http://www.realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1527 Real Kato Comments en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:25:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ken's RSS Script http://www.realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1527 This will be of interest to only one or two of my regular readers, I'm sure.<br/><br/>Last week, Sanyo came out with new camcorders that support a video format called "iFrame", and it's a format developed by Apple. It appears to be a 960x540 H.264 video format; that's exactly one-quarter the size of 1920x1080 HD video.<br/><br/>Why the new format? My guess is: Apple wanted a standard camcorder format based on H.264, so that iMovie could edit the video without trans-coding first. Also, Apple wanted a widescreen (16:9) format with square pixels (not anamorphic) that took up less space than HD video. Most camcorders today use 720x480 for SD video, but that's not a widescreen format.<br/><br/>So why come out with this now? The conventional wisdom is that Apple is planning a video push in two areas: one, the long-neglected AppleTV device, and two, the much-rumored tablet device. It's conceivable that Apple would choose iFrame to publish non-HD <i>TV shows</i>, to avoid having to letterbox the video.<br/><br/>Expect to see an announcement from Apple soon.<br/> Ken Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:36:12 +0000 http://www.realkato.com/blog.php?pid=1527