Busy building websites.... and stuff!
11/01/10 18:38 Filed in: Work, Media
I'm sure somebody has modifed the clocks to the point where they're giving us less hours in the day or days in the month. Since my last post I've been working flat-out on a range of things - most notably doing some online video consultancy bits and pieces for the Open University here in Milton Keynes as well as building a new website for SimplyDV. Read More...
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Supporting Product Knowledge Training at Panasonic
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been helping Panasonic, one of the world's leading consumer electronics brands and a company whose products I've been reviewing for several years, by supporting retail staff training initiatives through the delivery of the first of a series of "HD Camcorder Academies".
With sales staff at the company's expanding number of retail stores - recently rebranded "Panasonic Store" - around the UK it's imperative that the people working at the sales coalface are armed with all the right facts about the camcorders they're selling. Having achieved success with a recent "Camera Academy", the company decided to adapt the concept for its first equivalent HD camcorder workshop. And that's where I came in. Read More...
A very early morning at QVC!
Yesterday (Saturday 12th) saw me spending a few hours at the London studios of QVC UK, where I was working as a Guest Presenter on the Hi-Tech Toys & Electronics show.
I was there to talk about the JVC GZ-HD300 high definition camcorder.
After a couple of days of preparation - during which time I got to know the camcorder and shot some test sequences that could be reviewed in the broadcast - I was in front of the cameras at approximately 00.40hrs and chatting enthusiastically to staff presenter Dale Franklin.
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After a couple of days of preparation - during which time I got to know the camcorder and shot some test sequences that could be reviewed in the broadcast - I was in front of the cameras at approximately 00.40hrs and chatting enthusiastically to staff presenter Dale Franklin.
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Has YouTube changed the face of business video?
22/07/09 13:38 Filed in: Work | Production
I've been talking to quite a few people lately about how business people look upon the opportunities afforded by the rise in popularity of YouTube, and the findings (if that's what you can call them) are quite intriguing.
Back in the old days - when "shooting video" involved large 3-tube cameras recording onto portable video tape recorders the size of your average home extension - we were designing pieces of communication that ould be distributed onto strange lumps of plastic called VHS tapes. These tapes had to sent out to customers, trainees, partner organisations and operating companies before they could view them, an action that involved a thing called a VHS player. Not everyone had VHS players in the early days either. Read More...
Back in the old days - when "shooting video" involved large 3-tube cameras recording onto portable video tape recorders the size of your average home extension - we were designing pieces of communication that ould be distributed onto strange lumps of plastic called VHS tapes. These tapes had to sent out to customers, trainees, partner organisations and operating companies before they could view them, an action that involved a thing called a VHS player. Not everyone had VHS players in the early days either. Read More...
When is HD not HD? In Tesco!
01/05/09 15:06 Filed in: Ramblings
When a really good HDTV display is given an inferior analogue signal you're not seeing HD. And who's the biggest culprit when it comes to displaying high-quality HDTVs with low quality distributed analogue TV signals? Tesco, that's who.
Although my main focus is digital video of the sort that's created by camcorders, I'm naturally interested in the stuff that helps us to share and view the clips we shoot with such devices.
With the current rush to buy HD television displays - the bigger the better - it's no surprise that there are lots of opportunities for retailers to pull the wool over people's eyes when they should be making it easy for them to make informed choices.
The one thing, above all others in this respect, that I find astounding is the way retailers display their HDTV models. If you're set on buying a new HD television and you're casting your eyes over a bewildering array of screens - how are you meant to decide which is best for you if the screens aren't displaying true high definition signals?
Perhaps certain high street retailers would rather you didn't see them in their best light? You have to wonder, don't you!
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With the current rush to buy HD television displays - the bigger the better - it's no surprise that there are lots of opportunities for retailers to pull the wool over people's eyes when they should be making it easy for them to make informed choices.
The one thing, above all others in this respect, that I find astounding is the way retailers display their HDTV models. If you're set on buying a new HD television and you're casting your eyes over a bewildering array of screens - how are you meant to decide which is best for you if the screens aren't displaying true high definition signals?
Perhaps certain high street retailers would rather you didn't see them in their best light? You have to wonder, don't you!
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