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Info on the loose
Can you imagine life without
the Internet? This month's
focus is "living online" and
Development Research Centre. The session was called
Controlling Internet Content Worldwide: Policing, public
policy or creeping censorship? The invitation read "Not
long ago, the Internet was thought o f as en open, DIGM1 LIVING

the Internet is how most of self-policing commons — one that held special meaning V a l u r n o n 9 : N u m b e r '11

us fulfill that. The Internet is for developing countries b y promising to unleash a EDITORIAL
Editer•in•ChleT D a v i d Tanaka
shaping us as much as we knowledge revolution. Today, along with the exploding tonaka.daridGgmail.corn
shape it, just as radio and TV use of the Internet throughout the world, there is also
Managing Editor E r i n Bell
shaped w a s shaped b y increasing pressure as governments seek to reinstate erin1ppublishinp,ca

earlier generations. control over Internet content." Contributing Editors Sean Carruthers
Gard Goble
More than a half century Can anyone or any government control Internet content?
Mike Palermo
ago, a Canadian political economist named Harold Innis Like paper in relation to clay tablets, the Internet sets Lee Rickwood
Marc Saltzman
wrote what were to become two of the most influential loose information that gatekeepers of traditional media Chad Sapieha
Gene Wilburn
books on the-role of communications media in shaping may have wanted t o control — and this has huge
culture. In Empire and Communications (1950) and The implications both good and bad. The unnerving aspect of
Bias of Communication (1951) Innis suggested that the information on the loose is that it is unpredictable in its Advertising Sales
Sales Manager R a l p h Ventriglia
nature of its communications technology influenced the consequences — it can enrich as well as endanger ralph@ppublishingca

outlooks and possibilities of a civilization. The often-used individuals and societies as a whole. And that describes national Account Executive M a r i a Favot
maria@ppuolishingoa
example i s the rise o f paper-based communication, the Internet today — inspiration and dread, humanism Ad Sales
which is very portable compared to something like a clay and misanthropy, charity and greed walking arm in arm. ONTARIO/TORONTO K a r i m Rizk
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tablet and thus can spread information, and ideas more In the western world, governments have steered clear of MONTREAL B r i a n Hillcoat
easily and quickly. Paper and its sidekick, the printing wholesale censorship o r draconian legislation t o limit boan9ppublishingca
WESTERN CANADA V i v i a n Jin
press, permitted the rise o f European empires, in a what goes online, [at least to our knowledge), but a vivianelppublishing.ca
manner of speaking. similar tension h a s l o n g existed online between
Business Group
Innis influenced another great Canadian media theorist, individual a n d commercial, especially corporate
President/Publisher S c o t t Piccolo
Marshall McCluhan. McCluhan was interested in mass commercial interests. We saw it in music, where Online scon@ppuolishing.ca
Art Director • Steven Stoner
communication, particularly popular media and his music sharing of MP3 files was a serious setback for the
steves@ppuolishing.ca
famous aphorism 'the medium i s the message" i s mainstream m u s i c i n d u s t r y a n d f o r c e d i t t o Production Coordinator C h r i s t i e Swail
cnrimiegppublisiong.co
shorthand analysis that TV itself changed culture, never fundamentally alter its business model. Meanwhile, the
Production Assistant L i z Van Der Wee
mind what was on the tube. In short, instantaneous indie scene flourished. This issue, Lee Rickwood's article lizeppublisning.ca
Distribution Manager M a r k Backer
electronic communications created a global village. on online video sharing traces a similar tension where
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Some analysts have suggested that the daily TV cast of personal and commercial video s fight for audience. The Office Administrator M a l e n i e Raiarant
maleme@ppublishingo
the horrific destruction in Vietnam and body bags of US huge popularity o f YouTube and similar hosting sites
IT Manager S t e v e Cuinney
soldiers arriving home was a big factor in turning public points to a pent-up demand for something beyond the steveq2ppublishing.ca

opinion in the US against the war in the 19705. Today,
oppressive and friendly administrations alike t r y t o
manage media more effectively, including the Internet.
Coincidentally, as I was writing this editorial an invitation
popped up in my email. It was to a brown bag lunch
seminar i n Ottawa, sponsored b y the International
three formulas used. in network TV programming, yet
networks were relatively quick to see the numbers and
realize there was an opportunity for them too.
Enjoy the issue,
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Online video s h a r i n g
From flea market to global marketplace
Online video sites are like a digital media flea market. Folks come to show,
share and swap their wares, unencumbered by over-riding commercial
concerns. That can be good or bad, frustrating or satisfying— but it's all part
of an exciting sense of discovery and shared experience.
The online video phenomenon began [much as the Web in general and P2P targeted with efficiency,' says Jack Flanagan, well-known Internet guru and
in particular) by promising empowerment to individual content creators or founder of a online audience measurement firm.
documentarians, b e t h e y neophyte, amateur, independent o r even
professional.The ability t o share one's own video content [ o r musical
favourites o r personal photo albums or citizen journalist submissions)
online opens up an almost unimaginably wide landscape o f styles,
concepts, interests and audiences. Many viewers say i t s precisely the
marginality of such content that gives video sharing its unique viewability,
and ever-increasing popularity.
Among websites ranked by comScore Media Metrix, for example, YouTube
scored 19.1 million unique visitors in August (up 19 per cent over the
previous month). That makes it the 32nd most-visited Web property. Web
surfers now download 100 million videos a day on YouTube — none more
than 10 minutes long.
