March 2007 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews
From VON Magazine - Whether broadcast
video is offered as a component of a multimedia
community site, whether it is transported over IP to
settop boxes, niche audiences seeking alternatives to
cable TV, there are interesting models for making
‘traditional’ TV shows work in an IP world. Whether
consumers are looking to publish and edit personal video
for family and friends with ease, or whether they seek a
more-than-YouTube search and viewing experience, there
are new and exciting ways to monetize video content in
the self-published world.
Big Media rally against YouTube - from Broadband TV News
Today
Several Big Media companies are joining together to fight
YouTube, the video-sharing service now owned by Google.
Murdoch’s News Corp. and NBC Universal said they will create
an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, plus
clips that users can modify and share with friends.
If you are a video or film pro, you
should check out this short article about "Drawn By Pain".
This is the inside story of how writer/director Jesse Cowell
brought his 12 part Net miniseries to the internet video
screen. Good stuff.
Read the
article and then watch the video.
Check out Doug Dixon's review
of the annual DigitalLife show (www.digitallife.com).
DigitalLife is held in the Javits Center like other trade
shows, but unlike general IT conferences like PC Expo that
have faded in New York, DigitalLife is unabashedly a
consumer show, "dedicated to educating consumers on what the
digital lifestyle means in every aspect of life - at work,
home and play. And, how the convergence of affordable,
accessible technologies is enriching and empowering people's
lives."
more
If you want to
make money making Internet Video - you got to read this
article at
LightReading.
In addition to analyzing the market and opportunities, they
have a great up to date chart showing where the best
opportunities are for converting your video chops into cold
hard cash. If you want to go straight to the gold,
here is the chart
Metacafe Teams With Bochco For Video Confessions
Channel
by Gavin O'Malley
Online video startup Metacafe is attempting to bring a
little gravitas to the world of consumer-generated media
with a video confessions channel created by Hollywood
producer Steven Bochco. -
Read the whole story from Online Media Daily..
Gen Art
and Planet Green, a partnership between Starbucks and
Global Green USA, are bringing more opportunities for
aspiring filmmakers by debuting Gen Art’s Online Film
Festival.
Film submissions will be accepted
until March 21, 2007. From March 29th to April 13th,
the seven selected shorts will be available for viewing
and voting on
www.genartfestival.com/online
and through an interactive avatar based environment on
planetgreengame.com. Through online voting, one of the
seven filmmakers will win $2500 plus a prize package
and a premiere screening at the 12th annual Gen Art Film
Festival in New York City.
more
Want
to see your video spoof featured at the 2007 MTV Movie
Awards TV Show? This year, fans will be given the chance
to realize their dreams of standing on stage at the "2007
MTV Movie Awards" to accept the legendary golden bucket of
popcorn in front of Hollywood’s movers and shakers. Through "MTV
Movie Awards on Yahoo," aspiring filmmakers will be offered
the platform to showcase their twisted genius and
story-telling talent. The interactive site, launching April
23, will allow them to submit their own original movie
shorts parodying films from the past year for consideration
in the first ever “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” User Generated
Category. The undiscovered talent will be revealed to the
world during MTV’s live June 3 broadcast from the Gibson
Theater in
Universal City, Calif.
more
Ya got a spare
billion to lend google?
Viacom in $1 bln copyright
suit vs Google, YouTube
- Media conglomerate Viacom Inc. sued Google Inc. and its
Internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $1 billion
on Tuesday in the biggest challenge yet to the Web search
leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.
Want to see some great videos
online?
TriggerStreet 3 Online Short Film Festival
The
10 finalists in the
1st TriggerStreet.com On-Line Short Film
Festival of the Third Season have
been chosen, and Trigger Academy voting
is underway. The Short Film Festival
Season works as follows: Each Season is
made up of three separate Film Festivals
-- the ratings given by Intermediate and
Advanced Members to the 50 Official
Selection films during each festival
will determine the Top Ten Finalists.
Those ten films will then go before the
Trigger Academy to determine which four
are nominated to continue on to the end
of season competition. The Nominees from
each festival will be viewed by our
panel of Judges, who will pick the
Overall Winner of the Season and the
recipient of the Budweiser Filmmaker
Discovery Award.
Cell
phone video and camcorders? Third Screen or Fourth Screen? Who
cares? Lets make Internet movies!!!
Is cell
phone video the future of Video over the Net? Killer
applications for cell phones
CNN
launches their MobileTV service - now you can watch
CNN
International Live
over almost any mobile device.
press release
You can never
have enough screen acreage when you want to edit video or
even just play games.
Matrox Graphics Inc just announced the
TripleHead2Go
Digital Edition, the latest addition to the
Matrox line of Graphics eXpansion Modules (GXM) featuring
digital output support for a stretched desktop of up to
3840x1024 (triple 1280 x 1024) across three screens. The
all-encompassing TripleHead2Go
Digital Edition offers a truly digital-to-digital data path
by connecting to the dual-link DVI output of a compatible
notebook, desktop or workstation to three digital
monitors—optimizing the connection between your system,
graphics card and panel.
more
Here are a couple very cool
video webcasts from 3GSM TV regarding the future of mobile
video
Movies on Mobiles - From
Sundance to Bollywood; the trend towards creating original
short movies for mobile phones.
View now
 The
Prickly Problem of Adult Content - The industry might not
like to talk about it, but adult content is a rare form of
mobile data: one that users are actually willing to pay for.
View now
Looking
for an affordable and easy to master digital editing program
that can almost do everything? Check out the latest
Roxio Easy Media Creator suite, version 9. EMC 9 handles
all different types of digital media (video, audio, photos,
data) through the end-to-end workflow, from capture to
editing to sharing. The EMC suite provides a nicely
integrated collection with both strong individual tools, and
a variety of utilities for doing simple things quickly and
efficiently.
more
YouTube to give politicians video boost
Politicians have not cherished most of their YouTube
moments, those snippets of candid camera video posted on the
popular Internet site. Now comes a friendlier YouTube
politics.
The new YouTube site will
allow candidates to feature their own video "channels" in
one location. There is no cost to appearing on the site. The
video is the same as what the candidates have on their own
sites, though it might be packaged differently.
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