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RawFlow, a leading provider of live peer-to-peer streaming technology for internet broadcasts announced that it will exhibit and sponsor the IPTV World Forum in London in March 2007. The company will also demo its revolutionary to-be-launched live publishing tool for User Generated Broadcasting more
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than 70% of camcorders sold in the
Internet Video Magazine (http:www.internetvideomag.com) today announced they have added a hundred new Internet Videos to their featured spotlight of Best Videos of the Week, Best Video Web Sites of the Week, Best Music Videos of the Week, and as well to the Parody Commercial, Funny, Political, Cat & Dog, and Star Wars videos sections. There's a bunch of new flicks at the Holiday Films section including great new Santa and Winter Holiday movies. more
In response to the consumer demand for a single software application, Sony Media Software has broken out DVD Architect Studio that was previously included in the Vegas Movie Studio+DVD bundle. You no longer have to buy the entire Vegas Movie Studio to use htis powerful DVD creation application for DVD authoring for movies, song compilations and picture slideshows. more
Try out the new version of Adobe Phtoshop Cs3 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP and Windows Vista computers. more If you can hum the melody, Navio can find it for you on the web. Nayio Media, Inc. launched the first melody-based Internet search tool on its website, Nayio.com. Nayio’s humming search tool guides consumers to songs even when they don’t remember the words; on Nayio.com, if you can hum it, you can find it. Through a strategic partnership with Napster (Nasdaq: NAPS), the digital music pioneer, the service cross-references the hummed melody with Napster’s massive library of more than three million songs and delivers a list of potential matches. more
Send a Stupid Video Holiday card to your friends and family! StupidVideos.com (www.stupidvideos.com), the leading user-generated video site for humorous stunts, bloopers, standup comedy and everyday laughter, today introduced a new service, called SV eCards, through which users can send their friends and family free video egreetings that stream popular StupidVideos clips. more Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech) today announced that the implementation of engineering enhancements on the award winning NewerTech miniStack V2 combo external storage solution and integrated FireWire and USB 2.0 port expansion hub has resulted in even quieter operation. more December 9, 2006- San Diego, CA - Internet Video Magazine announces 10 New Years Resolutions for the Home Video Enthusiast and Home Movie Maker. Maybe you have been making home movies and tapes for awhile and somehow your friends and family never seem to want to watch them? These resolutions may help turn your video experience around... more
This looks pretty cool. Now kids can direct, produce and screen their own action movies with the Marvel Heroes Ani-Movie from Jazwares, Inc. Using the latest stop motion, digital technology, the Ani-Movie lets young filmmakers create and edit action-packed movies and view them on their own television OR upload it to YouTube! more
AtomFilms® (www.atomfilms.com) debuted an all-new version of its award-winning entertainment web site, introducing a broadband television experience that makes it easy to discover, watch and share thousands of original short movies and web shows. Among the site's new features are a syndicated video player that can be embedded on other sites, a high-resolution video playback option, and customizable channels and content alerts. more With director brandon dickerson as its central directorial talent, kaboom productions has launched music video division BOOM. For dickerson, who is known for his clips for Sixpence None The Richer, Thousand Foot Krutch, Dishwalla, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Vince Gill and Switchfoot, the move was sparked by the desire to have complete representation under one roof. For kaboom founder/executive producer lauren schwartz, establishing BOOM further solidifies the company as a complete content provider. more Mac Users and Windows Users can now easily add extra monitors to their machines without having to open up their machines and add in special video cards. Matrox Graphics Inc. announced that the Matrox DualHead2Go™ and TripleHead2Go™ are now compatible with Windows and Mac® systems. From the Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM) product line, both DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go are palm-sized boxes that connect externally to a notebook or desktop computer and uniquely allow users to attach two or three monitors respectively for an incredible multi-monitor configuration. This is great for video editing! more
JVC now offers an alternative to the "one size fits all" approach to noise canceling headphones with the introduction of a dual-mode model that allows users to choose the mode that best suits the situation. more
Adopt a Booty Today - Please help us with this very serious campaign to get booties treated nicely. They're the most maligned creatures on Earth. You've been asked to adopt babies, soldiers, communities, highways, rivers, streams, cats, dogs (including pit bulls) and virtual pets. Some of you kind souls responded generously by adopting these people, creatures, things or natural wonders. Booties are natural wonders too more
So you want to direct or make your own movie but don't have any money? Or a script or even a cameraman? Film School in a Box (FSB) is launching a unique new product that allows anyone to create their own feature film. Shot in real time and on multiple cameras, the gripping footage is an unfolding thriller waiting to be shaped. Shot on 11 security cameras, the voyeuristic ‘neo-noir’ thriller unfolds a whodunit mystery surrounding the murder of a young girl. And since the movie can be edited into as many unique films as there are filmmakers who lay their hands on it, the film you choose to make will ultimately be your own. more Sundance
Institute, a champion for independent filmmakers for over 25 years,
announced that it is joining forces with the GSM Association (GSMA), whose
members serve more than 2 billion mobile phone customers across the globe,
to create the Sundance Film Festival: Global Short Film Project,
a groundbreaking pilot project that will showcase and extend the reach of
the independent short film genre to mobile users worldwide.
