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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