Host sites — like Digg, YouTube, MySpace, OhMyNews, Google, Rocketboom,
LeapFrog and others — are technology enablers, providing storage space
and bandwidth. It's the creators themselves that fuel the fire, creating
entirely new markets where the major media companies apparently thought
none existed.
Monetizing and commercializing online video
But now, the big boys are stepping in, and the local flea market is beginning
to look like a global shopping mall.
"Online video is emerging from its infancy and entering the mainstream.
Many publishers and advertisers are responding to this trend, which means
advertising dollars will continue to migrate online where consumers can be
Flickr, the original Canadian photo-sharing site, was snapped up by an
international media conglomerate. MySpace has a deal with Fox TV. MSN has
a video deal with Soapbox. User-generated content will still be available, but
popular TV shows are featured and sold online more and more.
Like on YouTube. It signed a deal with giant Warner Music [but it is in legal
limbo with others), and will offer as many established stars and branded
artists as it does user-originated material.
As yet unsettled issues with user-generated content are questions o f
ownership, rights and compensation. Legal eagles are still exploring the
ramifications of hosted material that is deemed libelous or defamatory, even
as they jostle over who controls the material in the first place, and who may
benefit from its exhibition or distribution.
Video submissions to MSNBC, for example, are covered by an agreement
that grants t h e company " a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive,
unrestricted, worldwide license to: use, copy, sublicense, adapt, transmit,
publicly perform or display' any contributions it gets! Interestingly, those
rather comprehensive rights are also granted to third party sub licensees.

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A less commercial approach is followed by online video sites such as Digg,
which operates under the Creative Commons Public Domain License,
stipulating that video submissions are "dedicated" to the public domain.
In the case o f YouTube, music giant Warner has licensed its songs to
YouTube, so that anyone who uploads their own version of a popular tune are
allowed to do so — usually. YouTube will use tracking technology t o tag
people uploading copy-protected songs, and it will pass the information on
to its corporate decision-makers to see if the video gets "approved." Some
might argue that fair use considerations in most copyright laws already
allow such usage.
Online video and personal broadcasting
While protection from legal hassles is one significant consideration when
sharing video, personal broadcasters are looking to supplement their own
income, not that of a million-selling artist.
One approach is the revenue sharing model unveiled by Google or Blinkz.
People who post videos may set their own price points, or series of prices,
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by using new digital media tools to broadcast video, photo and audio content The directory lists a range o f content from serious corporate video

directly from their desktop. Software from PiXPO and others, enables the
distribution o f seemingly unlimited amounts o f personal media from a
user's own personal broadcast site: their PC.
Users face no limits to the size or amount of digital media content they
broadcast, and avoid the entire upload process. Pixpo says it will soon
incorporate tools to let users monetize their own content.
The idea o f personal broadcasting, as opposed to posting videos on a
hosted site, is also behind Stickam, a new Web application that allows
anyone to broadcast live streaming video over the Internet, in addition to
uploading videos, pictures and music an a personal blog or website.
Videos can be viewed by virtually anyone (there's no software to install)
and will play on Linux, Windows and Mac systems.
messages to humorous user-generated content. You can also search for
specific videocasts or topics of interest by content, keyword, tags and so on.
Its like a department store 'You Are Here" map, but at your favourite
flea market.
By Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood operates WordOnA Wire, an independent company providing editorial,
media production and consulting services to individuals and companies across North
America. He can be reached at videodaze@goodmedia.com.
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Toronto's BubbleShare, with an enhanced photo and voice sharing service, Popular MySpace vixen is really a professionally produced viral market,.

lets users view content instantly on the desktop without opening their campaign.
browser or email application. BubbleShare is a no-registration-required, Outed recently by Web surfers who thought her persona, her words, and
voice caption-enabled service for sharing stories over the Internet. Users especially her video clips, looked a little too good to be true, "Bree" is
can upload photos individually or in batches, record 3 0 -second audio shilling for a creative ad agency, the powerful Creative Artists group in
captions if desired, and then email albums to friends and family by entering Hollywood. Two established filmmakers are making her vlog posts, and
one or more email addresses. The basic service is free, with a premium they say they will continue to do so.
service due to launch later in 2006. No word on whether video-sharing Whether the site will continue to draw some 2.5 million visitors, now the
capabilities will be included in a future release. cat has been let out of the bag, remains to be seen. Much of the interest in
From its Lethbridge, Alberta offices, comes word of Spymac Leapfrog, a user-generated content comes from the fact it could be us. It's P2P (people
platform-specific tool for video chat, as well as posting and finding content to people), not B2C (business to consumer).
for the newly enhanced iPods. Interestingly, Leapfrog-enabled sites are Has the relationship between YouTube and its visitors (or between any
automatically regionalized, depending on location and language, as a way to video sharing service and its community of interest) been permanently
re-contextualize the content for people around the world. Spy mac Leapfrog scarred as a result of blatant manipulation and misrepresentation?
will be available later this year. So far, "Bree" isn't talking.
Finding all this content, and sorting through all the video clips out there, is
another key aspect o f online video sharing, and new tools and being Some Suggested Links and Online Resources:
released to sift through it all. www.blinkx.com
ClipBlast has introduced video search technology and what it calls the first www.bubbleshare.com
online video search toolbar, which allows users to search for video across www.clipblast.com
the Web - a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and www.funlittlemovies.com
MSN do not provide. ClipBlast says it's been indexing millions o f clips www.google.ca
already, categorizing video files, Web pages and feeds so it can serve up vnvw.myspace.com
content in real-time, on demand. www.ohmynews.com
ClipBlast also offers back-end capabilities that organize and monetize video wwwpixpo.com
libraries, providing content owners a n d advertisers w i t h revenue www.singingfish.com
opportunities drawn from targeted video-viewing audiences. www.stickam.com
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individuals or businesses find the latest video feeds from a single location. www.youtube.com

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Cold weather shooting does impose a couple of extra challenges that you
need to think about, however. First, in the cold, battery life sucks. Last winter
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enough to kill the battery. Admittedly it was a very cold February aay, but I
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the charger at home. No photos for me. The quick lessons from that are: keep
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If you solve the battery problem and manage to stay outdoors long enough.
