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Category: video

  • Tape’s Not Obsolete

    When it comes to audio and video recording, we’re in the midst of a increasingly fast move from tape-based recording to solid state and hard disk recording. The most obvious reason for this move is that memory cards and hard drives can be immediately accessed by a computer, where almost all editing happens. This greatly…

  • Simple, Graphic Camcorder Tips

    Most often the secrets to shooting good video footage amount to careful planning, and attention to details like lighting and sound. It doesn’t necessarily take multi-thousand-dollar gear (though if you have it and know how to use it, at least the raw quality of your audio and video will likey improve). CNET UK has a…

  • Bit-Torrenting TV Shows — Why Do It?

    No Media Kings interviewed one man responsible for releasing a significant quantity of series TV shows onto Bit Torrent to find out why. It’s an interesting read: If you try to approach file-sharing the way I do, it is a library. A library exists to provide copyrighted materials to the general public without purchasing, pending…

  • Mark Hosler: Creative Commons is “the Sierra Club of Intellectual Property, Negativland is more like Earth Firsters.”

    There’s a nice short video interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland at Minnesota Stories talking about the Creative Commons approach to copyright and what he sees as problems with it. Actually, it’s more of a Hosler monologue than an interview, but pretty concise and informative nonetheless. I didn’t know this, but apparently Negativland helped come…

  • mediageek video blog #2: space is the place

    The sleepy college towns of Champaign-Urbana, IL wake up with a vengeance in late April and early May with the arrival of spring. There are tons of events and festivals over the course of about three weeks between the defrosting and the end of the university semester. Two weekends ago was one of the newer…

  • Happy 50th Birthday to Videotape

    I missed this story last week: Friday was the 50th anniversary of the debut of modern videotape. While there were many attempts at recording television to magnetic tape or record platters going back more than 20 years prior, April 14, 1956 was the first public demonstration of a videotape recorder using a rotating drum head.…

  • mediageek video blog #1: a minor pledge drive adventure

    WEFT‘s spring pledge drive started more than 10 days ago, but April 7 was the first pledge drive show for mediageek. I went early to help with hosting the Courier, which starts at 4 PM (mediageek goes on at 5:30), and decided I might drag along a camcorder to document a little of what goes…

  • Why Cable TV Franchises Are Important

    The main component of the telecomm legislations bouncing around Congress right now is the creation of a national franchise for new entrants in the cable TV market, aimed at smoothing the onramp for the big telcos like AT&T and Verizon to begin offering TV services over their broadband lines. One of the big problems with…

  • Sanyo Xacti HD Camcorder: “don’t get suckered”

    Camcorder Info is one of the best review sites for consumer camcorders. Unlike a lot of reviews you’ll read, they’re critical of picture quality and take a look a features like manual controls. Yesterday they took on Sanyo’s new Xacti “High-Def” camcorder that records to SD memory cards, and find that while it’s a good…

  • The Uneasy Road to Hi-Def

    The question regarding hi-definition video is not if?, but when? Most people don’t have HD TV sets, but HD can be streamed and shared over the internet using all major video codecs, bandwidth permitting. So, for the serious independent or amateur videographer now is a good time to consider going HD if it’s time to…