more
LuxuryTravel.TV, launching in the first half of 2007, is produced by Luxury Travel Media. The company currently publishes Luxury Travel Magazine, www.luxurytravelmagazine.com, the Internet's most comprehensive information resource for discerning travelers. more
Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is expanding its popular Pinnacle PCTV™ product family with the addition of Pinnacle PCTV To Go. This new product gives customers the ability to enjoy their home entertainment systems from any location in the home or around the world. Easy wireless setup, integrated Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) support and comprehensive digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities make Pinnacle PCTV To Go a must-have for anyone interested in watching high quality TV shows, sporting events, movies or news on a PC, anytime, anywhere. more JVC Professional Products Company introduced the GY-HD200U high definition camcorder that features HDV 720/60P true progressive image acquisition, new 14bit A/D converter and standard 14.4v power system, this camera has been eagerly anticipated by independent filmmakers, stringers and sports videographers. more
Sorenson Media is shipping Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 for both
Macintosh and Windows operating systems
New Features:
- Up to 3x faster than Squeeze 4.3
- DVD disc burning
- New 3GPP, PSP, Blu-ray and HD-DVD Presets
- Reading and writing metadata for all major output formats
- Works natively on both PowerPC and Intel-for-Mac using Mac
Universal Binary code
- Integrate Apple's H.264
Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), has begun shipping two PCI-E versions of the X1950PRO with AGP versions in December. The Viper X1950PRO represents the pinnacle of achievement in a wide-ranging series of high-performance graphics cards produced by Diamond and featuring the powerful ATI Radeon® chip that outperforms any other single or dual-slot solutions. This card uses the Radeon X1950 GPU and comes in both 256MB and 512MB GDDR3 interfaces. It has a core clock speed of 575MHz and a 1.38GHz memory speed. It supports Dual DVI (x2 Dual-link), HDTV, D-sub and VIVO. more
Bella
Corporation announced the immediate availability of their latest product,
the DV Keyboard 3.0. Designed for the home video enthusiast, the DV Keyboard
offers Bella’s unique built-in jog/shuttle controller – the world’s first
and only keyboard to offer this feature. The jog/shuttle controller allows
users to edit faster and more efficiently, offering precise control over
their audio and video clips.
Velocity Micro announced the availability
of ultra-performance machines based on the groundbreaking Intel® Core™ 2
Extreme QX6700 and Intel® Xeon™ 5300 series processors. The new CPUs, which
fit four execution cores in a single CPU package, can be ordered in Velocity
Micro’s ProMagix line of workstations and in select Raptor series gaming
PCs.
EyeWonder announced the full release of its all-new AdWonder™ Flash Component and Certification program. EyeWonder's new Flash module enables agencies to dramatically improve production efficiencies creating Online Video and Rich Media Ads. The new Certification Program enables creatives to highlight their expertise with the Component. more Alienware® the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center and professional systems is continuing to feed the needs of graphic-hungry users. The PC maker will equip its most powerful desktops with the unprecedented new NVIDIA® GeForce(TM) 8800 GTX graphics processing units (GPU) in single or dual-GPU mode with NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology. Customers purchasing award-winning Area-51® 7500, Aurora(TM) 7500, and ALX desktops will be able to configure their systems with the industry's first GPU to be fully compliant with next-generation DirectX 10 games and applications. more
Other World Computing (OWC) announced the introduction and immediate availability of the new pocket-sized, totally bus-powered, OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro FireWire 800/400+USB2 portable storage solutions which utilize performance Serial ATA (SATA) 2.5" Hard Disk mechanisms to provide capacities of up to 200GB and priced starting from just $209.99. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro is the first-ever pocket sized, 2.5" SATA HD-based storage solution available to consumers. more
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The Financial Times has
launched an exclusive series of video interviews with global business
leaders called View From The Top.
The interviews, hosted by ROO Media, the global provider of online video
technology and syndicated content, feature global CEOs giving their views on
the world of business today and predictions for the future of their
industries. Since launching View From
The Top FT Video traffic has quadrupled. It's sort of like MySpace for home do-it-yourselfers! BobVila.com, one of the Internet’s most-visited and longest-running home improvement websites, has launched a “MyProjects” site that allows users to incite communication with one another through the sharing of ideas, photos and videos in a blog area. This has been created in conjunction with the new season of the “Bob Vila” nationally syndicated series. more
Facebook,
the Internet’s leading social utility, today announced that for the first
time people can access Facebook’s share functionality on multiple websites
to share video, photos, news and other content with their friends on
Facebook. Websites that add a link to share on Facebook will enable people
to distribute content by posting it on their Facebook profiles or by sending
it to specific Facebook friends without ever leaving the original website. Rhozet Corporation today announced the availability of Carbon Coder version 2.0, the latest version of the company's enterprise-level transcoding solution for broadcast and web professionals. Carbon Coder 2.0 provides a host of enhancements such as accelerated transcoding and support for additional video formats including H.264, MXF OPAtom, JPEG 2000, DPX, and AAC. more
Adobe Systems
Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced the public beta of Adobe® Soundbooth™ software, a new innovative and intuitive audio software product
for creating and editing audio and fixing common audio flaws using
visually-oriented tools. Unveiled to customers for the first time this week
at the MAX 2006 Adobe user conference in Las Vegas, creative professionals
now have the opportunity to test this new beta download and submit feedback
to the Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/soundbooth. Adobe Soundbooth is
available for both Intel-based Macintosh and Windows systems.
Dulles, VA and Boston, MA October 30, 2006—AOL and Brightcove launched today a distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers. more
Adobe Buys Serious Magic - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) acquired Serious Magic Inc.™, maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It™ delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe's leadership position in video software -- for both video professionals and consumers. more
JVC Professional Products Company rolls out GY-HD250U high definition camcorder. As part of its growing ProHD line, this next generation full HD resolution camcorder is the first HDV model to offer studio capabilities, and features 720/60p capture and recording for electronic newsgathering. more
ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com)
unveiled ClipBlast! VideoView™, a weekly benchmark of video supply and
demand online. When it debuts on Nov. 6, ClipBlast! VideoView will serve as
a snapshot of both what
Digital Anarchy announced the release of a Universal build for their Microcosm Codec. Microcosm is a 16-bit, lossless codec that achieves incredible compression ratios while maintaining absolute image fidelity. The codec supports alpha channels and works in all QuickTime-based applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and Avid. This new release adds compatibility for all host software running on Macintosh-Intel systems natively or through Rosetta. more
TechSmith Corp.
announced the availability of Camtasia Studio 4, enabling individuals with
no programming or multimedia expertise to create screencasts of software
demonstrations, interactive training, online marketing content, and
PowerPoint-based video presentations that can be delivered to portable media
players including the Apple iPod.
