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What’s So Social About TV Anyway – An Interview with Marie-José Montpetit

May 26, 2010 By Kfir Pravda 3 Comments

Last week I had the chance to conduct a special interview with Marie Jose Montpetit, an invited scientist in MIT Labs at the department of electrical engineering, about a relatively new field that called “Social TV”.

I was always intrigued by the way that technology enables us to watch TV content whenever and wherever we want, but we still use it in order to reconnect around TV shows. In this interview we are trying to figure out:

Is TV dead? What are the new ways of TV consumption?
Can the current business models support the TV experience of tomorrow? And what’s so social about TV anyway?

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Apple, Adobe, HTML 5, Flash and Standards

February 24, 2010 By Kfir Pravda 4 Comments

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HTML 5 and  its effect on the industry will be discussed at IMTC virtual conference “2025″. For more details check this link.

Apple doesn’t like Flash. We know that already. Steve Jobs recently called Adobe lazy, and we all know that iPhone and iPad doesn’t support Flash. But the story is a bit more complex than that.

Apple’s opposition to Adobe is linked to HTML 5 – an open standard that would enable developers to use open formats to deliver rich media experiences. As such, this format is a threat on Adobe. And as Apple Insider analyzed in a great post about Flash vs. Apple: [Read more...]

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Virtual Conference – A Lot of Questions, Not a lot of answers

July 15, 2009 By Kfir Pravda Leave a Comment

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How can you create an engaging, interactive, virtual conference, that will keep people interested, even though they are hundreds of miles away? This is the challenge that we at IMTC is facing this year, while planning its annual event.

IMTC’s Annual event is a meeting point of industry experts in the fields of video communication and interoperability. This year we decided to do a full day conference virtually, using available technologies. We are doing it because of three reasons:
1. This is the conference of the future: Though nothing can replace a handshake, virtual conferences are appealing from economic and efficiency perspective

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Is HD voice Really Here?

May 26, 2009 By Kfir Pravda Leave a Comment

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Written By Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director, Product Management – Americas at RADVISION

To follow up on my previous post, I would like to continue talking about HD Voice. However, now I’m armed and dangerous – with the knowledge, that is. HD Communications Summit which took place on Thursday, May 21st, in New York City, brought together an outstanding line up of speakers with an amazing depth of knowledge on the subject. The event was organized by Jeff Pulver and Dan Berninger – both can be regarded as VoIP pioneers and experts on the subject. [Read more...]

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Can you hear me? HD Voice and Its Implications

May 20, 2009 By Kfir Pravda 3 Comments

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Written By Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director, Product Management – Americas at RADVISION

Who heard of High Definition Video? Oh yes, thank you, so silly of me, of course everybody did – walk into any electronics store, and admire – clear, bright, juicy picture, hundreds of HDTVs of all sizes smiling at you, all at the same time. We like it and want to use it daily..
But what about audio? We had High Definition audio (remember what Hi-Fi stands for?) way back – in the times when you needed a few close friends giving you a hand with 25” TV being brought in the house, High Definition sound was abundantly available, so we did experience and we do know what good sound quality is.

So let’s connect the dots. This blog is about Internet Communications, also widely known as VoIP. On cell phones, we are used to crappy voice quality and dropped calls – and we don’t even get irritated after so many years of training. Regular telephony, delivered over analog or PSTN, is almost an apogee of goodness – at least it was until few years ago. Yes, yes, nowadays VoIP is reliably deployable and we can enjoy the same voice quality as in PSTN.
But is it time for the new experience? Enters HD Communications Summit.


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