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Moisture inside electronics is generally not a good thing and can lead to
problems like corrosion. The simple solution, that even some camera
manufacturers recommend, is to seal the camera inside a zip lock bag and
leave it there until it warms up to room temperature.
A bit of moisture landing on the outer surfaces of a camera - for
example, from snow or rain - is generally nothing to get concerned
about, but there is a limit to how much wetness a camera will
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moisture out. One kind of Canadian winter moisture that is all-
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off your camera if it has a wet encounter.
One of the general hazards of winter living is ice on walkways. If
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exposure with an exposure compensation setting. This is often
called an EV setting, and the adjustments might run from -3 to +3.
If your scenes are too dark, you'll want to dial in a + setting, which
increases the exposure.
Some cameras also have and exposure lock feature. This allows
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Bkigging has become one of the most popular uses of the Internet today. electronic distribution of this kind of media will inevitably reduce
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family, and the public at large is quite an appealing proposition for the well be expected from major online outlets.
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far better at conveying a message. As podcasts become increasingly easier 16-year-old girl complaining about too much homework."
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video blogs become the norm. around it (like blogging has). Taking a look around the web, it seems m_re
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interchangeably," says Amber MacArthur, City-TV's New Media Specialist While the phenomenal success of YouTube— whose most viewed clips nd,k
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highlighted is that a podcast/vidcast takes on the format [of a] radio or there is an interest for this type o f content, the bottom line is that r.
video show. An audio/video blog tends to be more personal — an individual's always more relatable and engaging to see or hear someone. palm,
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production process. Operating systems now include the necessary
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professionally produced. In fact, it's quite the opposite, partly because the
technology is easier to use and more accessible. "As the common platforms
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individuals will want to shoot homemade clips from their cellphones or
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be regularly hooking up their computers to their TVs or monitors to [watch) •
the wealth of content that is available online."
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becoming exceedingly common a s well. "Inexpensive bandwidth via
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out over other social networking sites, according to Adrienne Lloyd, bassist
for Toronto band Hunter Valentine (myspace.com/huntervalentine). "We
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our music. It seems to be a great way to promote yourself with people who
are actively listening to bands through MySpace sites," she says. "MySpace
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as well.
For music fans, MySpace is a unique opportunity to interact with their
favourite bands on a far more grass-roots and personal level than through
MySpace for event coordination
the passive approach of an official website or fan club. It's not uncommon
Bands aren't the only ones taking advantage of the uniquely grassroo,
for band members to interact directly with users by leaving posts and
networking approach that MySpace offers. When MoonRox jeweil, .
comments, which represents a major shift in how bands and other indie
designer Monique Chan was given the task of putting together a web Fx•
organizations can reach people.
and press release for the Kit 'n Kaboodle craft sale in Toronto on a t g •
"(MySpace) gives the illusion that you can befriends' with your favourite
budget and deadline, she created a MySpace page t o be used as
bands... it tends to emotionally attach folks to their bands, which in turn
coordination point for the event :
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(myspace.com/kitnkaboodleshowandsale).
friends," says Mavis Harris, publicist for Maple Music Recordings.
"We wanted something that was easily changeable and at the same 1,
"From a marketing point of view, it's a great research tool. You get a good
easily accessible to as many people as possible. Many of our exhibl•
feel for the people the band attracts, you can see which other musicians are
were already MySpace users, so we thought i t would b e a gr
digging t h e t u n e s ( a n d t h a t helps w h e n i t comes t o planning
networking tool. In the last week before the show we had about 1.-
openers/closers for tours], and you can also keep current fans interested
people view our page, which was fantastic," she says.
by posting things like unreleased tracks. It really is a great touchstone for
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keeping 'tabs' on fans."
easy way to network. And for someone who has no idea how to design a
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traditional website, it was fairly easy to put together our page and make
their music, and for fans to listen.
changes with the addition of each new vendor."
"Being an indie musician costs at least some money — for instruments,
Were there any frustrations? "Not too many," says Chan, "other than the
rehearsal space, and transportation — and provides very little income,
fact that the Kit 'n Kaboodle Show and Sale seems to get a few messages
says Banwatt.
asking the Show out on a date. We need to think of a good way for the
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Show to turn them down!"
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and business travellers might be inclined to visit, the "where i s it?"
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divulge credit card information as it typically goes on your room account.
Unless you have access to executive class lounges, connecting at the
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Terminal 1 in Toronto, and discovered the WiFi service there provided by
Concourse Communications. After giving them permission to lighten my
credit card account by the going daily rate, I was online. But a cheery email
confirmation that I'd not have to register again if I wanted to use the service
in the future leads me to the uncomfortable suspicion that my credit card
number is forever in its clutches. My experience at Calgary Airport, paying
for hotspot usage on my cell phone account, was much more agreeable.
For the past year, VIA Rail has been implementing an on-train WiFi service
throughout the Montreal-Windsor corridor as well as in the 22 stations on
the line. The service began i n business-oriented VIA1 coaches arrd
Panorama Lounges, but will include coach class too when fully rolled out.
