OK, so it wasn't secret and it wasn't a ball either but I couldn't resist the reference. Ben Waggoner hosted a party for video compressionists at NAB this year and I dragged myself there. I was feeling worse for wear not because of over-indulgences in Vegas, but rather the effects of a nasty 76 hour...

Here's some video I shot around the Microsoft booth at NAB , focusing on Expression Encoder . You'll see Brandon, one of our very own Encoder program managers, in the middle of some exceptional demoing. The video is of course hosted using the Silverlight Streaming Service and was encoded using Expression...

I have a love/hate relationship with AVCHD . My little Canon HG10 is a hard-drive AVCHD high-definition camcorder. It is small, takes beautiful video, has a nice lens and generally does pretty much everything you could want from a consumer-grade device. What's not to like? The editing workflow. Quite...

We had a Microsoft Expression pod at the Microsoft booth and spent most of the time talking about Expression Encoder 2 . This was the first opportunity for many people to actually see the new version of Expression Encoder and in some cases, the first time for them to see Expression Encoder at all! All...

My first NAB is over and both my voice and feet are glad! It was a good event - good for Microsoft, good for me in terms of making contacts and getting to know the industry a little bit better. NAB consists of a number of things: Demoing stuff at your booth, Checking out other booths, Setting up, missing...