Bret Swanson - Maximum Entropy » HD http://www.bretswanson.com tech, econ, Web, China, stocks, Fed, energy, IP, Moore, bandwidth, exaflood Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:31:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 “HD”Tube: YouTube moves toward 1080p http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2009/11/1080ptube/ http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2009/11/1080ptube/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:21:32 +0000 admin http://www.bretswanson.com/?p=1402 YouTube is moving toward a 1080p Hi Def video capability, just as we long-predicted.

This video may be “1080p,” but the frame-rate is slow, and the video motion is thus not very smooth. George Ou estimates the bit-rate at 3.7 Mbps, which is not enough for real full-motion HD. But we’re moving quickly in that direction.

]]> http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2009/11/1080ptube/feed/ 0 Getting Jacked Up in Three Dimensions http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2008/11/getting-jacked-up-in-three-dimensions/ http://www.bretswanson.com/index.php/2008/11/getting-jacked-up-in-three-dimensions/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:10:40 +0000 admin http://www.bretswanson.com/?p=289 I’ve written a lot about what comes after high-definition (HD) video. New concepts like Ultra-HD from Japanese company NHK and IMAX-at-Home from Hewlett-Packard could be real by the middle of next decade. But that great TV innovator the National Football League is already ahead of the game.

Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games.

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