SNIA Webcast

Tom Coughlin, Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy, Objective Analysis

May 15 2013 11:00 am United States – Los Angeles

There are lots of SSDs on the market today offering IOPS (I/Os Per Second) performance in the thousands to hundreds of thousands, with indications that future models will offer speeds in the million-IOPS range. Meanwhile HDDs support from tens to hundreds of IOPS, depending on spindle speed and interface. Not every application can use the extreme performance of high-end SSDs, and some may not benefit from high IOPS at all. Since performance is tied to cost, users can save money if they understand how many IOPS the system really needs. This webinar will draw from the recent study by Coughlin Associates and Objective Analysis that examined what makes an application require high IOPS and which profiled applications according to their needs.

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Lunch will be provided

Tonight!!!: ONLINE TALK WITH FILIP SKAKUN FROM THE FRESH PAINT TEAM

In this talk Filip Shakun, from the Microsoft Fresh Paint team, talk about how it is to come back to Microsoft Corp. for the 3^rd time. Filip Shakun tried different positions both in and outside Microsoft hunting for the perfect UX job. He’s highly specialized in the XAML technology and is they one behind the WinRT XAML Toolkit.

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MOVE YOUR WINDOWS PHONE APP TO WINDOWS 8
The second talk is our own Thomas Martinsen, from Bluefragments, that talks about porting apps from Windows Phone to Windows 8. The talk focuses on Portable Class Libraries and the patterns that should be used when working with code across multiple platforms. The talk faces some of the challenges as well as different degrees of portability that can be achieved using Portable Class Libraries.

Both talks is held online and requires the Lync 2010 Attendee Client. You can download the client on http://lync2010.windowsdev.dk

Lunch will be provided.

Catch up with this week’s show where in the cinema section we take a looks at Fede Alvarez’s horror re-imagining of the classic Evil Dead, Gerard Butler has to tackle the threat of terrorists and save the President of the United States in Olympus Has Fallen, an Australian shopping mall gets flooded and over run by a mutant shark in Bait and Matt Damon stars with Frances McDormand in director Gus Van Sant’s drama Promised Land.  On Blu-Ray/DVD Tom Cruise stars as Lee Child’s drifter anti-hero Jack Reacher, Israeli horror movie with a bite, Rabies, Kristin Scott Thomas stars in French thriller Love Crime (Crime D’amour) and another horror where you’ll check in but maybe not out, No Tell Motel, plus as usual, our look at the latest movie news and the UK Box office and DVD/Blu-Ray top 10′s.

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This review contains spoilers, but if you have seen the movie then see if you agree with our pronouncements but clicking the link after the jump!

Evil Dead (2013) review Webcast

RJ Bayley & Louise Boyd, from left to right.

What do you think of the webcast? Is this a brave new vision of a horror classic, or a needless reanimation of the corpse of a dead loved one? Let us know in the comments below!

You can follow RJ Bayley on Twitter: @Chunder_Thunder You can follow Louise Boyd on Twitter: @wanderingloulou Or you can follow Goats in the Machine directly for updates: @GoatsinMachine

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update:
As of 2:00 PM PDT the live stream has ended except for ‘authenticated users’.

Road Dog Media – Part road diary, part soapbox…

I think it is safe to say that I’ve done my fair share of multi-camera live switched and webcast events.  I started switching back in 1999 and webcasting as an operator in 2010, although I did live switch the official launch webcast for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission town hall meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba back in 2009, the on-demand stream of which is no longer live.

I started as a neophyte, working under and alongside seasoned pros in the field, who increasingly gave me opportunities to show my stuff while giving me just enough rope to hang myself…  There are some ligature marks but I’m still here so apparently I passed inspection.

The South Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Centre was all abuzz with folks talking about both disciplines.  Some folks obviously knew their stuff while others were looking to get into the game for a fraction of the cost of what I perceive to be a comprehensive solution.  And the manufacturers had products to appeal to them ALL!

One of the exciting products for me was a new hardware series by LiveStream, my live webcast solution of choice.

The LiveStream Studio HD500 is an interesting solution on a lot of fronts.  It has the core capabilities to do 5 source live switching for webcast and has a built in titler and playback engine.  As well, there are (limited) audio mixing capabilities.

I am looking very seriously at picking up one or more up for my highly mobile live event webcast model.  A tremendous amount of bang for the buck.

Where the solution fails is where most folks are going to try to use it – simultaneous webstreaming with output to venue screens in an IMAG (Image MAGnification) scenario.

