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| IBM helps film makers and media companies with vast (Hi-Def) video files, to transport such assets. IBM Head Quentin Staes-Polet explains how... | | Date Created: Jun 24, 2005, 09:37 AM |
 Mr Quentin Staes-Polet looks after IBM's Global Consulting Services for anything that relates to media and games, one of the IT business's fastest growing areas, in the Asian region. He says the large, "heavy" digital files now routinely created by the media industry, can't be manipulated or searched very easily any more. IBM advises on how such vast files can be best stored and transported. Such files also have an intrinsic, monetisable value which throws up another area of complexity around digital rights management and conditional access.
In this interview, Mr Staes-Polet talks about the pervasive serving up of such assets to the wide spectrum of receiver devices in today's digital marketplace. He talks about the challenges of bringing video to screens, be that a mobile phone screen or a high-definition television screen. He puts some of the issues of digital media - such as the file sizes measured in mindboggling "exabytes" and "petabytes" - into context. "If you look at the amount of digital video created every year, there is up to 500MB created for every person, every man, woman and child, on earth," he explains.
With the arrival of faster delivery via Wi-Max and fibre, there is no limit to where the industry can go. But he explains how, in some parts of the Asian region, piracy is a major problem that needs to be solved. Yet, he also says other parts of Asia constitute a special kind of online game market with a hyper connected type of environment that, by its nature, avoids piracy. In contrast, in the Japanese, European and American market, there is a more "device"-oriented market of games on, for example, consoles. Staes-Polet says outside of Korea and China, however, it is also a very frgamented marketplace, by reference to language and character types. It is thus difficult to log and search data and use standard platforms that are not compatible with such characters.
Quicktime for Mac users here
Flash Video for Windows PC users here
Sony Playstation Portable version can be right-click downloaded here
3GP for video-capable cellphones can be right-click downloaded from here.
Microsoft Windows Media can be right click downloaded from here.
Note for OSX Safari users: Browsers such as Internet Explorer and FireFox work fine for a right click download for the PSP and 3GP files above. But if you are using Safari, do not right click, but instead, press the option key as you click on the filename and, after downloading, change the filename to end in .3gp or .mp4 respectively.
Note for PSP users: after downloading the special .mp4 PSP version above, change the video's file name to the Sony PSP naming convention that is compatible with other file names you may already have on your PSP to avoid conflicts and ensure that the video shows up in the PSP video directory. |
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