Plazmic consists of 3 components: player for 503-series, a tool for
producing static content (which is then served from an ordinary web server),
a server-side solution for producing dynamic content with a Java API. Their
current campaign is to promote people getting their feet wet using the
player and tool to develop static content (for free) and if you want to
deploy dynamically-created SVG/PME (Plazmic media engine) content, you talk
to them about licensing their server. My impression is that most of the
existing content out there is static.
Regards
Michael.
>From: Jay <wirelessjava@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
>Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Plazmic SDK and their SVG == Scaleable Vector
>Graphics SDK Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 01:49:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>What I have heard from them it is mostly a dynamic content tool. Someone
>said a great analogy that it is more of a Flash like technology for the
>phone. I would think the Japanese would prefer that type of content
>rather than a static i-mode site
>---Jay
> Colin Mack wrote:
>
>On 2002.08.09, at 16:46, Jason Pollard wrote:
>
> >
> > Have you had a look at the doja2 specs? It doesn't support SVG, but the
> > graphics capabilities are greatly extended over those of the doja1/i503.
> > Assuming (and I do that a lot) that it should be possible to do with
> > doja2 most
> > of what Plasmic offers, I was wondering if the Plasmic products
> > (keitai-side,
> > anyway) are still relevant?
>
>Yes, even more relevant I would think. Plazmic's value is that it's a
>ready-to-go end-to-end deal. They're not selling some huge technological
>breakthrough -- just saving you a lot of time if what you want to do is
>something Flash-like. Just putting a subset of SVG onto an imode appli
>is not such a hard task . Nothing you couldn't do yourself IF you had
>the time. Time to develop appli, tools AND server stuff. That's a lot of
>man-months. Now that 504 expands possibilities so much, having a
>ready-to-go system is more of a value since developing the same kind of
>thing yourself is even more man-months now as you have room to implement
>far more features than on 503.
>
>
> > I suppose so, since a good toolkit will greatly
> > decrease time to market like many a higher level API. Nonetheless,
> > 504's 100K
> > limit, tho an order of magnitude greater than 503, still doesn't leave
> > much
> > room for your iApplis when you have a 3rd party toolkit/library onboard
> > as
> > well.
>
>Their current deal is not a library that coexists with your appli code;
>it is a complete appli that plays back content (including flash-like
>interactivity) created with their tools. You don't write an appli; you
>just use their playback engine appli.
>
>
> > Do you know how big the 2 second anime file itself was?
>
>I don't recall exactly, but the deal on the 503 stuff I saw was along
>the lines of 5k per download. So for example the amazing Mickey the
>Wizard intro animation on Disney's "Character Personality Type Check"
>thing takes about 5~10 sec to download for a 2 sec anim. But a VERY
>fabulous 2 second anim! The disney anims use a lot of bitmaps (as
>opposed to vector graphics) so they tend to be on the large size
>data-wise. You can get a lot more mileage for your kb from using all
>vector stuff.
>
> >
> > --Jason
> >
> >
> > --- Colin Mack wrote:
> >>
> >> I've seen demos and heard the sales pitch twice now. They are very
> >> cagey
> >> about cost discussions, not giving out any fixed price info and such,
> >> so
> >> you'll want to bring a good negotiator along if you're going to license
> >> it.
> >>
> >> My impressions:
> >>
> >> The technology has a lot of promise in that some of the Disney stuff
> >> and
> >> some of the samples they show are reeeealllly nice looking, and the
> >> tools are very flash-like so you can get started quickly and make nice
> >> stuff.
> >>
> >> The only real downside I saw is that it's still too much data and
> >> application size for 503 level phones -- too much waiting for a
> >> pretty 2
> >> second anim sequence. It is more suited to 504-level and beyond phones.
> >>
> >> It's nice that you can try out all the tools and test server for free
> >> before committing. Of course this could bring with it all the dangers
> >> of
> >> the heroin dealer's "the first shot's free..." marketing approach ;)
> >>
> >> - Colin
> >>
> >
> >
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