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Last week, Netflix began rolling out a new feature that allows subscribers to watch some titles in high-definition when streamed to the web via Silverlight. The update, supported on both Mac and PC platforms, allows the HD streaming to occur in the browser by way of the Netflix player. Now that…

This NFL football season, NBC will be hosting full HD (720p) live streaming video of all the Sunday Night Football games on their NBC Sports website. The video streams, powered by both Silverlight technology and IIS Smooth Streaming will use HTTP adaptive streaming technology for an amazing online…

The essential Dan Rayburn had a good blog post asking we, Adobe, and the industry overall agree on a definition for HD Video on the web. I gave a quick response in the comments that I wanted to expand into a proposed definition. Resolution and frame rateThe infamous Table 3 of the ATSC…

Now, this is a blog post! Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, has just put up a great blog post talking about their encoding workflow for their video streaming services. It’s full of awesomeness, but I wanted to excerpt the section describing their 1st gen, 2nd gen, and HD encoding…

You can now download the popular ABC TV show "Lost" from the Xbox Live Video Marketplace. Not only can you get the latest episodes as soon as they air, you can also pick up any episode from the previous three seasons, which is very useful for reviewing the prior clues! You can choose to…

The DVD Association (DVDA) has just held its election, and I've been elected as a member of the Board of Directors. I feel very honored to be invited into such August company, led by Sonic's Jim Taylor and my old colleague Bruce Nazarian. Bruce gives a great overview of where the DVDA is going…

Ancient HistoryCompression, although an obsession with me since I was 19, didn't appear to be a career option until many years after that. My years at Hampshire College were spent essentially majoring in neuropsychology, minoring in computer science, and spending my evening and weekends helping out…

Part 2 of my Halstead York interview is now up, wherein we discuss VC-1, Silverlight, frame rate unsampling, and many other things. Part 3 talking about DRM (save the most contentious for last!) will be up soon.

My old colleague Halstead York just interviewed me for his blog. Part 1, focusing on HD DVD is up now.Part 1 of Ben Waggoner/Halstead York interviewThere will be two more parts coming over the next week or two, focusing on Silverlight and DRM.

Amazon and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for independent filmmakers to distribute their movies on High Definition DVD's. These types of partnerships mean great opportunities for creative people. Not long ago it was prohibitively expensive to buy cameras and editing…