Sony Mylo is a real cool device. We played with one the DemoFall2006 conference and were very impressed. This could be the hottest thing for the upcoming holidays. This product is designed for people who use instant messaging as a primary form of communication and networking for their social life. The name mylo stands for “my life online” and the communicator lets you use instant messaging, browse the Internet, listen to music, send emails and view photos concurrently.
Digital Foci's new Picture Porter portable digital photo album with hard drive and card reader lets you instantly and securely save and view digital photos and video on an internal 40 GB hard drive wherever you go, so you can keep snapping away and not worry about running out of memory card space. With its high-capacity hard drive, you can now carry your collection of digital photos and video with you all the time right in your pocket and view them anywhere you go on Picture Porter’s bright 2" color LCD screen. With Picture Porter, you can rotate, zoom, pan your pictures, view EXIF information, and play picture slideshows for friends. You can even connect Picture Porter to a TV and share your photos and music with family and friends on a big screen in the comfort of your living room. more
A Vlog is a Vlog - If you are in San Francisco, please consider visiting the Vlog is a Vlog exhibition. October 13th - November 18th, 2006 - Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 3 - 6pm or by appointment, 510.467.4818 - MISSION 17, 2111 Mission Street at 17th St., on the fourth floor above "Thrift Town." - See selections from the collection on-line at www.avlogisavlog.blogspot.com more
Mobile Streams and Showtime Networks Inc. announced today that Mobile Streams has built an Off-Deck WAP portal to provide mobile users with access to content from SHOWTIME programs for the first time. WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol, is a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators. Mobile users with 2.5G or 3G handsets will be able to access the mobile offering, subject to carrier and handset capabilities. more PodCamp is coming to Pittsburgh - This will be the second in what's become a growing number of PodCamp "un-conferences" around the country. This is a free grassroots event dedicated to sharing information and ideas regarding blogs, vlogs, audio and video podcasting and portable media in general. more
PureVideo Networks, operator of popular video sites,
StupidVideos.com (comedy) and GrindTV.com (action sports),
today unveiled the Company's first utility, called PureVideo
Search (www.purevideo.com).
Still in beta, PureVideo Search is the Internet's first meta
search engine for video, combining the accuracy of a
crawl-based search with the timeliness of a feed-based
search, and returning the most comprehensive and relevant
results from the entire Web. PureVideo Networks'
proprietary analysis determines rankings, displaying each
result with an associated thumbnail image and a link to view
the video at the respective publisher site.
more
MAGIX announced Webradio Recorder 2, consumer software that lets everyone download and record all the latest hits off the Internet for free. 100% legal, Webradio Recorder 2 records over 3,000 International Internet radio stations and provides an improved worldwide receiver with stations to suit everyone’s musical taste. Favorite radio programs can be recorded automatically and individual songs can easily be separated from whole radio shows, burned onto CD, and archived onto a hard drive. more
Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ:
FCSE) announced the availability of version 2.0 software which adds native
QuickTime HDV support to its industry leading Direct To Edit (DTE) FS-4Pro
HD, FS-C and DR-HD100 recorders. The upgrade will be available for purchase
in disc format on the Focus Enhancements website for $39. Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, today begins shipping the X1300 PCI 256MB Viper video card. This cinematic 3D graphics card is the first Vista-ready PCI video card from Diamond and the most affordable graphics card to offer high-end features like high-definition (HD) display, using ATI's heralded Avivo display technology. more
Rhozet Corporation today announced that its Carbon Coder video transcoding technology has been selected by mobile video pioneer Actimagine for online transcoding. Rhozet's automated transcoding software allows Actimagine's partners to conveniently and remotely prepare full-length movies for playback on mobile devices. more
Looking for
easy to use versions of Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop? Adobe Systems d
(Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that that the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop
Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software for Windows are now
shipping. Photoshop Elements offers innovative ways to organize, edit and
share photo creations in new and entertaining ways. For video enthusiasts,
Adobe Premiere Elements provides a simplified user muvee, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal
Video, has released its new photoMemories stylePack, specifically designed
for making muvees out of digital pictures. This plug-in stylePack for muvee
autoProducer software features 6 new styles: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE)announced an update to the public beta of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom(tm) software is available for download from Adobe Labs (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom), this update unites the product feature set for Windows® and Macintosh platforms, giving professional photographers a new way to import, manage and showcase large volumes of digital photographs. More than 325,000 people have opted to try Lightroom during the beta period and feedback has been fueled by over 3,400 of them sharing input in Adobe online forums. The final version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is expected to ship in early 2007. more Yahoo! acquired Jumpcut, a multimedia company at the
forefront of video "remixing" and the creator of a Web property and
application that offers a publishing tool and an interactive user
community. The acquisition of Jumpcut complements Yahoo's multimedia
strategy and includes assets such as a strong team, unique technologies,
emerging brand, business partnerships and a growing community of users. To
learn more, details are available in a post on the Yahoo! Search Blog,
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000358.html and
