Tuesday, January 7, 2003

From the New York Times: Microsoft Moves to Stengthen Its Position in Digital Media. Microsoft has lowered the price of licensing its Windows Media technologies to 50 cents per device, less than the typical licensing fees for MPEG4 video. The consumer electronics market is more sensitive to cost than say the multi-thousand dollar per device pro photography market, so I would expect a number of announcements at CES involving small devices using Windows Media codecs. 7:32:22 AM

If you use Konica or Minolta camera to shoot VRs, you might be interested in this news item from Digital Photography Review: Konica and Minolta agree to merge. 7:20:02 AM

Tomorrow Peace River Studios will be officially announcing the PixOrb motorized spherical VR head for creating panoramic and spherical photographs. PixOrb is a fully automated tripod head that uses computer-controlled motors to operate a camera while rotating in any direction. 7:00:05 AM

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