Upon talking to the kind folks at LiveStream, there is a 6 frame delay internally from input to output.  This is to facilitate syncing non-synchronous sources, the ability to enable live keying and other such mundane tasks that the average user doesn’t want to consider.

The problem is, we can SEE 2 or more frames of delay of video from audio.

In a live webcast, the audio and video are received simultaneously and in sync.

No issue there.

In a live-to-screen environment, one of two things happens:

• The operator is using only the LiveStream HD500 box for both audio and video mixing and output to screens and house audio, in which case the speaker has to deal with a very unnatural delay hearing their own voice back.  For seasoned pros like LiveStream’s demo artist, this isn’t an issue.  For the average person, this is massively disconcerting.  Imagine your keynote speaker being completely distracted during their presentation and losing their place.

• More likely, the room audio will be handled by an A/V company supplying the room with mixed audio to speakers arranged around the room or in the ceiling.  Your video feed to the projectors is now going to be 6 frames (or 1/5th of a second) minimum delayed to the screens.  Depending on the exact signal path to the projectors or video displays, you may need to add 2 or more frames of delay to that.  For people in the first several rows, this is incredibly distracting.  As you get further and further back in the room, it becomes less of an issue because it takes time for sound to travel through the air but let me tell you, 6 – 8 frames of video latency is an eternity in live event.

I agonize over video latency in my practice.  At a recent Vancouver Community College convocation event, I had my latency down to 2 frames from my position in the balcony to the rear projection screen on stage and one of those frames was incurred converting HD-SDI to DVI for the projector.  You can see the delay if you look REALLY hard in my 720P60 recording of the event when the screen is in the shot.

I get compliments everywhere I go on my professionalism and attention to detail, especially around latency and audio considerations in general.  I very often choose to work in 720P60 for live projection instead of 1080i30 to halve the delay time, which is ALWAYS incurred in frames, not fractions of seconds.

The LiveStream solution is fantastic!  I am buying at least one if not multiples, but it must be used appropriately and frankly too many new practitioners only see what it can do for the price and not what it does in the real world.

I worked on a live recording of my friend’s dad’s band in a church environment over a year ago on Vancouver Island and the inhouse A/V guy bent my ear to get some ideas on how to minimize latency; they had a parishioner who was very upset about the lip sync issues in the sanctuary.  After spending an hour looking through every phase of the setup, I concluded they were 2 frames latent at the projectors (consumer/boardroom projectors flown behind screens).  My opinion was there was no way they were going to get any better results.

Then I asked an informed question:

“Where does the parishioner sit?  He sits in the front row, doesn’t he?”

The A/V tech and I both smiled.  We knew what the solution was.

I got an email two weeks later that the gentleman now had a “place of honour” in the back row next to the sound booth and said “whatever we had done had fixed it!”

Sometimes you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

Thanks for reading!

Join our Live, interactive Jewish Voice webcast on Anti-Semitism – what it is, why you should care, how to stop it. It’s all from a Messianic Jewish perspective.

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San Francisco (CNN)

And in the Exploratorium’s shiny new space, the experience is just as much for adults as it is for children.

On Wednesday, the doors open on the Exploratorium’s first new home in its 44 years, the $300 million renovated Pier 15 on the Embarcadero, San Francisco’s eastern stretch of waterfront. It is three times larger than the old museum, the cavernous exhibit hall at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, which was originally built for the 1915 World’s Fair. The Exploratorium was originally opened in that location in 1969 by physicist Frank Oppenheimer.

Read More… http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/tech/innovation/new-exploratorium/index.html?hpt=te_t1

In this bonus episode Louise Boyd and RJ Bayley take on the bewildering 3D remake of My Bloody Valentine, inventively titled My Bloody Valentine 3D.

This kind-of-appendix to our main 12 Months of Terror entry on My Bloody Valentine offers a comparative review of the film that sparks our wider discussion on the merits of 3D in film, the importance of stylistic synergy in a movie and just how long that actress must’ve been naked for.

From the paintings of Rothko to midgets with fake breasts, we cover the high, low and all brows in between in this 12 Months Of Terror bonus.

My Bloody Valentine 3D Webcast

RJ Bayley & Louise Boyd, from left to right.

By RJ Bayley.

What do you think of the webcast? Should Tom sell the mine? Was this a liberated reinvention or a shat on in the original’s helmet? Let us know in the comments below!

You can follow RJ Bayley on Twitter: @Chunder_Thunder
You can follow Louise Boyd on Twitter: @wanderingloulou
Or you can follow Goats in the Machine directly for updates: @GoatsinMachine