Re: [school-discuss] More Progress! (infomercial update)

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

Last year, someone (a very nice person) offered to make a Web infomercial for us
that was really cool. Does anyone remember who that masked man was or can they
find the e-mail to show Charlie?

I don't know if it would be up to your standards, Charlie, but as I remember it
was _slick_ to me.

I'll try to overcome my decreasing memory space problems (in my head) so I can
remember where to look. Any help from bright whippersnappers with more remaining
synapses would be appreciated.

David

Quoting Charlie Cosse <ccosse@asymptopia.com>:

> David Bucknell wrote:
> > Dear Jim,
> > 
> > Beautiful -- you and Lucy are the pin ups of the month IMHO. Your story
> would
> > make a _great_ series of slides for one of those info ads we've talked
> about.
> > Anyone want to do it?
> > 
> > David
> > 
> Hi David and Jim,
> just a quick infomercial update: i've been pursuing the infomercial idea 
>   in the last couple weeks -- Monday i finally spoke with a gentleman from
> On2.com regarding their VP5 Java encoder, which loaded into my browser 
> and played high-quality video without any special plugins. Check it out
> at: http://www.on2.com/jplayer/index.php3
> But it costs $20,000 for the encoder!!! The idea of being able to view 
> an infomercial through a browser still sounds good, so there's the JMF
> (Java Media Framework) -- but downloading the Linux version (blackdown)
> is currently disabled for approx 2 wks while Sun resolves some legal 
> issue...it says  on their site: 
> (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jmf-status.html)
> 
> The Vorbis/Ogg format stuff does not seem to be ready just yet, so I'm 
> awaiting the JMF download from blackdown, and hope it fits-the-bill.
> Charlie Cosse
> 
> 


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