Cost: 58.95 per day (per minute and per month rates also offered), and yet
another account to set up.
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in Brandon, Manitoba. At least you could in 2005. That year, my wife and I
took a road trip from Alberta, where we now live, to Ontario, where we used
to live. Our camper van, which has doubled as a mobile technology lab for
many years, was once again put into service. The mission: to see how WO
connected we could be beyond the metropolis.
This was, in short, an abysmal experience, but with a few bright spots. The
Meadowlark, and another campground west of Thunder Bay, Ont. were the
surprises. The logins were arcane and the signal weak unless you were in
the office where the router was. But the potential as a tourism booster
seemed good — imagine logging onto a local community's web site after
pulling into a campground and being able to plan the next day's activities
around the latest event schedules or discover all the things in the area
worth a visit that the tourism brochures fail to mention.
The reason why it was largely abysmal gets back to one of the problems
already stated — finding WiFi locations in strange places. I had downloaded
a list of WiFi locations from a web site before leaving on the trip, but it was
a pain trying to find specific street addresses of often-small storefronts.
After wandering around an industrial park in Winnipeg looking for a
Mailboxes Etc. location, we decided that the vacation was beginning to feel
too much like work and abandoned the project. So finding the WiFi
campground near Thunder Bay was a lucky coincidence because we were
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environment in a digital age. In this series we will explore Linux applications
for transferring images from a digital camera, editing digital images for • Linux i s cheap, as i n free,
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applications are also free. This
archival CDs and DVDs, watching DVD movies, and browsing the web, as
can make Linux very attractive
well a s m o r e traditional applications s u c h a s w o r d processing,
to someone living on a student
spreadsheets, simple databases, and Powerpoint-like presentations.
budget or, like myself, living on
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a retirement income.
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to a Windows or Mac environment. I'll highlight several of these and provide
• Linux is cool. When you use
tips and occasional tutorials on getting the most out of them.
Linux, you're participating in
To provide a convenient way for new users to ask questions and seek help,
one o f the most wholesome,
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interesting countercultures in
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the world, where people donate
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button to fix them up. Verifying and repairing your disk
permissions should take no more than a few minutes.
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clicking on the "Verify Disk".button on the right-hand
side, but this is probably only necessary i f you're
having serious ongoing problems.
If you're not a huge fan of delving into system utilities
and want one program to help you manage your basic
maintenance tasks, your system preferences and
even help you tweak your user interface, you'll want to
check out Onyx, which is available free from Titanium
Software (www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html).
The program is now available as a Universal Binary, so
it will work on both Intel and Power PC-based Macs.
The first thing that happens when you fire up OnyX is
that it will ask you for your system password; while it's
generally bad practice to type your system password
in f o r any program that asks, OnyX u s e s y o u r
password so it can have proper access to your system
in order to perform maintenance. As soon as you enter
your password, you have access t o a number o f
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your default image format is for saving screenshots,
how your Dock, Dashboard and Finder work, and other
things), Maintenance (including the verify and repair
permissions tasks listed above), Cleaning (which
helps you empty out the various file and browser
caches found on your system), and more.
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hard disk space but you have no
clue where all of the space is
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a program that's saved my
bacon o n more than o n e
occasion. When you run the
program, it asks you which hard
drive you'd like to check, and
then it scans that hard drive to
see what's there.
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block with block size scaled up
or down to reflect its size. When
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the file is, where it's located, and
how much space it's taking up.
You can even send the files
directly to the trash by right-
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simplistic to be of any real use,
but there have been a number of
times I've wondered why I'm
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space, and then realized with a
quick glance there was a
gigantic 4GB render file sitting
on my drive eating up valuable
space. Searching for those
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anywhere near as efficient. .
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late. While you'll definitely want
to set up a regular schedule for
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 The paper tray. which holds up to 250 sheets is at the bottom of the printer
and the output tray is at the top. One aspect of the HP unit that surprised
me was paper selection. With monochrome lasers it's been my experience
that they are not too fussy about the kind of paper you feed them. However,
the HP unit is more like an inkjet and seems to adjust the print process to
take into account the kind of paper being used. This is a good thing, but it
also means you have to be somewhat careful to set the paper parameters
correctly. I had inadvertently left the paper selection to -plain paper when
I was using some HP glossy brochure paper, and the output was so bad I
initially thought the printer was defective. There were bare spots in the
prints where the toner had obviously not been properly fused, and streaks
and globs of toner smeared across parts of the paper. When I discovered
my mistake and set the paper type correctly, the problems vanished, and
the printouts were blemish-free.
Overall, the colour quality is very good, and photo printing acceptable. For
spot colours — a logo on letterhead or graphics in a report — the output
looks very impressive, but photos print a bit dark — something you could
correct in image editing software.
Although the print quality is a bit below the Lexmark, especially for photos,
the HP unit seems t o be an overall friendlier device — easier to set up,
lighter if you need to move it around and with styling that's a refreshing
departure from office beige.
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good colour output, even with photos
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Lexmark Canada has set the price of the CSOOn at an SRP of $399, and I've
seen it online for $350, making it quite a bargain. The Lexmark unit gives
you 1200 x 600 dpi output, monochrome print speed of 30 pages per
minute (eight ppm for colour), built-in Ethernet and the option to use
high-capacity toner cartridges rated at 3,000 pages (or 5,000 pages for
black). The Lexmark has a 300 MHz processor and 64MB of memory. As
was noted in the Apples and Oranges section earlier in this article, this
multi-pass printer has excellent black-only print speeds and full colour
speed is comparable to the HP (which one would expect as they are both
rated at 8 ppm for full colour).
