http://blog.daryll.net The world from the view of a post production startup Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:39:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Linda and I decided we need to get out of the house for a bit yesterday. We jumped on the motorcycle and took a ride over to the Griffith Park Merry Go Round. It's was a fun trip. We hung out and had lunch, watched the kids, listened to the ... http://blog.daryll.net/2009/01/a-trip-to-the-griffith-park-merry-go-round/ 34.13271583224087 -118.28378677368164 American Home Shield is a waste of money. My experiences with them have been completely useless. I believe their business practices are designed to maximize their profits at the expense of the home owners and the contractors they hire. This post is an explanation of my latest encounter and a ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/12/why-american-home-shield-is-a-rip-off/ 33.869807 -118.381656 Yesterday my HD Tivo received the fall update which includes support for Netflix video on demand. I have to say that it is really well done from the user experience to the quality of the video itself. For a detailed description of how it works, what I thought of the ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/12/first-experience-netflix-on-tivo-hd/ This post is a response to Stacey Higginbotham's article on GigaOM entitled Why 3-D TV Technology Is All Hype. In her article she points out that the Electronic Technology Center's efforts are aimed at testing compatability for content creators, not designing a consumer standard, and without a consumer standard you ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/08/why-3d-tv-technology-is-coming/ Anwar Ghuloum is a Principal Engineer with Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab, and recently wrote a blog post titled Unwelcome Advice. He proposes that developers should start thinking now about using hundreds or thousands of cores.This has gotten some web coverage at places like slashdot. In the film industry we do have ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/07/how-many-cores-do-we-need/ The onslaught of invitations for social networks is really starting to get to me. My friends have joined a variety of different trust, social, content sharing networks. They pick whatever ones they think work best for them. The problem is that I don't want to join all of them to ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/05/social-networking-overload/  I was having a conversation with a colleague today and we were frustrated by how long it seems to take to get anything done. In this particular case we're trying to schedule a meeting between a few people. We've both worked at large companies and small ones, but we realized ... http://blog.daryll.net/2008/01/why-does-it-take-so-long/ This is the trailer for a reality program called Tiger Team which is going to be airing on CourtTV (which, by the way, will be renaming themselves TruTV in January). It's a reality show where they follow a company that does security penetration testing. You contract with them to break ... http://blog.daryll.net/2007/12/tiger-team-on-courttv/ We got our groove on Saturday night at Harvelle's in Redondo Beach with grammy award winning blue artist John Lee Hooker Jr. This was the end of the promotional tour for his latest albumn, Cold as Ice. He puts on a great high energy show. He did a mix a ... http://blog.daryll.net/2007/12/john-lee-hooker-jr-at-harvelles-redondo/ I've been in the effects business for 15 years. Now I have a small business trying to use commodity parts to solve expensive film/HDTV production problems. Sometimes 25 years after the film was made. It's all about getting the shot done. Before the days of digital effects, they would ... http://blog.daryll.net/2007/10/re-blade-runner-and-the-merits-of-rain/