http://blog.jumpcut.com/. Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, today announced the launch of its free-to-use Content Management solution at DEMOfall 2006. “Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a massive growth in Web 2.0 applications for consumers to help them manage their videos, photos, and blogs” said Mark Suster, CEO of Koral, “Koral is the first of a new breed of Web 2.0 solutions for businesses. Koral helps people store, share and search the business information that lives in documents, emails, web pages, and folders – while keeping everyone in sync.” more Atom Entertainment is launching a new NewsGames section on AddictingGames.com. All the games that will be on this channel will all be created around headlines in the news that will mock the most popular cultural topics of the day. Most of the games are expected to be all user generated as well so with the current technology anyone can become a game creator and it's almost as quick and easy as making the online videos. Atom is also putting its resources into getting additional content through a new business relationship with Persuasive Games, a leader in developing, producing and distributing electronic games for persuasion and instruction. more Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its Consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is unveiling several new products. The additions include the Pinnacle Studio MovieBox™ and Pinnacle Studio™ MovieBoard families, both of which allow consumers to preserve analog video content in digital format and easily create movies for sharing via DVD, the Web or Podcasting. The company has also introduced two new TV viewing products – Pinnacle PCTV™ HD Pro Stick and Pinnacle PCTV MCE Companion – for those who want to watch TV remotely on their personal computers or integrate their TV viewing experience with Microsoft® Windows® Media Center Edition (MCE). more
The Webby Awards today launched its 11th Annual Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in online film and video and interactive advertising. Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. more
Dovetail (www.dovetail.tv) is putting out a call for entries for a film competition to be judged by Dovetail users. The winning filmmaker will receive $1,000 cash and 10,000 shares of stock in the new company. Dovetail invites independent filmmakers to take their best films off the shelf and put them onto screens in the homes of Indie film fans everywhere via Dovetail. The call for entries in Dovetail's "Off the Shelf and Onto the Screen" film competition is now open through September 30, 2006. more
Content delivery network VitalStream today announced it has been selected by MySTACK, the first online video site and social network for high school athletes, as its exclusive provider for Flash video streaming. more New InterVideo iVideoToGo Platinum Converts DVDs, Video Files to iPod and PSP Movies. asy, 3-step Solution Delivers iPod and PSP Movies with Smooth, Flawless Playback more
Fliqz (www.Fliqz.com) announced a new tool that they say will allow any website to host video easily and for free. Gone are the days of expensive back-end hardware maintenance and the severe time sink related to hosting video. Now, via a quick embeddable piece of HTML code, a site can offer its users video functionality straight through their own site, not a third-party’s. more
Serious Magic, Inc.™ announced DV Rack 2.0, the latest version of its direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help generate superior quality video from an SD or HD camera connected to a laptop. With DV Rack 2.0, Serious Magic strengthens the power of its 10 production tools and now offers a version with real-time capture support for DVCPro50 and DVCProHD cameras. more
In an unprecedented move, NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates will launch an independent business-to-business marketplace designed to aggregate, monetize and distribute both NBC Universal and third party video to tens of millions of unique users worldwide. Launched with the participation of over two-dozen media partners, the nbbc (National Broadband Company) connects content owners, website owners and advertisers to create a robust viewing experience across the web. more
SONY UNVEILS CHIC NOTEBOOKS FOR THE HOME - Fashionable Colors and Design
Make VAIO N Series PCs Stylish Accessories for all Abodes. Designed to
compliment any home's motif, Sony today unveiled the VAIO® N Series
notebook computer line featuring cool colors, smooth lines and a simple
sense of style for people who want to balance form with function.
more
ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com),
a pioneering video search technology, today introduced the industry's
first online video search toolbar. ClipBlast’s patent-pending technology
gives users the ability to search for video clips from across the entire
web – a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and
ViewCast® Corporation has launched its Osprey-530 digital video capture card, the newest addition to the company's Osprey Studio Series, with all the inputs and features broadcast professionals expect. Available immediately, the card offers a combination of digital and analog inputs for live and on-demand video streaming, and interfaces with high-end broadcast gear. It is the direct result of feedback from broadcast professionals for a cost-effective solution to their needs. more
Adobe rolls out upgraded versions of Adobe Elements - Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. These are the light versions of Adobe's top of the line imaging products for digital cameras and camcorders. Both programs include much of the performance of their higher level brethren but with a much simpler and easier to use interface.
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced two milestone upgrades to its digital photo and video products for consumers, Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements 5.0 for Windows(r) and Adobe Premiere(r) Elements 3.0 for Windows. The unique integrated functionality of the products allows users to do more with their photos and videos, whether adding impact to photo slideshows with video effects and transitions, providing dramatic pauses to videos with freeze frame effects or creating professional-looking printed CD/DVD labels and covers. more
Blip.tv, an online video sharing
site that hosts and distributes
Web-based TV shows and videoblogs,
announced today that its premium
content will be available for
television viewing through Akimbo’s
Internet video-on-demand service.
