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December 02, 2005
Broadcast 2.0 in Motion: Filmmaker Debuts Movie on Akimbo
Disruption in the "traditional" broadcasting industry continues each day. While I wonder why it took "so long", it was great to hear the news that earlier this week, filmmaker Stephen Mitchell debuted his new movie, "Point of Departure" on the Internet using a service from Akimbo.
As other filmmakers start to feel comfortable with the concept of going "direct to the Net", I expect that 2006 will be year when this starts to become norm, rather than the exception.
Tags: akimbo, broadcast 2.0
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Posted by jeff on December 2, 2005 07:04 AM | Permalink
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On Point-of-Departure's web site, I see no link to an Akimbo download. I presume they would be Akimbo-loading the same 1100Kbps stream I see for the trailer. The quality is horrible. It drops about 30% of the frames, all the video is streaky and chunky, and the audio is overmodulated. If I bought an Akimbo box, then paid for this movie, I would not be happy. Why use Akimbo when I can make that video a beautiful streaming-on-demand delivery to any Windows Media player?
Posted by: Chip Ruhnke at December 8, 2005 05:19 PM