{"id":2298,"date":"2005-10-12T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2005-10-12T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T20:51:00","slug":"vidcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/10\/12\/16\/51\/vidcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the Apple Herd Effect, following Apple’s belated addition of video to the ipod<\/a> featureset, I assume there will now be a critical mass of video-enabled personal media devices. It’s been a lonely three years<\/a> or so on the bleeding edge while iPods remained mired in audio land.<\/p>\n

Anyway, now I assume that video RSS downloads, ala “podcasts”, will now gain traction. What to call them? Will they still be “podcasts”, or “vidcasts”, or “podvids”? I vote for “vidcast”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I looked at a picture of the new Apple thingy and the screen is just too damn small! Apparently Apple decided to keep its iconic front-panel wheel controller and this badly constrains the possible size of the screen. It did shrink shrink the controller slightly but still, it’s a poor choice. This is exactly the mistake Archos made several years ago when it brought out the Jukebox Multimedia<\/a> that played videos but used the same design as the preceeding Jukebox Studio\/Recorder devices. Archos then, like Apple, chose to keep its controllers on the front panel. Later models abandoned the signature design and used the available front panel space more effectively<\/a> for a larger screen.<\/p>\n

Of course, all this screen finagling would be eliminated if only safe, effective, personal digital laser projection systems would arrive that could paint an image directly and dynamically onto a user’s retina…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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