The CSOOn has many good points. The photo print quality was closer to the
reference photo inkjet prints than the HP's performance, and the printer
menu offers more options to tune the colour output. Although it's still not
good enough to compete with a comparably priced photo inkjet for fine art
printmaking, its colour is very pleasing and photos, even on office bond,
look very good. I ran into some toner adhesion problems with the Lexmark
—on samples of generic inkjet (yes, inkjet — silly me) card stock, the
printouts had bare spots in the printout, and the toner would flake off when
rubbed. The lesson to be taken — when you go to the store to buy paper, be
mindful of the designation for laser or inkjet. It can make a difference.
Like the HP, the four colour toner cartridges are stacked on top of each
other, and are easily accessible when the front panel is opened. The fuser
array drops into a slot amidships. While the HP and Lexmark unit cover
nearly the same footprint, the Lexmark looks a lot bulkier because of its
boxy shape.
The C500n is more suitable as a small office workgroup printer than it is as
a home printer. It's networkable, and it's a lot heavier than the HP.1600 (30
kg vs. 16 kg for the HP). It also has a constant fan noise even when at rest
—until the unit goes into sleep mode. It's not very loud, comparable to the
fan noise from a desktop PC, and would likely just disappear amid the other
office equipment noises in a typical workspace. But nonetheless it would
be noticeable in a relatively quiet home office, especially when compared
to the HP, which is mostly dead silent in standby mode. When printing, the
CSOOn also sounds like its a bit busier.
However, if you are willing to put up with the slight noise, and have the
space and a sturdy table, the C500n would be a useful addition to a home
office for very fast black document printing and good overall colour quality.
- By David Tanaka
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There are a few specific situations where inkjet printers make more
sense. For very light duty, a sub-$100 inkjet is hard to beat. Cartridge
replacement cost, which is the biggest ongoing expense with an inkjet,
isn't going to be much of a factor if you don't print much or often.
For fine art and photography printmaking where resolution, tonal range,
archival permanence and colour fidelity are important, a six- or eight-
coi6ur photo inkjet is so superior to a colour laser that there's no contest.
As well, if you need printouts that are larger than letter or legal size, you
can get into a wide-carriage inkjet for less money than a tabloid laser.
But for general colour work for business applications like flyers or for
personal publishing projects like reunion scrapbooks etc. where you
might want 10 or 20 multi-page documents, a colour laser is worth
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Sound's Important — Everywhere!
Digital Audio Editing, Part 2
Its long been the shame of many video producers that audio is the poor
cousin in the media world. Often, as little as 10 per cent of a video's
production budget is spent on sound, and just as often, that is to the
video's loss.
Put another way: how long did silent movies (pictures without good
sound) last, as opposed to radio (good sound without pictures)?
As we saw in last month's DV, or Not DV, PC-based hardware support for
audio production is becoming more common, more functional and more
economical. In fact, the last issue of HUB: Digital Living, subtitled The Audio
Issue, was dedicated to sounding good — whether singing, playing an
instrument or building sound samples.
As was explained, there are dedicated software solutions for each:
great music programs for creating your very own CD, looping programs
for original musical tracks, sampling tools and MIDI programs f o r
sequencing and composing, powerful programs for recording, mixing and
publishing music.
And, as digital video editors know, pretty much every video editing
software program has some sort of audio functionality, from basic two-
track sound tools t o sophisticated m u l t i -track audio m i x i n g and
manipulation programs. Video editors like Adobe Premiere do have some
audio functionality; Audition is the company's dedicated sound program,
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and while it is well-used for music, jingles and soundtrack work, it is
very good for spoken word material as well. Likewise, Apple's Final Cut
Pro has audio tools, but nowhere near as many or as powerful as in its
dedicated audio program, Soundtrack.
So, with a simple nod to the those and other powerful audio tools
(Cubase, or Pro-Tools, come on down!), here in Part Two, we'll look at a
couple of software programs for the editing and production of spoken
word or vocal-based audio content.
Let's start where things sound good right off the bat: good, easy
and cheap!
Audacity is a handy little audio recording and editing program for all
PCs and their operating systems. It is open source software, freely
distributed under the General Public License (my copy of the program
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software, Audacity's source code is open and available to investigation,
enhancements and improvements from the user base.
Audacity works with high quality sound, and can record and edit
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re-sampling algorithms, Audacity works with a wide range o f audio
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formats is available, but Audacity does not currently support WMA, MC,
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and Delete metaphor, manipulating sound clips is as easy as doing word
processing. There's unlimited undo (and redo), so mistakes are easily
corrected and processes easily isolated.
The program uses what's known as an "Envelope" tool for fading or raising
volume smoothly, and a mouse-driven "Drawing" tool to alter individual
sample points.
Even though I have access to other audio programs, and powerful video
editing tools, I often use Audacity for editing spoken-word podcasts. It's
ability to help me quickly cut out unwanted sections, clean up undesirable
noises, and package the 'cast with music, effects or other sound sources is
hard to beat — especially at the price.
n-Track is an audio and MIDI editing software, newly available in its
Studio 5 version.
