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Week
of April 13 1998
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April
17
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Linda
McCartney
1941-1998
Somedays
I look
I look at you with eyes that shine
Somedays I don't
I don't believe that you are mine
Paul
McCartney
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April
15
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Hewlett-Packard has a website for
Broadcast
video
solutions
(though it also seems to cover web video
serving stuff too.)
An interesting article about MPEG, titled
"Debunking
Four MPEG
Myths"
is at the HP Broadcast
video
solutions
website.
An audio technology developed at the MIT
Media Lab called Structured
Audio
will be part of the forthcoming MPEG-4
standard. While existing audio formats
represent sound as a stream of bits,
Structured Audio stores content as a
computer program in a language called SAOL
(Structured Audio Orchestra Language)
pronounced "sail". Transmitting data as a
program is supposed to be more efficient
than transmitting streams of
bits.
Windows users of Premiere 4.2 (and
other applications that currently make use
of QuickTime) should not uninstall
QuickTime 2.1.2 when installing QuickTime
3.0. Unlike the Macintosh version, the
Windows API for QuickTime 3.0 is different
to 2.1.2, so those older applications
don't work with QuickTime 3.0. This, of
course, is hardly surprising given that
the previous release of QuickTime for
Windows did not support authoring at
all!
Windows Premiere users will have to wait
for Premiere
5.0
to get access to QuickTime
authoring.
Mac/PcConnection
(and others) are selling the
Epson
Stylus
Photo
printer for $299. This is in preparation
for it's replacement; the Epson Stylus
Photo 700, which has a resolution of 1440
x 720 (instead of 720 x 720)
Information about the 700, and the new EX
(a wide carriage version of the 700) can
be found at Epson's
Australian
website.
We've been using an Epson Stylus Photo
for almost a year now. At $299 it's a
great printer.
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