World Tech Update, CES Special
This week’s World Tech Update comes to you from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where -
- Samsung unveils new TVs, a 3D home entertainment system, e-readers and an app store.
- Microsoft announces Project Natal availability.
- Intel officially releases its next generation chips.
- Mobile TV hopes to catch on in the US.
- Lenovo shows off a laptop that splits in two.
- iPhone controlled helicopter mixes the physical and virtual worlds.
A Real Tsunami Warning
With ATT’s Ralph de la Vega making the stunning announcement last week that 3% of its smart phone users accounted for 40% of its network capacity while pointing a finger at video makes a very compelling story for video optimization. The iPhone has enabled and enamored so many users to access video that adoption will only grow and grow. His announcement is equivalent to a seismograph shaking its little needle off the paper.
The long awaited video tsunami is pulling the water away from the beach now. And it’s all going to come crashing back. De la Vega hinted of usage-based charging or ‘other’ incentives to motivate users to throttle back. There will be a backlash on ATT. Subscribers will get sensitive about dropped calls, QoS, and monitor their bills closely. This will lead to a rash of customer service calls for credits, justifications, explanations. Many will jump ship to Verizon. Handset makers and content providers are going to complain that uptake is slowed, etc. (That’s another story all together regarding ‘over-the-top’ plays).
But the savvy operator will take note and gird up for this onslaught before it reaches them. As iPhone and Android devices take off worldwide, the operators that remember their Boy Scout motto, ‘Be Prepared’, are going to protect themselves with bandwidth optimization facilities such as Dilithium’s DVO. DVO provides the operator the ability to control, throttle, and reduce the impact that video puts on the network. This is just the beginning.
Read More Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/09/technology/AP-US-TEC-ATT-Data-Usage.html?_r=1&hpw
Video Producer/Director makes Top 10 Hot Jobs List
The Video Space Blog doesn’t always have to focus (pun intended) on video facts, figures or technology geekdom. But today, I tripped across a surprising assessment of the US job market – it’s in fact-n-figure form, but not what you‘d expect.
Out of 750 jobs reviewed, The Daily Beast (www.thedailybeast.com) has decided that Video Producer and Director is the #3 Top Job in America for job and wage growth! They based it on analysis of 3 years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics so it must be infallible. They’re talking PAID jobs over 45k USD, not your fav homeboy with a Flip camera, but PAID professional work. They go on to say that the demand is driven by our thirst for on-line video.
Given that tidbit, Video Value Added Services should have no problem finding good, professionally produced content to drive their apps. Hmmm, I thought outside the news and sports categories most professional online video content was repurposed broadcast material. But after some thought, there is an ton of advertisement videos made for the web. Ok, service providers, give me a ‘Cool Advert’ channel with Video Push.
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Live Video Streaming
Steve Garfield talks about live video streaming from his mobile phone.
iPhone video
As part of a new Pan European Project called EuroCreator.com which encourages teenagers and children of all ages to upload media content on to a safe video sharing platform. 15 Year old Ben from a local Community Digital Media Centre in Dublin Ireland, has achieved an amazing feat in one morning.
The new iPhone 3GS was launched in Ireland today and as a result Ben decided to put all the hype to the test. After getting his hands on one of the first units to be sold this morning, Ben decided to use the new features of the iphone which allows you to record live video, and turned the phone on himself.
Within 40 mins he had created a news report about the hype around the new launch of the iphone. The report was entirely filmed by himself and on the actual iPhone while on location at his local mobile phone store. Once the report was finished Ben emailed the report on his phone back to his Communty Digital Media Centre who uploaded it onto eurocreator on his behalf which broadcasted his piece to students all across Europe.
Joining Technologies to Connect Citizen Journalists
Steve Garfield, citizen journalist, uses Mobile Video to upload his on the street news footage to a broadcast TV station. See more of Garfield’s ideas on YouTube.