STEVEN M. BLUMENFELD

At this year's NAB show, there were companies, big and small, showing off tools of the trade using compression. MPEG is clearly the standard of choice

What is multicasting? Any description of multicast must start with unicast. Unicast is what many of us know as the basis for World Wide Web communications.

If there's not a way to describe, characterize and find content, does it really exist? Those of you who have been reading my columns for a while know

Warning, caution - there are no customer accessible parts inside - removing the cover may void your warranty" exclaimed the tag on my new piece of equipment.

Why would you want to repurpose material that has already been seen? Do you really think your viewers want to see things that were shot last year? If

If you have to shoot in DV and need to deliver in many different formats, cut and edit in the native format, and then only transcode the final material.

With a downloadable file the content owner is much more vulnerable. This month, a question that has plagued/delighted me for the past two years: Which

Come one, come all. Step right up and hear about a technology that costs an arm and a leg, has an increasing variable cost for every new user, and doesn't generate any profits.

At Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories the idea of class-based queuing (CBQ) was developed to better manage the growing bandwidth needs of enterprises. This

The added benefit of using this type of ATM spoke/hub topology was that any single island could be upgraded as technology forces networking at higher

What is multicasting? Any description of multicast must start with unicast. Unicast is what many of us know as the basis for World Wide Web communications.

It is no longer enough to bring eyes and/or ears to advertisers they are demanding qualified and clearly segmented audiences. At this year's NAB, it was

When selecting a streaming partner, no fly-by-night operation will do. For the past few years I have been writing about streaming media and interactive

Over the past few months I have been giving this topic a lot of thought. We all use information every day, and without it we would have a terrible time trying to run our businesses.