This Windows-only PC program is available in 32- and 64-bit flavours
(running natively on x64 versions). Using a 64 bit internal sound path
makes for the maximum audio quality available on today's CPUs. It's priced
at less than 51.00.
nTrack is optimized for the latest dual-core and hyperthreading CPUs, and
its multithreaded design takes advantage of extra CPU's processing power
to support more tracks and effects. Depending on the song structure and
buffer size, the gain over a regular CPU can be around 1.7x (dual-core) or
1.1x (hyperthreading), according to the manufacturer.
n-Track is compatible with a wide variety of 16- and 24-bit single and
multichannel soundcards that use PCI, USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) or audio
interfaces with Asio, WDM, MME, DirectSound or other compatible audio
drivers (again, refer to the last issue of HUB: DL for details about audio
technicalities).
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that transforms your PC into a powerful audio recording studio. You can
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It's not quite as easy as Audacity to get audio in and out quickly, but it does
allow for a lot more audio processing and manipulation. Built-in effects
include reverb, compression, parametric and graphic ED, echo, pitch shift,
chorus, multiband compression, and a spectrum analyzer.
At the higher price points expected for the most powerful and feature
packed audio software programs comes Antares and the latest version of
was expected at press time — but note that no plans for dual core support
were announced.)
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Auto-Tune is called a professional pitch correction solution for Mac OS X
and Windows XP, and it's used primarily to correct intonation problems in
vocal or solo instrumental performance. It does so in real-time, without
distortion or artifacts, while keeping all of the expressive nuances of the
original performance.
Over a typical pitch correction range, it is simply not possible to tell that a
sound has been processed, except that it is perfectly in tune. It's possible
to -save" even the most off-key or vibrato-saturated vocal (or instrumental)
performance, and that's why it is well-known and well-liked in the music
recording business.
Another Antares program, called Throat, is a dedicated "vocal designer" —
a "physical modeller" of spoken sounds, effects and artifacts — even to the
point, for example, of adding "breathiness" to a recording.
According to some observers (studio engineers are notoriously close-
lipped), programs like Antares' are why many hits from artists like Cher,
Green Day, and even Paris Hilton sound so good — or to put it another way,
are so pitch perfect!
You may not need the power or expense — around 8600 — of programs
like Antares for your audio editing needs, but know they are out there.
If needed, they can change audio from the poor cousin to the media
family favourite.
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Film f e s t g o e s mobile
Movies shot with cell phones shown on large screens
The mobile movie phenomenon — content produced on and created with
mobile phones — is gaining both popularity and respect among filmmakers
as it opens new avenues for creative visual output as well as a compelling
new genre for storytelling.
Media mobility brought together Motorola a n d t h e 2 0 0 6 Toronto
International Film Festival.
Six unique and ground-breaking mobile shorts created by filmmakers from
the Talent Lab MotoFilm Project were released during the Festival after being
processed to make them suitable for big-screen viewing. Each was shown in
the theatres, and online as streaming video.
Motorola provided the filmmakers with a Moto° videophone, and service
from Bell Mobility to experience mobile moviemaking first-hand. Some also
used Moto's V635 phone.
One o f the participants, Gass-Donnelly, an award-winning film director,
stage producer and music video maker, used his video-enabled handsets for
an innovative piece created for the band The Fembots, and the song History
Remade about the history of Toronto, its people and places.
By creating a unique camera rig of five handsets mounted along a block
of Styrofoam, Gass-Donnelly was able t o add a panoramic feel to his
eye-grabbing video.
He described cell phone-acquired video as having "a very specific look, use
and response. It's almost iconic; people instantly know it's 'cell phone.' Like
the Polaroid snapshot, cell phone video is very self-referential."
Aesthetically, Gass-Donnelly found a mobile video does have a new
identity. Technically, it has some hang-ups too, such as the non-existence of
time code exists on cell phone video. "It has a shallow depth of field, and a
forced perspective to it: he adds. The video shot was 15 frames per second
(as opposed to film's 24, or video's normal 30), but he was still limited to
shooting in three minute chunks, owing to the size of the handset's internal
memory card — in this case, 512MB.
Cell phone image dimensions are usually 126 x 144 pixels, a far cry from the
1920 x 1080 size of high definition video. It was obviously necessary to blow
up the video for theatrical release, but the problems of pixelation, image
degradation and aspect ratio conversion were not inconsequential.
Nevertheless, another participant, filmmaker Andy Marshall found new
ways to combine his many interests on the small screen.
"The cell phone lets you into places where normally you wouldn't — or
couldn't — have video cameras," he says. "Wherever you can take a phone,
you can make a movie. Also, because of its size and its 'normalcy' (pretty
much everyone is comfortable and familiar with cell phones), it gives great
access to subjects and scenery. It's perfect for documentary filmmaking, as
a cell phone is a lot less intimidating than a camera, and also for guerrilla
filmmaking, if there's footage you have to get 'undercover':
For other mobile short initiatives, visit www.motorola.ca/motoreel.
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from a height of a few metres. But before the notebook can crash to the
What would you do if you were the world's third biggest personal computer floor, tiny jetpack thrusters emerge from the sides of the machine causing
maker but scant few in North America had even heard o f you? That's it to hover momentarily before gently landing on the floor.
Lenovo's cross to bear.
Some recent history: Lenovo i s the China-based personal computer Len,-
manufacturer that acquired IBM's personal computer division for USS1.25 Murray Wright, President of Lenovo Canada, says the challenge here is
billion in 2005. That acquisition gave Lenovo a couple of valuable brands — similar to Lenovo's problem in the Americas as a whole — combating the
the ThinkPad notebook and ThinkCenter desktop lines — and vaulted it to "Lenovo who?" syndrome.
