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A Glimpse of the Soundplane Controller, Innovative Tactile Multi-Touch, in the Lab; Call to Action
Alder Soundplane prototype with blanks of reclaimed redwood and Doug Fir. Photo by Randy Jones; used by permission. On tablets, on displays, multi-touch control these days is calibrated largely as a software interface – more Starship Enterprise panel than violin. As such, it works well for production tools and exploring compositional ideas. But it falls […]
Read moreEditorial: MPEG LA Extends Royalty-Free License for H.264, Sorta – But Not Much Changes
The good news: a lot of “broadcast” Internet video is free forever on AVC and H.264. The bad news: everything else still costs money, not much else changes, and you can expect the next battle will be a protracted patent debate. Whee! Photo (CC-BY) Bill Jacobus. MPEG LA, the group that holds the patent pool […]
Peter Kirn - August 26, 2010
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Updated: MPEG LA Pool Planning to Torpedo OGG Theora, Says Jobs
RichardL notes some potentially major news this afternoon. Shortly after my post, Steve Jobs himself reportedly answered an open letter written by free software advocate Hugo Roy. Hugo’s letter contained suggestions about whether a standardized unencumbered video codec needed to accompany the video tag in order to be truly “open.” The original post, on “hugo’s […]
Peter Kirn - April 30, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
HTML5 and a Brave, Flash-Free, Open World? Uh… Not So Fast
Peter Kirn - February 1, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
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