Almon B. Strowger was an undertaker in Kansas City, USA. The story goes that there was a competing undertaker locally whose wife was an operator at the local (manual) telephone exchange. Whenever a caller asked to be put through to Strowger, calls were deliberately put through to his competitor....
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PhotoshopTV (vidcast) reaches half a million people a week.
There are two High Definition DVD formats.
YouTube launched last summer and is now the 23rd most trafficked site on the Internet with 276 million page views in April.
from a Focus Enhancements press release
Campbell, Calif. June 13, 2006 Focus Enhancements Inc., a worldwide leader in video production and conversion
technology, today announced that it has worked with Canon to develop the FireStore FS-C series of portable Direct To Edit
(DTE) disk recorders for Canons...
from an NVIDIA press release
COMPUTEX, TAIWANJUNE 8, 2006NVIDIA Corporation today unveiled PureVideo HD technology, which delivers outstanding HD DVD and Blu-ray movie playback on PCs. PureVideo HD combines hardware acceleration from an NVIDIA graphics processing unit, high definition movie player integration and HDCP feature support to make it...
from a Panasonic press release
Osaka, Japan-- As a successor to the SDR-S100, Panasonic is introducing the SDR-S150 SD camcorder. Following in the footsteps of the popular S100, the S150 is compact, lightweight and features high-quality 3CCD recording and MPEG2 images. The S150 improves on its predecessor by accepting...
from a Macrosystem press release
MacroSystem, Inc., the inventor of standalone nonlinear video editors, released a new conversion box that provides live,
full-resolution display of HDV material. With this technology, individuals may now efficiently archive, duplicate, and view
HDV footage without compromising the resolution through compression and lengthy conversion...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 March 11, 1971) was an American inventor who was the first to demonstrate and patent a working electronic television system. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
Videomaker has great respect for this noble man who once said, "I know that God exists. I know that I...
