OmniVision's No Flash in the Pan
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The specialty chip maker predicts a lean transition quarter, but it plans a rebound in 2005.
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.
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Out of the lab and into the living room; Samsung's plasma in the real world Living Room Review You know how it is - you're sitting one day in front of your trusty CRT watching Apocalypse Now when you're suddenly struck by the feeling that you really aren't getting the full-fat cinematic experience.â¦
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No new products, no new strategy announced in CES keynote.
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Better in Black? The $5000 Pioneer Kuro PlasmaLED Backlighting for New Samsung LCDsPerhaps the World&#39;s Thinnest LCD Frames, Toshiba SaysThe 50-Inch Plasma: Panasonic&#39;s TH-50PZ77Mitsubishi&#39;s UltraThin Frame LCDsBlur-Reduction Technology in New JVC LCDsSharp Claims Its New LCDs Are Flatter Three New LCD-TV Sizes From LGHow Smart are the HP MediaSmarts?Sony: No New TVs at the CEDIA ShowThe Little Giant: Vizio LCDs
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Latest Apple player offers plenty of flash, but the lack of an LCD will bother some.
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Toshiba won't launch flat-panel TVs based on SED screens this year after all.
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Sony debuted an innovative new bendable 2.5-inch display, one that is less than 0.01 inch thick -- not much thicker than a piece of paper -- and can display full-color video.
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DonÂt buy that high-definition TV yet. Competition may force the prices down further.
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In June, on a trip to Italy, I wanted a copy of a picture a stranger was taking. "What if his camera, as it was taking the picture, also broadcast the bits to every other camera in range. My camera, sitting in my napsack would detect a picture being broadcast, and would capture it. (Or my cell phone, or iPod.)" Then on August 29, a review in the NY Times of the Fujifilm Z10fd said it could beam photos to other cameras that support the IRSimple protocol. Unfortunately the camera wouldn't ship until October. Well, it's now November, the camera is shipping. Yet none of the reviews on Amazon mention its social feature. I was thinking of getting one, but then what's the point if no one else has it? According to the reviews it's a fairly ordinary digital camera otherwise. (Though it has a "blog mode" which is mentioned but not adequately explained in the video ad.) So -- do you think this this baby bootstraps? Are social cameras here now, or a thing of the future?
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Omnivision conference call notes and forcasts.
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Though Omnivision's future isn't fully in focus, this camera chip maker looks set to turn megapixels into megaprofits.
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No deal, but a vote of support for the video giant.
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The company won't say why it's delaying the launch of its hotly anticipated gadget for streaming video from Macs to televisions. By the Associated Press.
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IT&#39;S OFFICIAL. People didn&#39;t flock to buy LCD units in the second quarter which is disappointing news for manufacturers, which are now awash with the fancy thin film transistor glass.
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I cannot play a DVD on my computerâs Windows XP operating system. I see the picture, but there is no sound. What is keeping my movies silent?
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Paper thin CES on Video Up close with Samsung's size-zero 52in LCD TV prototype...â¦