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Alex Street

Excel IF Function Tutorial - How the IF Function Works - 0 views

  • introducing decision making
  • testing a specified condition i
  • if it is true or false
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  • If the condition is true, the function will carry out one action. If the condition is false, it will carry out a different action.
  • executing a formula, inserting a text statement, or leaving the target cell blank.
Alex Street

Difference between progressive download and streaming online videos - 0 views

  • Streaming video requires access to a streaming media server.
  • When a video streams, it is being sent via UDP protocol to a player on the end users compter. The user will have the ability to fast forward or rewind the video.
  • video isn't being downloaded to the end users computer so it is less likely that the content will be stolen
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  • Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use
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    The biggest disadvantage of streaming over progressive download is if the user watches the same video over and over you will pay for the delivery of it each time. Videos are also streamed at what ever bit rate they are encoded at. Keep this in mind when creating HD quality video. 8Mbps video may sound and look great, but most homes can't sustain an 8Mbps connection. If you have really high bit rate video, consider delivering via HTTP. Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use. Historically, Flash video was more expensive to deliver than other forms. Recently prices have compressed and you will find that it costs about the same to deliver Flash or Windows Media files. In the past I would have said if your video is more than 10 minutes in length deliver it via Stream and less do progressive. Since prices
Alex Street

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
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  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Sasha Roupell

Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ | whathifi.com - 0 views

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    Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ 8 Mar 2012 Sky has expanded its pay-per-view movie offering for customers with Sky Anytime+. The new Sky Store replaces Sky Box Office and has over 1000 films available to watch on-demand. SD movies start at just 99p, rising to £3.99 for blockbuster new movies in HD. Sky also confirmed that Sky Anytime+ will be available to all Sky customers from Easter - a Sky Broadband subscription will no longer be required. Sky Anytime+ delivers a wide range of on-demand content for free as well as offering pay-per-view films. Sky is at pains to point out that its pay-per-view movies, via the new Sky Store if you're an Anytime+ customer, are cheaper than iTunes and Lovefilm in many instances. New releases are £3.49, library movies are £1.99 and special offers are 99p. HD films rather than SD will cost 50p more. Sky Box Office will continue as the place for non-Sky Anytime+ customers to choose from a more limited range of the latest movies on the live channels from £3.49 per title. All Sky TV customers meanwhile can rent movies on a pay-per-view basis from the new Sky Store on laptops via the Sky Go application, which already has a Sky Movies application, too.
Alex Street

If cord cutting is a myth, why is Wall Street so jittery? - FierceIPTV - 0 views

  • 13 percent are "very likely" to cut the cord in the next 18 months
  • pple TV, Google TV and connected TVs are added to the equation, that number tickles 20 percent. A
  • erosion in pay-TV subscribers
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  • company said pay-TV operators would have to cut their rates (GASP!) in order to keep subscriber
  • poor state of the economy
  • ct of the analog to digital switchover
  • mall, rogue element of malcontents
  • perceived value of pay-TV offerings
Alex Street

Blinkbox Entertainment capitalises on video-on-demand - Times Online - 0 views

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    s either rented for 48 hours or bought outright. If bought, it can b
David Astle

Open Source Lion Tracking Collars by GRND Lab LLC - Kickstarter - 0 views

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    How is this tracking collar prototype different from the current tracking technology in use today? It differs greatly because it will remain an open source technology, making it free and easily accessible to the public. This has the effect that if the technology is used by the large community of researchers in Kenya (i.e. lion, elephant or climate researchers) they would be able to share valuable data in real time, rather than delaying the process with incompatible technologies. This would save these foundations large amounts of time and mon
Alex Street

PS3 HDMI resolution and refresh rate | AVForums.com - UK Online - 0 views

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    he only time it will switch to 50Hz is when playing upscaled SD DVD (Blu-ray is at either 60Hz (59.94 to be precise) or 1080p24 (23.976Hz)) or if you set the XMB to 576p.
Alex Street