Number-Three globally, behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard. With the 'Think" product line inherited from IBM, Lenovo Canada has held
Taking over those marquees gave Lenovo a considerable and immediate its own, and Wright says Lenovo Canada has maintained a Number-Two
slice o f the North American market, but that's not enough to ensure position in commercial PCs this year. To further bolster its position among
long-term success for two reasons. First, the halo effect of Big Blue heritage business users, in September Lenovo Canada signed a deal with Air Canada
won't linger forever (Lenovo can use the IBM moniker for up to five years). under which Lenovo will supply almost 100 PCs to Air Canada's 19 Maple
The premium IBM brands are vulnerable to depreciation — either real or in Leaf Lounge Business Centres, located here and abroad.
the minds of potential purchasers — into parity products from yet another One of the biggest challenges for Lenovo Canada is that it started with zero
far-east PC builder. retail presence. Earlier this year, it introduced the first new PCs for North
Second, today's PC game is as much about consumer retail as biz2biz, and America under its own brand. Called the Lenovo 3000, it includes desktop
oops — IBM got out of the retail PC market years ago. You just don't see and notebook models, and will be the products the company uses to tackle
ThinkPad or ThinkCenter PCs in electronics and office supply retail stores the retail market. So now, if you go to office supply chains in Canada, you
alongside HP, Acer and the like. So even with IBM's portfolio, Lenovo has no may actually come across Lenovo branded products.
shelf presence where we ordinary citizens shop. By David Tanaka
What is the company doing about that? To provide some answers, Lenovo
Canada recently arranged a media tour to its product development centre
in Raleigh, North Carolina and invited HUB: DL along. Raleigh was chosen, I
Lenovo a force in Asia-Pacific
suspect, because it's home to one of IBM's premium R&D centres — and
Lenovo has retailing smarts and a portfolio of products aimed at the
when the new Lenovo facility is complete, one of Lenovo's premium R&D
consumer market. For example, it is the biggest domestic cell phone
centres as well. The Raleigh venue helped communicate a message about
brand in China and has about 20 per cent of the PC market there. The
continuity from IBM to Lenovo. Continuity in staff, since many of the key
trouble is, it has operated almost exclusively in the Asia-Pacific region,
IBMers that shaped IBM PC product development are now part o f the
mostly in China.
Lenovo crew; as well as continuity of product quality and innovation, as a
You might have seen Legend brand motherboards in Canadian shops
tour of the new product showcase and briefings indicated.
in the late 90s. Legend was the anglicized name of Lianxiang Company,
Deepak Advani, a senior VP and chief marketing officer said that Lenovo's
which has been around since the mid-1980s and morphed into Lenovo,
main marketing slogan i s "the best engineered PCs." To bolster that
or 'the new Legend" in 2003.
claim, Daryl Cromer, who is the executive director of Lenovo's Raleigh
Advanced Technology Center talked about some of the innovations that
flowed out of the centre when it was IBM-run, and continue to flow under
Lenovo's direction.
ThinkPads have long been popular with business users for a few reasons,
not the least of which is the overall physical robustness of the machines.
I've seen IBM reps stand on them, pour water onto the keyboard and fling
them onto the floor. Dog and pony show theatrics for sure, but they
demonstrate some o f the engineering within t h e machines — a n
accelerometer that detects sudden movements and parks the hard drive
heads to avoid HOD crashes, rigid alloy cases that reduce screen flexing
and breakage, and waterproof pans under the keyboard (complete with
drainage holes). Under Lenovo, the latest innovation is the roll cage, a
magnesium alloy skeleton that further protects the electronics within.
To popularize that sort o f engineering prowess, Deepak
Advani developed a viral marketing campaign
called "the Lenovo Tapes" which purport to be
secret tapes showing the latest technologies
Lenovo engineers are working on. These are
entirely fictional but highly entertaining. One
shows a robot arm dropping a Lenovo notebook

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Microsoft's Games for Windows Initiative
With the launch o f two new video game consoles this month, many
.s.mics seem to think that PC gaming is, once again, on its last legs.
oft. on the hand, doesn't think so. In fact it claims that there are
more than 200 million
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complete with launch titles and exclusive game-related technology.
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anticipation for Vista.
The basic idea o f the Games f o r Windows initiative i s t o provide
developers, retailers, and garners access to whatever resources they
require to maximize their experience with the platform.
On the developer-side of things, many refinements have been made to
the qualification process used to ascertain if a game is worthy of the
'Games for Windows' branding. Endorsement falls into two categories,
each w i t h t h e i r o w n s e t o f requirements. Essentials, whose
recommendations are comparatively fundamental (support for the
Xbox 3 6 0 Controller and Vista's Windows Game Explorer) and
Showcases, which go a. step further by supporting additional, more
advanced, Windows technology (like DirectX 10 and 64-bit multi-core
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Although regarded as the pinnacle of car audio when they debuted just a is capable of playing encoded music before you burn the disc. Today's
couple decades ago, retail music CDs are certainly not that today. They better decks support MP3, WMA and AAC playback, and many offer multiple
simply don't hold enough songs compared to modern, ultra-compressed lines of display too.
MP3 standards. They typically incorporate just three or four really good Still, compressed music CDs aren't today's best option. For that, you need
tunes and a ton of filler, and they have fixed playlists. Thusly, even if you to escape the realm of CDs and lasers entirely. One of the hottest trends
have a dozen of them rattling around your car ready to fall out of their cases involves the marriage of portable music players and car decks.
or be swapped in and out of your deck, you have maybe a couple hours of The most affordable method is an FM transmitter, a smallish device that
good music. plugs into an iPod-type player and essentially acts as a miniature radio -
You could buy yourself a CD changer, but then you'd lose a chunk of trunk station, wirelessly broadcasting your playlist through your deck's FM tuner.
space and you'd still have just a fraction of the A-list songs your buddy Pricier transmitters will also charge your iPod's battery via an additional
stores in his comparatively miniscule portable music player. cigarette lighter cable.
