I've been down on MPEG-4 for a while now, despite my respect for many of the folks associated with the standard. Given the adoption of Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there's increasing reason to believe, to paraphrase an old Sout

The nice thing about DV is that when it arrived, it arrived alone, at least in the prosumer/consumer space, which was too price-sensitive for DVCAM and DVCPRO. There was analog and there was DV, and that was it. Unfortunately, new products have signi

The problem with streaming video is well, um, streaming. To "stream" video, or deliver it on demand without interruption, you must compress it to low data rates that squeeze much of the quality out of the video. In contrast, all streaming video&mdash