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The Way We Were

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on August 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

My opinion on Digital Rights Management? I thought you’d never ask…
In last week’s class, I mentioned that I had in fact been busted for downloading illegally. Here’s what happened… I missed an episode of House, one of the shows I watch religiously. My DVR malfunctioned and it didn’t record, and I really wanted to see that [...]

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Brightcove

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It surprised me to see the Fuse Network on the list of customers on Brightcove’swebsite, because I had been to the Fuse website before and not noticed anything unusual or different about the player. And even though we’d talked about it before in class, that’s when it really connected for me that Brightcove is, to [...]

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Chihuly in the Hot Shop

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.chihuly.com/Video/inhotshop_150.html
I know I’ve seen many websites that utilize QuickTime as their streaming media of choice, but I was really having a hard time thinking of one. Luckily, I ran across this site for work, showcasing the video “Chihuly in the Hot Shop.” I think Chihuly is kind of an odd duck, but we’re here today to [...]

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Live on Letterman

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Late Show with David Letterman page of the CBS website is, aside from the small sections for newsletter and archived Top Ten lists, mostly streaming video clips. I don’t think there’s any new ground being broken here, but I did find a few peculiarities.
First of all, there are four separate sections on the homepage that you can pick [...]

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We have a winner

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

www.fuse.tv
www.hulu.com
For this week’s assignment, I was going to write about the Fuse TV website (www.fuse.tv.) Fuse is a small network, in the vein on MTV, that I needed to familiarize myself with for a job. The website really isn’t that great though. There are lots of videos and they stream well, but I still didn’t [...]

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Music Theory

Posted in COM597: Streaming Media on July 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

www.pandora.com (Music recommendation website)
I love music and I am myself a musician, but one of my pet peeves is when someone recommends music to me. “Oh, you like that group? Well, then you’ll really like this group.” My response to that, if only in my head, is “I bet I won’t.” The only thing worse than [...]

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