A better answer is to stop allowing those pesky retail CDs in your car in the
first place. RC.J'
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sounds like FM radio, complete with all the inherent interference and
The easiest and most obvious way to do so is to bum a best-of MP3 CO. low-grade fidelity. Moreover, some transmitters work efficiently only when
Considering that a 192Kbps compressed music track sounds virtually they're positioned literally inches from the deck. And none of them will
identical to CO-quality audio when you're zipping along at 80 kph yet is just allow you to control your iPod through your deck.
three to six MB in size, and given that a standard recordable CD will handle A better idea for those with a dash-mounted cassette deck is a cassette
about 700 MB of data, you can count on fitting perhaps a couple hundred adapter. Looking just like a standard cassette but with a short cord that
songs per disc. You can double or even triple that i f you're willing to connects to your portable player's 3.5mm headphone or line-out jack, an

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adapter delivers better audio than an FM transmitter and, in rare cases,
supports limited thru-the.deck iPod control. Yet the setup is convoluted,
and the resulting sound is not as clean or as punchy as that of an MP3 CD. from the deck.
Truth is that if you're serious about your music, you'll want a hardwired
solution. If, for example, you have both an iPod and a factory or aftermarket
deck that supports a CO changer, you may want to look online or at your
local car dealership or audio center for a proprietary iPod adapter. Plug one
end to your iPod, the other to the CD changer jack at the rear of your car
deck, and find somewhere to mount the adapter box. Not only does this
setup deliver full fidelity sound and at least some degree of thru-the-deck
control, but it also chargeS your player's battery.
If your deck has a 3.5mm auxiliary input, you have yet another hardwired
option. Auxiliary jacks are nothing new in the world o f car audio, as
evidenced b y t h e fact that even slow moving North American c a r
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featured in top-end decks by the likes of Kenwood, Alpine and Clarion, USB
offers uninterruptible two-way communication. Thus, you can listen to your
iPod o r non•iPod player in full high fidelity, charge its batteries, and
conveniently control all its functions and see all its playlist information
right there on your dashboard.
Moreover, USB is the ideal answer for those who would rather store their
music on a comparatively inexpensive flash memory "thumb" drive or even
a miniature hard drive. Merely run the USB cable from the back of the deck
into the glove compartment or some other inconspicuous cubbyhole,
connect the drive, and control everything from your deck. Some USB decks,
such a s those i n Kenwood's Excelon series, offer -voice indexing,"
wherein a synthesized voice announces each new artist, genre, or sort
function. You don't even need to take your eyes from the road to know
what's coming up next.
It's important to note, however, that car USB is still in its infancy and the
list of supported USB devices is not set in stone. Kenwood, for example, has
officially approved just a smattering of the current crop of flash memory
drives. Furthermore, USB connections are limited b y the amount o f
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and a faceplate-mounted SD memory card reader. A dash-mounted USB
port? Great idea, right? Well, yes, except when you accidentally brush your
hand past the dash and snap the protruding drive in half, or accidentally
leave it in your dash when you exit the car and attract every thief in the
neighbourhood. Fortunately, the memory card loads inside the unit.
With all these options, each of which is theoretically far superior to any CD you need is a deck that supports HD and a separate HD receiver. Indeed,
technology, a CD-less car audio future would appear to be at hand. And some decks now feature a completely integrated HO solution.
indeed it is. Clarion, for one, will unveil a lineup of no-CD decks at the
Consumer Electronics Show in January, 2007. Featuring USB and SD
memory card slots, an FM tuner, and Bluetooth support, the units will in all
probability be the first in a new wave of audio hubs that usher the once
proud compact disc out the proverbial tailpipe.
The future also looks bright for motorists who don't want to bother with
personalized music collections at all, and prefer instead that old standby,
radio. Apart from standard AM and FM, listeners now have the option of
satellite radio, a subscription service that delivers a wide variety o f
commercial-free channels to anyone who owns a satellite receiver. The
primary benefits o f satellite radio are its
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anywhere on the continent. Moreover, fans
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are drawbacks. Satellite is a paid service
that currently costs between S12 and S15 per month. Additionally, because
even the most advanced car decks don't include a satellite receiver, you
must buy and install a separate receiving unit.
A potentially better bet for those among us who'd rather save than spend
our money is HD Radio. HO Radio is essentially an analog-to-digital upgrade
of the standard AM and FM signals, wherein the AM band sounds as good as
traditional FM stereo and the FM band sounds almost as good as*your CD
player. HD is not a subscription service, so you won't pay monthly fees. All
The most discussed downside t o HD Radio i s that it's funded b y
commercials —the same commercials you'll hear through standard AM and
FM. Furthermore, being a terrestrial rather than satellite-based technology,
the HD signal will degrade as you move further from the nearest tower. But
the biggest hurdle for Canadian HD Radio fans may be accessibility. Digital
radio [once more commonly known as DAB, or"digital audio broadcasting")
hasn't exactly taken off in this country, due mostly to red tape, technical
issues, and an apparent lack o f consumer interest. Surveys suggest
consumers wanted better content, among other things. Though HD Radio
technology permits "multicasting" (the broadcast of two simultaneous
programs — one each in digital and analog format) doing so is nattirally a
more expensive proposition for the radio station. It's a Catch-22 situation
that may or may not be solved anytime soon. Stay tuned.
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