By showcasing its highest-quality
and most popular online video series
through Akimbo, blip.tv ensures that
the best user-generated video will
be available in millions of homes
across the
Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), a leading provider of audio-visual connectivity and control solutions, today announced the Emerge ECMS2000U digital workstation extender, which provides hardware-based extension for digital/analog video, USB keyboard and mouse, USB media, and audio signals. The Emerge ECMS2000U extender makes it possible to back-rack broadcast quality servers without impact to post-production operations. more
Owning a Global Internet TV Station Now Affordable for Any Individual, Business, Civic Group, School, Church, Chairity or Organization on Wi-Fi TV (TM). In the world of traditional TV, a few super powerful conglomerates control the majority of the airwaves. But thanks to Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVN), the ownership of a global Internet TV channel, viewable by virtually anyone in the world with access to a high-speed Internet connection, is attainable by ordinary citizens, businesses, and affinity groups with sales representation available through the AdCalls ® Marketing Team. more
Envivio Inc., the leading provider of MPEG-4 based video encoding systems and Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, announced a technology collaboration. Envivio and Intel will collaborate to optimize the leading performance of the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5100 Series with Envivio® standard definition (SD) video encoders in order to benefit from the latest technological improvements such as Multi Core Technology. This collaboration will accelerate the adoption of Intel technologies by Envivio for its leading 4Caster™ B3 flagship encoding system. more Final Draft, Inc., publisher of Final Draft, the world’s #1-selling scriptwriting software, will honor 10 finalists from their 7th Annual Big Break! International Screenwriting Contest, sponsored by Microsoft, on Thursday, October 26 at Montmartre Lounge in Hollywood. Big Break! is a global screenwriting competition designed to support emerging creative talent by rewarding winners with cash, prizes and exposure to the entertainment industry through meetings with industry professionals, studio executives and agents. more Two New Switchers from Gefen Offer Sophisticated HDTV Integration with Serial Communications Control. Gefen continues to build on the success of its high definition video switchers, offering a new 8x1 DVI Switcher and enhanced 4x1 HDTV Switcher for multiple source integration. more
Do you need a way to organize and collaborate on your productions and projects? Check out the new Koral. Koral, a content collaboration company delivering Web 2.0 for Business, announced that it was selected to participate in DEMOfall 2006, the premier launch venue for new products, technologies, and companies. The event will be held Sept. 25 – 27 in San Diego, California. Koral has created an exciting product that will help us manage the overwhelming number of documents on which we collaborate daily more
MyMovieNetwork is a new service catered to the indie, amateur and student film makers. MyMovieNetwork is a community for film makers that provides tools to showcase their work around the world by posting their movies highlight their work portfolios and education, network and collaborate with fellow movie makers, discuss best practices, etc. All members and visitors can watch, critique and rate work quality while at the same time enjoy the entertainment provided to them for free. more
SanDisk ® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) introduced the V-Mate™ Video Memory Card - a
video memory card recorder that allows users to record
video from video inputs such as over-the-air television as well as cable,
satellite, DVD players, personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo and video
cassette recorders (VCRs) onto their flash memory cards. Consumers can then
take their memory card from the V-Mate and insert it into their mobile
phone, PDA, handheld game console like the Sony PSP™ (PlayStation®
Portable), video music player or notebook computer to play back their videos
on the go. more
ExpertVillage.com, the largest producer of how-to videos for the Internet, today announced it has budgeted $2 million to produce 75,000 new Internet friendly how-to videos over the next eighteen months, using freelance filmmakers/videographers. With the dramatic increase in availability of Internet video, consumers have become accustomed to getting information on the Internet in video form. ExpertVillage.com currently has over 1300 high-quality expert-based Internet videos available online, and plans to significantly expand its catalog of content available either direct to consumers via the Internet, download onto portable video players, or via corporate partners seeking to package content into broader service offerings. more Working with HDV by Chuck Gloman and Mark J. Pescatore. Written by two authors with loads of hands-on experience and rigorously tech edited, this book aims to demystify the technology and techniques of working with HDV so that people can get the most out of the format. This book is written at a level accessible to beginners and is heavily illustrated with stills, charts, and photos. The whole process, from project planning to distribution on DVD, is covered. more
Blip.tv, an Internet media company that hosts and distributes Web-based TV shows and videoblogs, today announced it was named the #1 online video sharing website by Light Reading, the world's leading online publication for the telecommunications industry. In a comparison of 45 video sharing sites, blip.tv led the industry with its simplicity, accommodating technology and media partnerships. more
DomainZoo.com is now offering customers a free email account, 5-page web site builder and quick blog account for any new, renewed or transferred domain purchase. more
It's a LCD TV, no, its a computer. Its a TV/PC combo unit and a DVR! Sony's new VAIO® LS1 TV/PC Combo combines the power of a PC with a quality LCD and stylish design. "Sleek, yet highly-functional, this new device compliments any room in the house where space is at a premium, but entertainment, performance and style is a must. Featuring a framed display with a transparent border for a stunning, floating effect, the LS1 model packs the essentials for powerful computing into a slim chassis discreetly hidden behind the back of a flat-panel 19-inch WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) LCD display."
