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 Wednesday, 9 November 2005
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MPG event 2005 comparison with analoge and digital recording
The MPG held an event at London's British Grove Studios to compare analoge with digital recording. Three digital contenders battled against the heavyweight 16 track 2 inch Studer A800. Watch our exclusive video feature.
You can't just accept what other people tell you is the best format, so many people have opinions and so many articles are written that it's not easy to know which is best without hearing for yourself. To help clear up the analoge v digital debate, the MPG held a very interesting comparison of four recording formats. The Pro Tools, Nuendo and Radar digital systems slugged it out with their arch enemy, the analoge Studer A800 running on the 16 track block that is legend in engineer circles.
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Digital radio still hard to hear
Broadcasters are eagerly jumping on the digital radio bandwagon. But the release of radios is being delayed, and few people can listen today.
[Via CNET News.com]
"Analysts say the technology is stuck in a classic "chicken or the egg" dilemma. Radio stations need the technology to compete with their new rivals, but they want to make sure listeners will be there before investing large amounts of money. Listeners, meanwhile, are barely aware of the technology and are unlikely to buy new high-end devices without large amounts of available content.
The high cost of HD radios--$269 for Radiosophy's desktop player, and $499 for Boston Acoustics' radio--is also likely to keep most listeners away from the medium for a few years, until production costs can be lowered, analysts say.
The Gartner research firm predicts that about 1 million people will be listening to HD Radio by the end of 2006, rising to about 10 million by 2009. The firm said that about 92,000 HD receivers would be in the market by the end of this year.
In a sobering note for broadcasters, the research group also predicts that satellite radio will have more than 26 million subscribers at the end of that same time frame."
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CBC Arts: Classical star joins Eminem, Dylan on Forbes list
For example, while blockbuster rapper Eminem's last album Encore sold 4.8 million copies since its November 2004 debut, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma's total album sales reached 176,000 in 2005. However, Ma has 16 Grammy Awards under his belt. As a result, both made it to the Forbes list.
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Presentation Zen: Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic
As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind. I believe we can use many of the concepts in Zen and Zen aesthetics to help us compare their presentation visuals as well as help us improve our own visuals. My point in comparing Jobs and Gates is not to poke fun but to learn.
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Ship blasts pirates with sonic weapon
Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, generates earsplitting noise in a directed beam
[Via The Globe and Mail - Technology News]
"American Technology, based in San Diego, compares its shrill tone to that of smoke detectors, only much louder. It can be as loud as about 150 decibels, while smoke alarms are about 80 to 90 decibels."
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After Criticism, Sony Issues Fix for Hidden Rootkits - Yahoo! News
Sony (NYSE: SNE - news) has admitted that it included a stealth rootkit on some music CDs shipped in 2005 and has issued an update to remove the hidden software one day after it was discovered. The company had drawn criticism from security experts who warned that the technology could serve as a tool for hackers.
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Knowledgeorama OPML Directory Tool
Andy Sylvester sent an
email this morning announcing that he had just launched a new weblog
using Radio and wanted to let us know about a new Radio UserLand
tool that he developed for creating OPML directories. He calls it
DirectoryTool and it allows you to:
- Create directory files using the Radio UserLand outliner.
- Generate HTML files corresponding to the OPML file directory structure.
- Automatically upload your directory to your Radio UserLand weblog.
For more information, visit his site and the announcement post here.
[Via Scott Young's Radio Weblog]
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Curry in Podcast Convention Clash
A dispute between two of the podosphere's biggest players erupts into a public feud on the eve of what's being billed as the world's first podcasters convention. By Steve Friess.
[Via Wired News]"This is the place we get to meet everybody you've heard and talked to," said podCast411 host Robert Walch of Overland Park, Kansas, who said he walked away from a six-figure income earlier this year to focus on growing his podcast consulting business. "This is going to be the Woodstock of podcasting."
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