You may be hearing a lot about expensive 3-D televisions. However, consumers are far more interested in buying TVs with built-in Internet capabilities, according to a report today from tech researcher iSuppli. “Despite aggressive promotions from the industry and intense consumer interest generated by the blockbuster ‘Avatar’ and other titles, the 3-D TV market in [...]

TV meets web. Web meets TV. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV. via Google TV.

A team of USC Law students from the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic has helped secure an exemption that will allow documentary filmmakers to use material contained on DVDs and other sources that were previously off limits. The exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was announced today by the United States Copyright [...]

Here is a 7 part series in which Dave Helmly from Adobe walks you through a complete 3D Stereo workflow with Premiere Pro CS5. This is a start to finish workflow and a must see for anyone getting started with 3D Stereo video shooting and editing or just interested in the technology and the whole [...]

A Sony exec revealed that YouTube would be part of Sony’s upcoming 3D offering. Mick Hocking, a studio exec at Sony, last week was drumming up support for Sony PlayStation’s future capability to game in 3D when he let loose this little tidbit: YouTube will be supporting 3D content over the next 12 months as [...]

Mobile Video On Steep Growth Curve Revenue from video telephony, video messaging, and similar services is projected to grow from $121 million in 2010 to $2 billion in 2013, says ABI Research. By Esther Shein, InformationWeek Mobile video services revenue from video telephony, video messaging, video sharing, video on demand, VoD downloads, and other video services [...]

Essential kit for your Canon T2i/550D if you’re on a budget: Part 2: Batteries, Memory Cards & Bags Part 3: Depth of Field, Aperture & ND filters After posting my early review of the new Canon EOS T2i / 550D and the test short “FEBRUARY“ and the overwhelming response (50.000 views of the clip so [...]

* By: Heather Gordon Since 2005, YouTube has been all about user-generated content. But competing in a Web environment where premium video sites like Hulu attract valuable hits has made YouTube’s owner, Google, think more about how to up the ante on content creation. Their newest idea? Reward talented YouTube partners with cold, hard cash. [...]

Adobe is leading the pack when it comes to system performance, and offers a much-improved NLE. By Oliver Peters Adobe is shipping its much-anticipated Creative Suite 5. The video applications are available either as single products or bundled in the Master Collection or Production Premium suite. Most video editors will be interested in the latter, [...]

With Hulu Plus and better streaming content from Netflix, it may finally be time to cut the TV umbilical by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Nearly a year ago, I offered tips for cutting the cable bill. In that article, I extolled the virtues of free TV ala Hulu; TV network sites; such media center applications as [...]

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MOSCOW: The Graphics and Media Lab at Moscow State University recently released the results of its comparison of Google’s WebM VP8 codec with MPEG-4/H.264. VP8 is a royalty-free, open-source codec recently released by Google for compressing online video. H.264 encoders are fee-based. The release of VP8 sparked an ongoing debate about its quality compared to [...]

Both new models employ an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec – Canon XF Codec – for capturing and recording native 1920 x 1080 video onto affordable, universally available Compact Flash (CF) cards. Uniting video, audio and metadata into a single file, the Canon XF305 and XF300 use an MXF (Material eXchange Format) File Wrapper, a widely [...]

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Yep, when you see the revolutionary breakthroughs we’ve made in web video publishing, I think you’ll agree it merits a full number upgrade. We have completely redesigned and rebuilt the Publish Room so that you can: publish simple Quicktime embedded movies or whole HTML pages publish Quicktime embedded movies with default poster frame or whole [...]