Costs mobile data - O2 - 0 views

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    What is 1MB of data? 1MB* on average is: Browsing - using the internet on your O2 mobile O2 Active 40 pages approx Mobile internet sites outside of O2 (typically 3rd party websites not controlled by O2): 2-10 full web pages (depending on graphics, images, amount of text) 10-20 mobile web pages Sending and receiving E-mail from your O2 mobile 200 emails without attachment 10 emails with simple one page attachment Satellite Navigation 15 hours of Satellite navigation traffic alert service. Please note: Using GPS Sat Nav without the traffic alert service does not incur data charges. Important information The following services when provided by a 3rd party may consume large amounts of data and maybe subject to separate charge. We recommend you take a Browsing Bolt On if you use these services regularly: Downloading video clips from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB depending on the length and quality of the clip, plus the cost of the video Note - Downloading video clips/music/games from O2 costs the price of the content only with no additional data charges. Downloading high quality music tracks from 3rd party: typically between 1MB and 5MB per track depending on the length and quality of the track, plus the cost of the track Downloading games from 3rd party: typically 300KB, plus the cost of the game We recommend that you avoid the following on your mobile: Using VOIP** uses 1 MB of data every 3-4 minutes. Downloading full-length movies as this may use in excess of 1,000MB. Using video/ audio streaming devices (e.g. 'Sling box'), which connect your mobile device to your TV, also consume large amounts of data. Watching 15 minutes of TV on your mobile using these devices uses around 25MB. * These figures are based on typical usage. Actual data usage will depend on the content of web pages viewed and the length of emails sent/received. ** Typical VOIP usage is around 5KB per second but will depend on a number of variables including codec and voice sample t
Alex Street

What is Video Streaming? | LongTail Video | Home of the JW Player - 1 views

  • video delivery mechanisms
  • three widely used ways
  • Progressive Download, RTMP/RTSP Streaming, and Adaptive HTTP Streaming
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  • Progressive Download is the most widely used
  • easiest to implement
  • Progressive Download is supported by Flash, HTML5 browsers
  • bandwidth is wasted on data downloaded but not watched
  • simplicity of Progressive Download also has its downsides.
  • inability to change the quality of the video mid-stream
  • For longer videos, the downsides start to impact playback too much
  • Progressive Download works fine for short clips (a few minutes).
  • RTSP/RTMP Streaming
  • RTMP/RTSP Streaming is widely used by professional media organizations like Hulu
  • only deliver the frames of a video the user is currently watchin
  • most widely solution is used is RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol)
  • HTML5 does not include a dedicated streaming protocol, nor does the iPad/iPhone
  • RTMP streaming can change video quality mid-stream
  • allows for optimal playback quality in the fullscreen and WiFi/3G scenarios
  • if the connection speed drops below the minimum bandwidth needed for the video, playback will be continuously interrupted.
  • has specific server and protocol requirements, which makes it less accessible and adds significant complexity and cost
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming is a fairly new streaming format
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming works by storing your videos on the server in small fragment
  • daptive HTTP Streaming leverages standard webservers, it is supported by webhosters and CDNs alike.
  • none of the Adaptive HTTP Streaming implementations work with regular MP4 files.
  • Adaptive HTTP Streaming will likely become the single video streaming method over time
  • live streaming is not possible,
  • o data is downloaded in advance and data a user has seen is immediately discarded.
Alex Street

Netflix could beat cable TV in Latin America - Online Video News - 0 views

  • Netflix could become the primary subscription video service that many Latin American consumers pay for.
  • Less than a quarter of residents pay for cable or satellite
  • Brazil and Argentina — broadband penetration is actually greater than pay TV adoption.
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  • C]ompetition from Pay TV providers (and TV Everywhere-like services) is weak if not non-existent in Latin America
  • average broadband speed in the region to be about 2 Mbps
  • good enough for Netflix’s “Good” streaming quality, which is set at about 700 kbps
  • issue of broadband caps, which cropped up in Netflix’s Canadian rollout a
  • Brazilian ISPs have caps as low as 10 GB of data, which represents about 30 hours of content
  • 15-20 movies a month.
  • Goldman Sachs believes it was able to get good terms for catalog content in a region where studios weren’t able to monetize those assets
  • only thing holding Netflix back is having a recognizable brand throughout.
  • many potential users in Latin America likely have no idea what Netflix is.
  • Goldman Sachs expects the adoption rate to be much slower,
  • time it takes to break even in Latin America to be about twice as long as the 12 months Netflix expects it to take its Canadian venture to break even.
Alex Street

