'Motion capture' technology becomes the star of the show [USA Today : Front Page]

By using a combination of motion capture and "crowd creation" film makers can make huge groups of people appear and act in a natural manner. Question for the Screen Actors Guild/MPAA: Does the extra who gets mocapped get paid by the hour, or the number of times that one of his/her duplicates appears in the film? I mean, artists should be paid for their performances, right? Andif they are appearing in a film thousands of times, even digitally, shouldn't they be paid for that?

10:50:57 AM    

PVR For Linux [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] [Cadsoft Link]

It must be Video news day here at HQ. Roll your own Tivo. How long until the MPAA outlaws it?

9:52:33 AM    

DVDR+W drives in shock 'no upgrade' situation. Er, we announced the impossible, apparently... [The Register]

I've been holding off on buying a DVD-R(W +RW ..--..--RW whatever) until the standards emerge. I think at one point there were five competing standards. Now that it is down to two, I may have to reconsider.

Also it's good to see that the hardware manufacturers may have to deliver on an upgrade/trade in path so that early adopters are not out of luck.

I want this tech so that I can record shows off of TV, cull the commercials and add chapter headings/episode names, and have my favorite shows archived. While some shows are coming out on DVD on a season by season basis, I'd like to have them archived as they go.
Here I go:
Given that there is PVR software that can monitor the Closed Captioning feed and alert you to the shows, why not have some voice recognition software that is archiving the dialogue into transcripts, which then is fed into a database/CMS so you can always find that line/episode that is plaguing you.

9:36:04 AM