed miserably, that a crossed wire could cripple a city for over three hours, and for some ten hours!

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Cloak Media Portal Launch

LOS ANGELES-September 8, 2005-Cloak Media introduces a web portal site dedicated to the coming solid state high definition entertainment and electronic news gathering workflows and toolsets. The site’s focus is on how Apple solutions like Final Cut Pro, Mac OS X Client, QuickTime, and Mac OS X Server meld into the new era, as video tape is eliminated and replaced by flash memory devices and video ingested to storage area networks (SAN).

Cloak Media news topics include the comparison of iSCSI SAN to fibre channel SAN, IBC 2005 Panasonic announcement of a prototype AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD camcorder, next generation gigabit SAN via internet protocols (IP storage), Intel processors inside the Mac, and the software a media architect will use to transform information and broadcasting.

As computer platforms move into the living room, into palm sized devices, and into wireless devices, the production pipelines must become more effective, and demonstrate reductions in system administration. Use Cloak Media portal to manage the ebbing information technology maelstrom.

Pricing and Availability
The Cloak Media website, at www.cloakmedia.com is available immediately free of charge.

For Information: http://www.cloakmedia.com/

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