Ofcom asks Arqiva to stick price on 600MHz spectrum * The Register - 1 views

  • stick price on 600MHz
  • building an LTE network or similar would be expensive
  • regulator has asked Arqiva to work out what it would charge someone to broadcast TV in the space
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  • would fit six new HD TV channels
  • band isn't very valuable for anything else, as there's no international harmonisation
  • no economies of scale.
  • working out how much it would cost to broadcast a national TV multiplex
  • Ofcom wants to auction it off,
  • regulator can't do that until the upper part of the Digital Dividend is mapped out (if not auctioned off) and the potential value of the 600MHz band is well understood
  • provide indicative pricing in case anyone fancies launching some TV channels at 600MH
Alex Street

Analyst: Paywall Subscribers Worth A Quarter Of Print Readers | paidContent - 0 views

  • Annual income per paywall subscriber on TheTimes.co.uk and WSJ.com is just a quarter that from subscriber
  • Switching off the presses
  • might save newspapers 25 percent of their total costs
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  • quandary of trading physical dollars for digital dimes
  • negatively to TheTimes.co.uk’s paywall: “We are just not advertising on it. If there’s no traffic on there
  • counter print circulation decline, publishers have added 20 percent more pages in the last decade, allowing the quality dailies to drive up cover prices by 112 percent
  • inflating the paper will no longer work: deflation is now the agenda,
Alex Street

Wii behind a proxy server - Nintendo Wii Forum - 0 views

  • f you are the one owning the accesspoint or if the proxy is after the AP then you could install a router software on your PC and tell the Wii to route the trafic thru your computer.
  • Wii <---> Wireless device <---> Windowsbox <---> VPN <---> Internet
Alex Street

informitv - Views on YouView from Decipher - 0 views

  • informitv partners Decipher
  • market had failed to provide a solution for TV VOD’ —
  • By the time YouView launches in mid-2011 it will be just another product in an over-supplied market for video-on-demand devices
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  • seven or eight products on sale in the United Kingdom
  • Every new Sony Bravia television screen and Blu-ray disk player has iPlaye
  • every PS3 ever sold in UK can already access iPlayer
  • TV Player, Demand Five and LoveFilm.
  • YouView can only justify itself, and survive commercially, if it delivers something significantly different and compelling into a market already
  • broadcast-centric way of presenting VOD
  • atform is designed and owned by companies that understand content’. I
  • At the outset, the Canvas project was put into the hands of many of the teams who had launched PC VOD ‘players’ for the broadcasters
  • Now it must be said that YouView is likely to be the only player in the short term with catch-up content from all the free-to-air broadcasters
  • Nigel Walley is the managing director of Decipher, an informitv partner.
Alex Street

IPTV Forums - NEW YORK CITY Slingbox Rental service, Great Quality, Service & Price :) - 0 views

  • Wondering if anyone wants to rent a slingbox hooked up to New York City television (
  • closest slingbox provider in the US you can get, (I
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    ve High Speed upload (2-3MB) and can easily sling around the World
Alex Street

DVD Intelligence - FEATURE: Physical media are hanging on for dear life - 0 views

  • Amazon.com’s deep discounting
  • deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,
  • Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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  • one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
  • Amoeba Musi
  • huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
  • depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
  • HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
  • If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
  • the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
  • £145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
  • 1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
  • Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
  • Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
  • ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
  • consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
  • enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
  • Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
  • The Death of Bunny Munro, w
  • transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
  • mass media to develop media franchises
  • type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
Alex Street

Social Commerce Breakdown: How Levi's and Facebook Prompt Your Friends To Imp... - 0 views

  • Social Gestures (Above Screenshot
  • Social Commerce (Above Screenshot
  • Facebook data, Levi’s creates a personalized shopping cart based on what your friends have s
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  • Your friends are shopping with you –even if they aren’t present
  • A more engaged user, without forcing them through registration.
  • Consumers take part in marketing and recommendations, increasing upsell opportunity
  • customers trust each other or ‘people like them’
  • Social commerce vendors will integrate with Social CRM
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