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DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) today announced that its DTS Coherent Acoustics coding system has been selected as mandatory audio technology for both the Blu-ray Disc (BD) and High Definition Digital Versatile Disc (HD-DVD), the two next generation high-definition disc formats for home video. In addition to the Company's core technology, DTS' extension technologies have also been selected as options. ...Read More » [Digital Pro Sound News] Last week it was Dolby. This week it's DTS. Both are mandatory standards. .< 11:32:54 PM  >DIY radio with PODcasting But now most of my radio listening is to what Adam Curry and others are starting to call podcasts. That last link currently brings up 24 results on Google. A year from now, it will pull up hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions. The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it's live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it's Net-native. That is, it's archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience of the listener, and (this is key) that it can be linked to by others, and enclosed in an RSS feed. PODcasting will shift much of our time away from an old medium where we wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium where we choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and how we want to give everybody else the option to listen to it as well. .< 11:25:05 PM >A new Trade Secrets is up .... A new Trade Secrets is up. In it Adam and I discuss the merits of Mac vs Windows. Now of course I'm getting (friendly) email from people suggesting that I get a Mac. I'll make a deal. If John Kerry wins I'll get a Mac. ";->" [Scripting News] .< 11:19:35 PM >Blair Offers an Apology, of Sorts, Over Iraq Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a qualified apology that the evidence on which he had taken Britain to war had proved wrong. [New York Times: International] .< 12:39:06 AM >TidBITS: Editing Photographs for the Perfectionist This year my perfectionist mode has gone digital and my computer has replaced my darkroom. To effect this change, I reviewed all of the photo-editing software available for the Mac. In this article I shall summarize my take on the most suitable products available for the perfectionist to finish photographs. Wow. Lots of amazing information. I'll have to come back here when I get my Digital Rebel. .< 12:22:57 AM >For Whatever Reasons Daring Fireball: For Whatever Reasons: “USA Today technology columnist Kevin Maney complained last week about having been hit hard by a Windows virus on his home computer: ‘My computer was only 18 months old. I wasn’t totally naïve...’” [Ranchero.com] It's getting serious folks. Really. Get a Mac. .< 12:16:28 AM >BBC : "King Abdullah of Jordan says... BBC: "King Abdullah of Jordan says it will be impossible to hold elections in Iraq in the current state of chaos there." [Scripting News] |
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