The next steps … MP3’s ain’t nothing compared to this …
So I’ve been down the MP3 and WinAMP route for years … but now I’m into digital video. And these guys are building the future! This is the most incredible vision that I have seen in a long time … it’s the ultimate Internet video/content distribution system to date, IMHO. And their web site visuals are awesome!

Go check out KGBE and Jamby!

Radio posts and browser windows …
I have started to create a target window for all of the links in my posts … and I’m going to experiment with this for a while. This creates a new browser window which I reuse for all links that a reader selects. I tend to like this operation a little better, and am going to see what I can do to make this work the best. We’ll see how it goes.

Cool DVD links …
I finally decided that I would see about playing DVDs on my Dell Laptop. Of course, I had to go and do some research about the status of DVDs, ripping, encoding, etc. I have to say that the DVD/CD drive power draw on the Dell is what makes me want to play movies off of my hard disk. I’ve got dual 18GB drives in the Dell for DV Video editing, so storage is not a problem. (Plus, I’m not going to have a permanent DVD drive on my wearable!) In looking around, I found two very cool sites:

VideoLAN is a project of students from the École Centrale Paris. They are developing some very cool Open Source tools …

InfoMatrix, or InMatrix, has a lot of information and tools for examining your DVD drive, setting Region Codes, and even new firmware that will add new functionality to your DVD drive!