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Blogging, Blu-ray, HD-Radio, And RSS: Podcast E11

February 21, 2008 By: J. Pisano Category: Podcasts 1 Comment →

Blogging, Blu-Ray, HD-Radio, And RSS, Podcast E11

Darren and Joseph are back on the air and kicking it hard! In this episode they talk about getting their new campaign to get 100 music educators blogging by 2009 among other great topics!

Original Air Date: 2/21/2008

Website: http://www.mustech.net

Podcasters: Dr. Joseph Pisano and Mr. Darren Morton

Episode 11’s Show:

  • Joseph Makes a public apology for missing a podcast DATE!
  • Mustech.net exceeds bandwidth and has to upgrade to 20 Gig a month!
  • How about comments -don’t be afraid to comment on a blog!
  • The campaing to get 100 Music Education Bloggers by 2009!
    Learn more about our campaign!
  • Darren upgrades to HD-Radio for his FM station
  • Blu-ray becomes the winner of the format wars
  • What are RSS feeds and OPML feeds?
  • What’s coming up in the next few podcasts? Find out.

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The End Of The High Definition Format War: Blu-ray Is The Champion

February 20, 2008 By: J. Pisano Category: Technical Chat 1 Comment →

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD

Toshiba has “called it quits” and Sony’s Blu-ray format has become the undisputed “winner” of the high definition wars.  Quite frankly, I’m glad the war has ended.

I decided that I was going to wait until Christmas season this year to decide on which format that I wanted to support/own and now I don’t have to make that decision.   As an owner of an XBOX 360, the temptation was there to buy the HD-DVD player but, looking through my “future goggles”, I thought that the format might have a problem ”catching on” with the public for various reasons.

The one sticking point that I always came back to with regard to the specificities of the formats was that Blu-ray, from the outset, could hold 20GB of more data that the HD-DVD for its dual layer type media and the theoretical limit for Blu-Ray is 200GB and HD-DVD is only 60GB.  This is a major consideration when you consider how fast we are “chewing up” data allocations with our media storage needs.   Although, I’ve never worked with authoring a Blu-Ray menu system,  my understanding is that the process is/was much harder than the HD-DVD format.  I hope that this gets easier now that all efforts can be concentrated on one format.  Especially, because it will not be long before we start to attempt to edit our own HD videos and store them on Blu-ray discs in the near future.

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