The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype article claims that all you’ve ever been told sold about moving pictures is wrong. In this article digital video guru John Watkinson (author of The MPEG Handbook) examines the next generation of TV and film and reveals it shouldn’t be anything like →
Last weekend I finally turned my Raspberry Pi to media player appliance (IP TV STB) using Raspbmc. Raspberry Pi reaches critical mass as XBMC hardware so trying it out sounded a good idea. My main was to use Elisa Viihde service also with my Rasberry Pi connected to monitor (I already had set-top-box and I →
I just wrote how to Turn a Tablet into a Signal Generator. In addition to generating signals, a tablet can be used as audio signal analysis. Typically the only way to get sound into those tablets and smart phones is through built-in microphone, which can be limiting. Here are some Android software for audio signal →
Signal generators are a handy thing to have around the lab. In recent years these lab tools have not only decreased in size but also in cost and the result has been a plethora of portable versions that now exist on the market. In addition to full equipment it is nowadays possible to use a →
Advertisement with your own image, what the heck? Photoshop Live – Street Retouch Prank does that. Cool. Good idea and nice implementation. Is this the future of advertisement? In the video the people waiting for bus are immersed in the advertisement with help of image editing software and image editing artists. Victims of reactions ranging →
I own Fujifilm HS20EXR digital camera that use to take photos for this blog. One day I thought I wanted to have a wired external trigger. The ready made cables seemed to be expensive and/or hard to find. So I used the DIY approach: search for needed details from Internet and then build my own →
Over the last decade the way we find, store, and listen to music has undergone a huge change. Online media has changed many aspects of the audio industry, but some things just don’t change. The debate over audio quality still goes on. Ethernet AVB, USB Audio Class 2.0 aid audio quality article discusses on some →
Are you interested in seeing how light propagates? Filming light reflecting off objects article tells about a method for capturing “light in flight”. Making videos of light passing through and around objects has been done before, but this system is much cheaper (few hundred dollars) than those earlier systems ($300,000). Light-in-Flight Imaging page on that →
Some days ago I had to help a friend to interface several microphones to a Canon camcorder microphone input. I had interfaced earlier years ago microphones to several prosumer and professional video cameras, but I though it would be a good idea to do a Google search to check what is said on interfacing to →
News on the the Raspberry Pi camera module (5MP sensor at $25) has been around since earlier this year. Raspberry Pi camera module goes on sale article tells that THE CAMERA MODULE for the Raspberry Pi pocket computer is now available for order through RS Components and Premier Farnell/Element14. Documentation on how to set up →