by Michael Baskin | Jan 26, 2017 | Misc., Multimedia
You have all your pictures, you want to make them digital. You have a scanner, a cup of coffee and lots of free time. Now what? How do you know what settings to set? Scanner setting are measured in resolution. Each horizontal line that is scanned is measured in...
by Michael Baskin | Jan 17, 2017 | Multimedia, Video
With the growing number of smart TVs and the growing number of file formats and Codecs, how do you know what will work and what will not? What will the future hold? Samsung has been the leader in the smart TV world in my humble opinion. Sony has done a good job with...
by Michael Baskin | Jan 12, 2017 | Films
What causes your film to decay? First we need to look at what film is. Film is a plastic base (cellulose acetate) with a gelatin emulsion layer over top of it. The Emulsion holds the image left over after exposed parts have gone. Old black and white film is simply...
by Michael Baskin | Jan 10, 2017 | Multimedia, Video
There has been a lot going on in the world of video playback on computers recently. Two major events have happened. 1) Quicktime announced that it will no longer support its windows software with security updates. 2) Widows 10 updates have caused MP4 playback and...
by Michael Baskin | Jan 5, 2017 | Multimedia
As we progress into times where file sizes of portable media are getting huge, there is a lot to learn about how any why file size restrictions exist. Drag and Drop of files is limited in size depending on the formatting of the drive. For most applications, file...
