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Biz Break: Forget 3-D; consumers want their Internet TV – SiliconValley.com

July 30, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

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 [...]

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Google TV

July 28, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

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.

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YouTube 3D coming within a year

July 22, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

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 [...]

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Mobile Video On Steep Growth Curve — Mobile Services — InformationWeek

July 19, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

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 [...]

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Google creates $5 million fund for YouTube content creation awards

July 13, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

* 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. [...]

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Can I cut the cable now!? | Home Theater | Playlist | Macworld

July 12, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, web video by Josh

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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TVB | Moscow Lab Compares H.264 and Google’s VP8

July 8, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

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 [...]

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DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

April 3, 2010 in digital video news, web products, web video by Josh

A few quotes: “DV Kitchen, from DV Creators, costs little more than a budget video encoder, yet offers a host of professional features.” “SampleLab allows bitrate data size/quality trade-offs to be gauged quickly and accurately. It’s simple to use but incredibly useful, and therein lies its genius.” “The Bitrate Calculator is a useful, foolproof way [...]

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The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

February 21, 2010 in web products, web video by Josh

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 [...]

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Americans Viewed a Record 16.8 Billion Videos Online in April Driven Largely by Surge in Viewership at YouTube

June 4, 2009 in digital video news, web video by Josh

Average U.S. Viewer Watched 6.4 Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix RESTON, VA, June 4, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 16.8 billion online videos during [...]

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U.S. video viewing habits report

June 1, 2009 in digital video news, web video by Josh

Neilsen recently released a report on U.S. household video viewing habits. The survey reported viewers spent slightly more (2%) time watching TV in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter of 2008, while time spent watching video on the internet increased 53%. Still, viewers spend an average of only 3 hours watching [...]

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Shooting Awesome Video

May 22, 2009 in cinematography, lighting, location sound, planning, self-paced training, web video by Josh


Shooting Awesome Video is a complete introductory course in camera operation, shooting aesthetics, lighting, location audio and a bonus behind-the-scenes shoot section.

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DV Kitchen gets another awesome review! This one from Allan Tepper.

March 15, 2009 in web video by Josh

“DVKitchen is unique in helping you to determine your ideal settings… very quickly…” “No other program on the planet has all of these time-saving features ” “As you play with any of the five sliders, the recommended bitrate budget number updates dynamically! I don’t know any other software tool, at any price, that offers this. [...]

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iPhone 2.2 software update includes video podcast download

November 21, 2008 in digital video news, web video by Josh

Today, Apple released an update to the iPhone software that includes built-in podcast episode downloading. Why should you care? Here’s why: In the past, you could only watch (or listen to) podcasts on an iPhone by subscribing and downloading on your computer with iTunes, then syncing the episodes with your iPhone. While I’m sure a [...]

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Video Is No Longer The Future of the Internet. It’s the Present.

November 20, 2008 in digital video news, web video by Josh

Ten years ago I sat down with a VP of Cisco Systems and told him the future was video on the internet. At the time, he thought video would always be a minor, though growing element. He said “people don’t want to watch video on their PCs, they want to watch video on their TVs.” [...]

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Ken Stone writes glowing review of DV Kitchen

November 10, 2008 in web products, web video by Josh

Some quotes: “DV Kitchen is a finely crafted application, very easy to use and stable.” “DV Kitchen has ‘TimeFreezer’, a much better way to make still images from video.” “…you can have DV Kitchen add the ‘Shadow Box’ effect to movies that you create. It does this with one click and writes the html code [...]