Panasonic introduced the SDR-S150 SD camcorder that can record high quality video onto a 4GB SD card. Following in the footsteps of the popular SDR-S100, the SDR-S150 is compact, lightweight and features the high-quality 3CCD camera system and MPEG2 recording. The SDR-S150 improves on its predecessor by accepting the new 4GB SDHC Memory Card, a next-generation media that allows recording for up to 3 hours and 20 minutes. more
Aja Supports New Apple Mac Pro - AJA Io for Seamless Video Workflow Available Now for Intel-Based Mac Pro; Version 3 Software Update for KONA Video Cards Supporting Mac Pro more
Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced support for the new Apple® Mac Pro® systems based on Intel Xeon processors. All Blackmagic Design PCI Express based video capture cards are supported as a free update from the Blackmagic Design website. Supported products include DeckLink HD Extreme, DeckLink HD Pro 4:4:4 PCIe, DeckLink SP PCIe, DeckLink Extreme PCIe, and Multibridge Extreme and Multibridge Pro. Blackmagic Design customers will be able to purchase these new Mac Pro systems and use any PCI Express based DeckLink card or Multibridge editing system. more
Streamload, Inc. a leading provider of online digital media services, announced the availability of Streamload Web Services™, an offering comprised of Streamload Storage and Processing Services (SPS) and the Streamload Platform application programming interface (API.) Streamload’s two distinct Web Services options enable developers to build software applications, Internet-connected hardware, and online services with a reliable and infinitely scalable data storage infrastructure and no upfront costs. Through Streamload Web Services, developers and companies can now offer their customers around the world the capability to store their personal digital content, share their content without limits, collaborate, incorporate their own metadata (tags), and utilize their media on-demand from any platform or Internet-connected device. more
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Online Video Growth Will Be Driven by Portable Devices and Download-to-Burn - While 2006 has seen a rapid increase in consumers' use of online video, spurred by the breakout success of websites such as YouTube, the vast majority of video content delivered over the Internet is still held captive on the PC. ABI Research believes that the over the next five years new viewing options such as network-enabled video players and download-to-burn will add momentum and broaden the overall market by giving consumers additional choices in how they consume video content. more smarTVideo™ Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: SMVD.OB) and Content Asia Network (CAN) have executed and officially launched the very first Chinese language mobile video channel in the U.S. With three live feeds to the CAN channel, consumers of the smarTVideo™ mobile television network now have real-time access to premium Asian content including TV shows, movies, videos, sports, news, comedy, drama, and cultural programming. more
RealTechNetwork launched its Video Content Network that enables publishers of RealTechNetwork to place video content on their approved web sites through the RealTechNetwork Video Content Network. Publishers who do not currently have a video player to play streaming media can utilize RealTechNetwork's video player to show various forms of content to their visitors 24/7. more
Want to get more screen acreage for editing and image manipulation? You need a video card that supports multiple monitors. Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com) is now shipping the first two models in its new line of business video cards called BizView®. The BizView BV200 and BV300 video cards each support two digital LCD monitors and are half the size of regular video cards, fitting into both standard and low profile cases. Both models have low-heat output and dual DVI and TV-Out support. The BV200 features 128 MB DDR memory for PCI connection. The BV300 features 256MB GDDR2 memory for PCI Express connection as well as HDTV support. more
FoodNetwork.com is now serving up helpings of original broadband. Hosted by critically acclaimed twenty-something celebrity chef and author Dave Lieberman, "Dave Does" chronicles all the latest culinary trends with stops in New York City, Boston, Portland and Philadelphia. The first three short webisodes will spotlight donuts, school food and coffee. more
MTV Networks (MTVN), a division of Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Atom Entertainment, Inc., a portfolio of four leading online destinations for casual games, short films and video, for $200 million. Acquiring Atom Entertainment advances the company's multiplatform strategy of building an engaging universe of music, gaming, entertainment, news and interactivity for targeted audiences. more
"AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple, major Broadcast TV networks, Pay-TV
services and local TV stations are all working on ways to blend their
video assets with personalized TV services," says Gerry Kaufhold,
In-Stat analyst. "The future of television is slowly being defined
online, where the big Internet portals are finding ways to blend
professional video with their high-touch services that follow consumers
from screen to screen during the course of a typical day."
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Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) today announced the upcoming release of the world’s first single-sided 8cm DVD-R Dual Layer (DL) disc for camcorders. The new single-sided 8cm DVD-R Dual Layer discs have a single-sided recording capacity of up to 2.6 gigabytes (GB), which is 1.8 times the recording capacity of conventional single-sided 8cm DVD-R single layer blank media. The new discs allow up to 55 minutes of continuous recording using the standard mode on DVD camcorders. more
Canon U.S.A. today has announced two new camcorders. The Canon HV10 HD
camcorder is the worlds smallest and lightest HDV camcorder, while the
DC22 DVD camcorder has the ability to record to dual layer DVD's for
nearly double the recording time.
Blip.tv and CNN
today announced that they are giving the power of broadcasting to
ordinary citizens everywhere.
Canon just announced two new 3 chip HD camcorders for high end enthusiasts and professionals. Building on the image quality of the award winning XL H1 model, the XH A1 and XH G1 HD camcorders offer a Genuine Canon 20x HD zoom lens, Super Range Optical Image Stabilization, 60i, 24F, 30F frame rates and total image control. The XH A1 model will be available in late October for an estimated selling price of $3,999*, while the XH G1 model adds HD-SDI output with embedded audio and timecode; Genlock synchronization and Timecode In/Out and will be available in mid-November for an estimated selling price of $6,999*. more
Reallusion announces new upgrade of CrazyTalk - CrazyTalk™ 4.5 adds more animated content and facial expression presets for virtual actors, animation layers for adding graphics and special effects with transitions. Custom graphics can be attached to the virtual actor's face and tracked along with the facial animation for easy overlays of disguises, masks, glasses, and all facial props. more
Fun Little Movies, (FLM) announces the
first broadcast television commercial promoting an original,
made-for-mobile series. It is now airing on major TV networks including
UPN, Fox, BET and ABC. The commercials promote the new mobile series
“The Pool,” which will debut exclusively on FLM’s global mobile comedy
channels on August 9. Toyota Motors North America is the sponsor of “The
Pool,” the first non-derivative mobile series sponsored by a major
brand. more
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define "American?" How would your family and friends? Is there something
you want to say to people all over the world about your vision for
Sony just announced the their new HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1 Handycam® camcorders - the first consumer camcorders to record in full 1080i HD resolution and Dolby® Digital 5.1 surround sound, offering a choice in recording media. While the HDR-UX1 model records directly to readily-available, three-inch DVD discs for effortless playback and sharing, the HDR-SR1 camcorder’s built-in 30GB hard drive facilitates mass video storage as well as in-camcorder and PC editing. more Adrenaline Entertainment, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ADNL), which produces Adrenaline Nation TV, the leading channel for cutting edge independent music TV, innovative independent and short films and adrenaline sports for the highly coveted 18-49 demographic, today announced that it has teamed with retired Sheriff Gerald Hege to launch a new reality show for finding and fixing up classic cars: “Sheriff Hege’s What’s in the Garage?” The ANTV channel currently reaches 28 million homes across the U.S. more Grass Valley is offering a 30-day free trial of their EDIUS Pro version 4 Nonlinear Editing Software - To kick off the availability of EDIUS Pro version 4, the Grass Valley(tm) business within Thomson today announced a free 30-day trial of this latest version of the realtime, multiformat video editing software. The EDIUS Pro version 4 30-day trial will give editors a chance to try new features such as multicam support, nested sequence editing, improved trimming tools, alpha-channel support in the HQ codec, and keyframe support for color correction. These new capabilities boost EDIUS Pro's reputation as a highly flexible craft editing solution that delivers maximum productivity to video professionals. more
Fabrik - its a new solution for online storage of video, stills, video and other files more
Adobe announced Lightroom beta for Windows. Now available for both the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Adobe Lightroom beta is a new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop and showcase large volumes of digital images. Cross-platform support gives Adobe the unique opportunity to incorporate feedback from the entire photographic community, ensuring that everyone can participate in the beta process more
JVC's new GY-HD110U will be available by the end of July 2006. With the same
design as the GY-HD100U, the GY-HD110U implements a number of additional
features requested by our growing circle of producers and cinematographers and
now added to the multiple-award winning GY-HD100U.
