August 2007 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews
Another YouTube Clone
bites the dust - so much for User Generated
Video
- what do people really want to see?
Quality video - produced by moviemakers
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The Internet video site ManiaTV is dropping
User Created Content.
"We decided that
user-generated content is passé, and not a
part of what we want to do in the future. We
tried it, we didn't think it worked and
we're getting rid of it," said Richard Ayoub,
ManiaTV's vice president of programming and
development.
It is true reality; the content is the real
lives of our heroes;
fire fighters.
Check out Tule Fog Productions'
reality series
“The Battalion”. The Battalion
profiles the daily lives of real
firefighters and rescue workers. It is
a great looking website with a series of
truly wonderfully produced and very engaging
video segments.
“Some of
these stories will break your heart,” says
executive producer David Furtado. “Others
will make you laugh out loud. That’s the
thing about their jobs: Firefighters have to
turn that emotional corner without losing
control.”
Ziddio -
TEN DAY CONTEST
TAKE 2 -
Take that big TV show idea off the back burner and
slap your last name on the back of a studio chair!
Ends October 4, 2007
Shoot a scene,
trailer or promo that best presents your TV
show idea. You just may see your show become
a reality. At the end of the
contest, all submissions will be judged
by Ziddio's panel and one winner will
get a shot at making it big as a real
Hollywood TV producer. You'll be flown out
to Tinsletown for 10-days and showered with
$50,000 in production money to make your big
idea a reality. You'll bump elbows with
Hollywood experts and executives from
Endemol USA who will help you shoot a real
pilot presentation in 10 days. Plus, YOU
could also be the star of your own
six-episode reality series, Ten Day Take 2,
which will chronicle all of your production
adventures.
Murdoch's NDS Buys
Streaming Video Company
by Gavin O'Malley
NDS Group PLC, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News
Corp., has made a small but potentially significant
acquisition--just over $11 million in cash--of
CastUp Inc., an Israeli-based streaming video
provider. -
Read the whole story...
Got
an Apple iPhone and need to know how to use it?
Thinking of getting an iPhone and want to know all
about it before you shell of $500 or more?
iPhone: The Missing Manual
(O'Reilly, $19.99)--the very
first book about Apple's new
cellphone to hit the streets.
Pogue's witty, authoritative,
full-color manual truly unlocks
the iPhone's potential.
Between the covers of
iPhone: The Missing Manual
readers will find an
entertaining, generously
illustrated guide detailing how
to use iPhone, along with tips,
shortcuts, and workarounds.
more
The
official Star Wars Fan
Movie Challenge —
the only place where fan movies have access to
George Lucas and Spike TV. Not only did Chad
Vader take home the coveted George Lucas Selects
Award at the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge — it
also got
some air time on Spike TV.
There's a special theme for the Challenge's next
phase. They are looking for films about the
Women of Star Wars.
From Princess Leia to Pink
Five, the Star Wars Universe is packed with
kick-butt women. Make a fan movie featuring your
favorite Star Wars heroine — or create your own.
Get More Info
AT&T moves from carrier to censor
If ever there was a wake-up call the US got
it yesterday when it was revealed that during a live webcast
of a live gig held last weekend, the operator AT&T
unilaterally took it upon itself the right to censor the
lyrics of a song by the rock band Pearl Jam.
Click here for full story
Prototype Internet device fails
regulator's test
The government gave a failing grade to a prototype
device that Microsoft, Google, Dell and other technology
companies said would beam high-speed Internet service over
unused television airwaves, an Associated Press report said.
More
Veoh Draws First Blood In
Legal Spat With UMG
- from Online Media Daily
Associated Press
Veoh Networks is looking to neutralize the threat of a
copyright infringement suit from Universal Music Group by
preemptively suing the music giant. The online video sharing
site declares that it has no liability to UMG, even if its
users illegally upload videos to the Veoh site containing
UMG music. Veoh, like Google in its suit against Viacom,
claims protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act. It also takes down copyrighted material when asked and
does not outwardly encourage illegal activity.
But why sue? Because UMG notified the site in July it was
considering legal action against Veoh for "massively
infringing" its copyrights. Once upon a time, UMG also
threatened to sue Google's video site YouTube, but the two
parties eventually agreed to a partnership instead.
In a statement, the company tried to pass off that deal as a
success (which is doubtful), saying that Veoh is "about
trying to build a business on the backs of our artists and
songwriters without fairly compensating them for the use of
their works." Of course, for most content owners, YouTube is
guilty of the same thing. -
Read the whole story...
Bikers Hog Web As Harley
Video Ads Go Live From Sturgis
by Les Luchter
Carmichael Lynch created a Harley-Davidson campaign
that's delivering 10 hours of live video daily from
the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the Black Hills of
South Dakota via banner ads and a Google Gadget. The
campaign caused Google to expand its "unlimited
bandwidth," as users spent more than 13 minutes on
average watching the live video through the widget.
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Read the whole story...
FesTV - Production
Stories from the Street -
Shooting,
Storing and Cutting Video from the Los
Angeles Film Festival -
more
How portable storage
helped save the day....Event:
Los Angeles Film Festival Product: Focus
Enhancements FS-4 Portable DTE Recorder
Delta
and Gen Art are gearing up for the second
annual "Delta's Fly-In Movies" national
short film competition.
The contest
is open to all North American filmmakers,
and submissions will be accepted through
September 12. Five finalists will be
selected, and the winner will be announced
at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. This is
a unique opportunity for artists to showcase
their short films, and win cash, travel, and
trip to the Sundance Film Festival. What is
unique to this year's competition is that
ALL five finalists will get to travel to
Sundance.
more
Nestle
"Shake It Up" Video Contest
Submit a video that
shows how you, in your own special way, shake your
NESTLÉ® NESQUIK® and you could WIN! Just grab a
bottle, or two or three, and a camera. One Grand
Prize Winner wins $10,000 (and if that wasn't
enough), their video will be shown in a cinema near
their hometown AND their video will be shown on ABC
SuperSign video billboard in Times Square, New York.
Nine other finalists will win a NESQUIK goodie bag
with free product coupons worth $100.
more info
IDAHO
POTATO COMMISSION ROLLS OUT THE BURLAP
CARPET TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF ITS
FIRST iTUBER VIDEO CONTEST -
Three $1000 Cash Prizes
Awarded. Winning Videos
Debut @ Celebrity-Studded
SpudFest,
Idaho’s Only Family Film and
Television Festival -
From
coast to coast, it’s evident
that folks all across the
country love their Idaho
Spuds. Paul Searle from
McMinnville, OR, John Hill
from Orlando, FL, and Jay
Alan Meier from Vancouver,
WA are the Grand Prize
winners in the first annual
iTuber Video Contest
sponsored by the Idaho
Potato Commission. Each
winner will receive $1000.
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Canon joins
the Hard drive HD camcorder
party and rolls out their first HD
hard drive camcorder. the High
Definition HG10 Camcorder. Now
consumers can shoot, store, and
share up to 15 hours of HD footage.
Available in October, the Canon HG10
HD Camcorder will have an estimated
selling price of $1299.
more
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The Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge is ongoing, so
you can submit a fan movie at any time.