Year: 2002

Apple today also previewed QuickTime Broadcaster, a new product for live Internet broadcasting. QuickTime Broadcaster will support both capturing and encoding of content with support for all QuickTime codecs, including MPEG-4. As with QuickTime 6, however, the software’s release has been delayed pending changes to the MPEG-4 licensing agreement. QuickTime Broadcaster will be available as a free download.

Today at QuickTime Live!, Apple previewed QuickTime 6, the next major version of its multimedia technology. Among the features of QuickTime 6 is full support for MPEG-4, a streaming media format for high quality content. While Apple noted that QuickTime 6 is complete and ready for release, it is delaying the product due to the currently proposed licensing fees covering MPEG-4. The current license agreement requires royalty payments from both those who ship codecs and from content providers who use MPEG-4 to stream video.

Apple, Ericsson and Sun Microsystems have announced a relationship to develop the Ericsson Content Delivery Solution, a new standard for delivering multimedia content to wireless devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs. The standards-based solution is comprised of Apple’s QuickTime for content creation and encoding, Sun’s software and systems to enable content distribution, and Ericsson’s existing mobile infrastructure.

Sonnet has begun shipping the Tempo RAID133, a ATA/133 RAID controller (the site still lists availability as “TBA”). The PCI card sells for US$199.95. Additionally, the company recently posted a firmware update for the Crescendo/WS, its G3 upgrade for Wall Street PowerBooks.

Bryce Camp, a 5-day intensive training course on Corel’s 3D natural landscape software, will be held May 20-24 in Sedona, Arizona. The faculty of the courses will include author Susan Kitchens, Hollywood digital artist Chris Casady, computer artist and graphics researcher Dr. Ken Musgrave, 3D artist Scott Tucker, and 3D artist and animator Clay Hagebusch. Tuition is US$955 for five days of instruction, a sunset jeep tour, a software/book giveaway, and several presentations.