ZA Tech Show: Episode 6
We have a full-house this week on ZA Tech Show with Simon Dingle, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Ben Kelly discussing:
- ISO ratifying OOXML as a standard
- Google Gears allowing you to work on Google Docs offline
- Douglas Merrill resigning as CIO of Google and going to EMI
- Telkom Media’s troubles
- Broadcast regulation in SA
- SA Blog Awards
- Firefox 3 beta 5
- The PWN to OWN awards
- Wordpress 2.5 and web app security
- The promises of Intel Atom and mobile computing
- SA Cricket entering the blogosphere
It’s all yours for Mahala.
Komatipoort, thats funny
Questions for the Multichoice Man in the coming show:
1. How easy will it be for Multichoice to get HD content? For example, series they currently show, that also show in HD around the world, do you get it “free” when you buy the program for syndication in South Africa? So you could easily have a HD channel, like you have a load-shed channel, that reruns the shows in HD later?
2. What bitrates are the HD channels going to be run at? We’re using h264 compression here, like they do in eu, so are we planning to run it at that kind of bitrate? Comcast in USA has recently lowered the bitrate on their (mpeg2) channels to fit more on, and it looks terrible, hopefully Multichoice won’t have to resort to that.
3. If the media reports are right, Multichoice are going for a customized Pace TDS850 PVR, I cant find much technical info on this - is it comparable to other 1st world decoders, ie. 1080p, etc? If so, are there any plans of Multichoice doing any 1080p content at any point, after 720p has been tried and tested?
4. Expected price of the aforementioned HDTV PVR?
5. Who do I email to get into some kind of beta programme?
Some design suggestions. 2c. Use it, don’t use it.
1. Take the words Tag Cloud out from the header. I reckon we know what it is? Otherwise looks pretty kief.
2. Link the ZA Tech main logo back to home. It’s something we’ve come to expect. Geeeeve it to us.
About SA Cricket. Is this the Standard Bank Social Media Press Release? It was an interesting project - a huge step in the right direction of involving the media and public in an “iterative” press release. Unfortunately it erred on the side of just pulling in too many feed (imho) - but an exciting sign of things to come.