Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Wrapup: Panel @ TI Worldwide Developer's Conference

Our panelists have just finished “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” video panel at Texas Instruments TIDC (the TI Worldwide Developer Conference held at Hotel Anatole in Dallas), a variation of the live webcast we did at TI’s headquarters back in December 2006.

The variation on this one was that we had a live audience and that we expanded beyond transcoding to get to an overall picture of the state of consumer video delivery on the web, on DVD and via IPTV.

The audience questions were good, and also reminded me of the continual education we have to do to separate the types of delivery, the myriad codecs and the actual content from each other, in order to provide a consistent set of “terms of art” to describe particular problems or opportunities. More on this when I have a few more moments. Right now I need to track down my bag, which US Airways forced me to gate check last night in Philly  – and which still hasn’t shown up 12 hours later.