June 2007 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews Do you like Hilary Duff? The actress? The Singer? Well my tween-age girls thought she was great and made me add a Hilary Duff video page. Click here if you dare..... And for those who want to know more about the other party-crazy gals - here are pages dedicated to Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan (with Lindsay Lohan crash videos)
RealNetworks® unveiled their new RealPlayer®, the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites. The new RealPlayer makes it easy for consumers to watch videos whenever and wherever they want, burn them to DVD and CD, and share video links with friends. Most major formats are supported, including Real, Windows Media, Flash, and Quicktime. The new RealPlayer will be available for free beginning next month at RealPlayer.com. more
Are you a digital photographer who wants to improve your skills and make much better looking pictures and digital images? Checkout this review of two new books from Sybex - Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers and Photoshop CS3 Workflow. These are great. The Workflow book is especially useful if you do a lot of image editing and have always wondered which corrections, edits and fix-ups should I do first? In which order makes the most sense? Read the Review
IN-STAT predicts 33 million IPTV viewers in Asia by 2012 - SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 29, 2007 Competition between IPTV and cable/satellite TV is heating up in Asia, with IPTV poised to gain significant market share over the next several years, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). With the help of IPTV, incumbent telcos have the opportunity to fundamentally change their broadband customers' video service experience, from traditional video clip streaming to downloading and just plain watching TV. more
Baby Name Optimization - by David Berkowitz, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 WANT PROOF that you can optimize anything? What about devising a strategy to optimize search results around the name of your unborn offspring? more
The new Ulead VideoStudio 11 still focuses on easy consumer editing but now adds more automated assists for creating quick movies and snazzy-looking movie-style opening sequences VideoStudio is also bulked up with the latest technologies, especially for editing high-definition formats including AVCHD, with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, authoring to HD DVD discs, and exporting to portable devices like the Apple iPod and Sony PSP with MPEG-4 and H.264 format support. more
Internet-based TV to have 60M users by 2011 - According to a report from Parks Associates, by the end of 2011 almost 60 million people will be using the Internet to watch television. Parks says that Tier 1 telephone companies "will reach solid numbers by the end of the forecast period," but does not provide specifics. A survey from Accenture provides some interesting metrics, however: Of 350 telecom executives, sixty percent said that significant revenues from IPTV are likely within three years. Fifty-two percent said they were not confident in IPTV's ability to generate "significant" revenues within 12 months. For more on these studies:
- see this IT Business Edge write-up
Have you got your Quik Pod Pro yet?- This seems like an obvious invention but it is quite brilliant. For under $30! A long telescoping pole with a camera screw on the end. Dooh. Why didn't I think of that? It lets you elevate your digital camera or small camcorder high above the crowd to get shots of the band at a concert. It lets you carry the camera down low to get dramatic shots from ground or shoe level. read the review
Toddler Wrecks Intricate Artwork - Monks Spent Days Making It. Kid gets caught on video Apple Irked by Ann Summers iGasm Ad - A British sex toy shop's ad campaign for a vibrating iPod peripheral has drawn the attention of Apple Inc., and more importantly, the disapproval of its lawyers. Anne  Summers, an English retailer of lingerie and sex toys, recently began marketing the iGasm, an egg-shaped device which plugs into the Apple iPod and vibrates at different speeds depending on the volume of the music. The $60 device comes with "two silicone ticklers," as well as a splitter that allows the user to plug in earphones and listen to music at the same time. When are we going to see this on YouTube?
If you want to capture video from YouTube - you should check out DVDVideoSoft.com and Vixy.net. DVDVideoSoft. com - free program for downloading and & converting YouTube videos (*.flv) to iPod, PSP & mobile phones MP4 video Vixy.net in as a FREE online service that allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder. When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file. Also read this article - 2 Cool Tools For Online Video
Unless you live under a rock, you know by now that online video represents the hottest thing to hit the Internet since the invention of the modem.
Streaming and Digital Media by Dan Rayburn is an outstanding book for those who not only want to understand how the technology works, but want to know how THEY CAN MAKE MONEY with Internet video and streaming TV. Discover how new video distribution channels & devices are affecting your content business - Learn what you should pay for online video services and what you should expect in return - Read real-world ROI case studies of what has worked and what hasn't across b2b and b2c verticals more
Here's the link to see the best shorts films created by the On The Lot contestants - these include the videos that aired during episode 2 as well as those that were created but not broadcast. Remember, these were all written, shot and edited within a 24 hour timespan - with a three person production crew who had never met before an din some case, who didn't like each other and did not get along at all. Despite that, most of these look pretty darn good. This one is great! Time Out - by contestant team #3 - Zach Lipovsky, Sam Friedlander, Adam Stein FOX TV’s On The Lot – the first reality show that matters – at least for film and video makers?Aspiring filmmakers from around the world have the chance to earn a $1-million development deal at DreamWorks. more
Sanyo Waterproof Camera Loves to Get Wet PC Magazine - Tue May 22, 4:00 AM ET Sanyo's new Xacti E1 camera/camcorder hybrid shoots movies and stills at depths of up to five feet. MORE
CBS buys Web site specializing in finance, humor Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp. on Tuesday said its digital division would buy Wallstrip, a Web site that produces a daily show and blogs about financial news, for an undisclosed amount.
CNN buys stake in Internet Broadcasting AP MINNEAPOLIS - Internet Broadcasting Systems Inc., which publishes Web sites for television news stations, said on Tuesday that CNN is buying a minority stake in the company and that the two will begin swapping online news.
YOU TUBE POTATO VIDEO CONTEST - Three Grand Prizes of $1,000 CASH Will Be Awarded Dawn Wells, Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island shares her potato Video To enter, contestants must be willing to have two minutes of fun with an Idaho Potato (on camera-of course) and to share their entry with the world via YouTube. Three Grand Prize winners will be awarded with $1,000 CASH each! A gourmet cook herself, Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, jumped at the chance to demonstrate her unique way of peeling Idaho Potatoes. To see her video, visit the contest website, www.iTuber.org.more
What is the next recording and capture technology for consumer electronics, video and digital still imaging? According to this Maravedis report it just might be wireless - WiMAX technology linking your portable device to the net and to your personal multimedia server. Check it out. Maravedis - WiMAX for Consumer Electronics
Google's Universal Search: Where Video and SEO Meet
by Tameka Kee
The Internet giant's new search model will aggregate information from across all its content sources--videos, images, news, maps, books and Web sites--into a single set of relevant results. - Read the whole story...
Roxio is Introducing NEW DVDit Pro HD. Studio-Caliber DVD and Blu-ray Disc Authoring for Video Professionals  - Read the Review - You can edit and burn Blu-Ray Projects
SONY UNVEILS THE WORLD’S SMALLEST AVCHD HIGH-DEFINITION CAMCORDER - Coming in June - Three New Camcorders Record Full HD 1080 Video on Memory Stick Media, Hard Disk Drives Sony is bolstering its lead in the high-definition camcorder arena with the introduction of three new AVCHD™ technology-based models. Put your orders in now... more info
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