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Yahoo! launched a
site featuring short videos created by students from renowned film schools to
humorously tell the world that Yahoo! is changing. In addition, Yahoo! is
inviting all users to submit original videos through Yahoo! Video (video.yahoo.com)
with their own creative take on the theme.
Want to store a lot of video? SanDisk ® Corporation
(NASDAQ: SNDK) today introduced a 4-gigabyte (GB)1 SD High Capacity (SDHC
™ ) card. The new cards, which support capacities of 4GB and higher, are rated
Class 2 for speed and performance and can store more than 2,000 high-resolution
pictures, more than 1,000 digital songs or up to 8 hours of MPEG 4 video.
The 2006 Indie Gathering Film Festival and Convention has awarded an Honorable Mention laurel to the short film, Flash McCool: Something’s Fishy Here. The low budget short was presented by E & E Entertainment, Directed by Exavier Wardlaw, shot and cut by Eckloff Wardlaw and written and produced by Norman Johnson. more
ViewCast Corporation's Niagara GoStream, a single-channel, portable
streaming media encoder, is now shipping to customers. GoStream creates and
presents video and audio over the Internet with a simple, easy-to-use
operator interface, and is designed both for streaming experts and
beginners. It is portable and can quickly transfer from indoor environments
to remote locations. GoStream is targeted to organizations looking for a
low-cost solution to meet their streaming video needs.
more
New Book - The Battle of Las Vegas - Reveals the Inside Story of the Law's Battle to Remove the Influence and Corruption of Organized Crime from Sin City's Streets and Casinos more
Peachpit today announced Edit Well, the PDF rich media newsletter about Final Cut® Studio, featuring audio interviews, video tutorials, and industry expert articles and columns. Developed in collaboration with Apple-Certified Trainer Larry Jordan, Edit Well offers an authoritative look inside Final Cut Studio, Apple’s all-in-one audio- and video-editing suite which includes Final Cut Pro® 5, Motion 2, Soundtrack® Pro, DVD Studio Pro® 4, and Compressor. more
1394 vs USB - 1394 is being strongly challenged by USB in PC and peripherals markets, but there are signs of life in consumer electronics (CE), reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). Digital televisions, cable set top boxes, and DVD recorders are all driving 1394a growth in the CE segment, the high-tech market research firm says. In addition, the High-Definition Audio Video Networking Alliance (HANA) has endorsed 1394 as a transmission medium for high-definition content, a development that may spur adoption of 1394 in home video networks. more
Streamload announced Streamload MediaMax now offers a full suite of media sharing and remote access applications that include free file backup and file synchronization in one online service. Users can store, organize, access, and share their entire digital media collection from one integrated online service. Version 1.5 integrates the management and sharing of online and offline media, by incorporating new features, a simplified user interface, and integrating free downloadable client software, called Streamload MediaMax XL, into the Streamload MediaMax service. Streamload MediaMax XL application’s automatic backup and sync enables users to always have their files when and where they need them without the hassle of manual uploads. Users of the service can also invite friends and family to sync folders on their computers. Without any additional effort beyond putting the files on their own computers, users can automatically share photos and personal video instantaneously with others who are subscribed to their synchronized folders. more
CDLHN is encouraging high school seniors and college-aged teens to create their own 30 second PSA on meningococcal disease prevention. This is a great opportunity for teens to express their creativity while doing something for the community. Selected PSAs will be featured at www.gotmyshot.org and www.cdlhn.com and on an upcoming DVD in August. more
FrameFree Technologies, developers of a family of products that provide easy and efficient authoring and compression of motion imagery, today announced the launch of FrameFree Studio, the first digital imaging software that allows for the creation of compelling movies from still photographs without a steep learning curve or compromising quality at any bandwidth. more
Optibase, Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of
advanced digital video solutions, today announced that it will
demonstrate its IPTV and digital video solutions at Broadcast Asia
2006, June 20-23, 2006 in Singapore. The company will showcase
Optibase’s flexible model design providing customers with
future-proof video solutions to meet the evolving requirements of
Telcos and service providers.
