CineNow! is happy to announce that Patrick McGrath, Director of Technology at Ripfactory will be bringing his experience to you by devoting a fortnightly column to the analysis of issues surrounding home theatre and media, commenting on related areas, shedding some light on the mysteries and unanswered questions, examining the challenges and opportunities that exist, and at the end of it all hopefully stimulating a little debate.
Get to know Patrick in the first two video clips we did last year :
- The future of Digital Media, audio and video, with Patrick McGrath
- Ripfactory-full digital media services
Ripfactory is the recognised industry leader in automated CD and DVD Video encoding. Over the last 15 years working in the industry, Patrick has covered a lot of ground in the audio, video and custom installation sector, particularly focussing on the emergence of digital file based platforms such as media servers. At Ripfactory, their aim is to provide innovative and creative solutions to some of the challenges in this emerging digital space.
We’ll be starting with the topic of HD-DVD and Blue Ray Content and in the following weeks will be discussing such matters as:
- Digital Rights management and its effects on the industry
- Apple – iTV and iPod – the basis for whole house entertainment?
- On line video distribution and on demand services
- Media servers – the future
In addition, video clips will also be added to the column, featuring Patrick’s thoughts on the Digital Rights Management issue and other relevant topics.
Throughout the columns you will find information on topics geared towards new users of the technology and a more in depth technical perspective.
What do you, our readers, want to have discussed ?!?! Patrick welcomes ideas for columns or questions regarding the challenges in the emerging digital industry and will endeavour to answer as many as possible.
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