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TMPG, Inc. (www.tmpg-inc.com), has released its advanced, high-quality video encoding software: TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress. The new version is twice as powerful than previous versions and includes a host of new functions and advancements. TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress gives video aficionados the power to take virtually any video file and encode it to any number of today's most popular file formats. more
muvee has teamed with recording artist, Jason Mraz, to launch an online muvee-making contest that gives fans the chance to create muvees that weave their own footage into the artist's original 'Geek In The Pink' music video. This is pretty cool. Jason Mraz fans can now enter the 'Geek and Me' muvee contest at www.jasonmraz.com/multimedia. Fans simply need to upload their own video and/or pictures, up to maximum combined file size of 20MB. On the back-end, the muveeOnline web service will then automatically blend and synchronize the fan's footage with footage from Jason Mraz's music video to create a unique finished production. The user is then sent an email with a link to play and watch their 'Geek and Me' muvee. They can also opt to have their muvee posted on the 'Geek and Me' muvee gallery for voting, or make more muvees. more
It's JerryTime! (http://www.itsjerrytime.com), the first podcast ever nominated for an Emmy Award, announces the debut of its latest episode 7, called "The Brute". more
The ‘What The Hell Did I Just Watch?’ festival is looking for films and videos. The festival concentrates on showing the funniest produced comedy with a blind eye to production value, star power, or marketability. We simply want the funniest thing out there. more
ClipShack™, the online video-sharing community hosted by Reality Digital, launched the site out of beta today with a line up of new interactive features around webcam capture and sharing. The ClipShack Interactive feature allows users to easily capture and send or share webcam video messages, as well as recording webcam reviews for top movies or books, or entering webcam contests. more
Logipole Konverter 3.51 supports over 1230 multimedia formats and offers viewing/editing/conversion options for all major audio, video, image and text formats. Konvertor 3.51 comes jam-packed with features like an overstuffed sandwich - instantaneous conversion from one format to another, screen capturing options, easy file labeling, applying personal notes, special effects and filters to images (blur, resize, charcoal, shear, rotate, contrast and so on), PDF creation and tons of other handy perks. more
Internet Video Magazine (www.internetvideomag.com) today announced the launch of the new “Why Is My Film Cool” feature that is designed to help aspiring video and filmmakers get their creative efforts seen and noticed. With dozens of sites hosting videos for free, and hundreds of thousands of video clips being uploaded every day from film makers worldwide, how can a good video or film stand out? more
JVC Professional Products Company announced new, more flexible and more economical D-ILA projector systems, along with a price restructuring of all of its popular front projection models. Three new systems are being introduced, in partnership with Anchor Bay Technologies, developer of the DVDO high performance video processor. JVC continues to offer its 1080p models with a state-of-the-art processor co-developed in conjunction with Faroudja. This brings to 10, the total D-ILA front projector packages offered by the company, priced from $6,995 to $21,995. more
NRMC Report - The State of IPTV 2006: The Advent of Personalized Programming,” the new NMRC report finds: “With the expansion of broadband access and the growth of computing and video production equipment, industry analysts believe IPTV is realizing its potential as a viable programming platform that can compete with cable, satellite and other traditional video mediums more
MAGIX's new Movies2go lets you easily transfer videos and slideshows to all your mobile devices, including portable video players (such as PlayStation Portables PSP and iPods), cell phones, PDAs, and laptops, to experience and show off your videos to friends wherever you go. more
Want to put video on your iPOD or other portable digital or media device? “VideoSync software makes it easy for users of portable digital devices to take and view their favorite videos wherever they go,” says Kimi Matsuki, TMPG CEO. “Users now can transfer videos from their PC using just this one program and a simple mouse click. With VideoSync, there is no longer any need to buy separate software titles for each mobile device a person uses.” more
TV One has done it again, created user-friendly seamless switchers and scalers that incorporate the award-winning CORIO2 technology. The new C2-1000 series has five new pieces that are feature laden and flexible giving the customer exactly what they need with a price anyone can afford. The five new units range from $1,295 to $2,295 and consist of two Down Converters, two Up Converters and a Universal Scaler. more
iReadNet launches author video blog using webcams, P2P file sharing, and
streaming media to create a quick, easy and inexpensive word-of-mouth
platform for book authors - "Nothing sells a book like an author reading,"
says Kurt Aldag, president and founder of iReadNet
(www.ireadnet.com),
announcing the launch of a video blog for authors called AuthorCams (www.authorcams.tv).
"AuthorCams offers writers the opportunity to crank up their personal buzz
machines with nothing more than a webcam and an Internet connection."
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Always dreamed of starring in your own TV spot and getting the chance to talk about the issues that are important to you? Would the possibilities of adding video content to your products help you to generate more sales and more exposure for your business? Then now is the time to join the Internet Television Revolution and sign up for MomMeTV http://www.mommetv.com/ more
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If you write for broadcast, media or for the movies, you will be interested to know that Final Draft has released updates to its two leading script writing products, Final Draft and Final Draft AV. more
Panasonic and Sony Corporation announced specifications for "AVCHD", a brand new high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format the two companies jointly established. The AVCHD format allows for recording and playback high-resolution, digital HD images using 8cm DVD media. more
Put the You in YouTube - Internet Video Magazine Announces the How to Guide to Posting Your Videos and Movies Online - It's easy to create and post your video online at YouTube, GoogleVideo and others Internet Video Magazine (www.internetvideomag.com) announced the launch of new Make a Net Video and Free Video Tools guides which make it easy for anyone to create and upload their own personal videos, movies and video blogs to free online video hosting services like YouTube, OneTrueMedia, MySpace, ViralFlix, GoogleVideo and StreamLoad. more
JVC Company of America announced the upcoming availability of a new 3CCD hard drive camcorder with an internal 30GB (gigabyte) hard disk drive. The new JVC Everio G Series GZ-MG505
Aquafadas announces the release of iDive 1.7
, an update of its award-winning digital video catalog for Mac OSX.
At NAB, JVC Professional introduced two new camcorders -- The high definition GY-HD200U |
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