by Allen Weiner | December 15, 2008 | Comments Off
HD camcorders from such CE companies as JVC are likely to be the rage at CES next month. Here’s a short video preview on what we may (or many not) see on the show floor. CES 2009: HD Camcorders on ParadeA look ahead at what we are likely to see @ CES 2009 in the [...]
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Category: broadcasting Mobile Publishing Video videocameras Tags: camcordrers, CES, Everio, JVC
by Allen Weiner | December 10, 2008 | Comments Off
Economy in trouble? Layoffs coming in horrific waves? Daily newspapers filing for bankruptcy? Oprah packing on the pounds? Hah. We’re not worried about any of that sort of mundane sort of trivia. What we want to know is does a straight beat a flush. Or what did Paris Hilton wear to some wonderful after-party. Or [...]
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Category: advertising Search Uncategorized Video videocameras Tags: 2008, Holly Madison, Lycos, Obama, Palin, Search
by Allen Weiner | December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
It comes as no surprise that YouTube has made some changes to its business, some that have been well publicized–such as its attempt to shed its “mature” content and give video creators the ability to easily add licensed music to their clips–and others a tad more subtle. In late November, YouTube’s player suddenly changed its [...]
Category: blogging citizen media social media Video Web 2.0 Tags: Google, Hulu, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Faster than you can say, I am part of the Mapple Universe (thanks Lisa Simpson), a number of video services including Joost, mDialog and YouTube have brought rich on-demand versions of their web offers to the iPhone. Powered by innovative transcoder Ripcode, who has cracked the code in transcoding while a download is in progress, [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Television Video Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Joost, Livestation, mDialog, MySpace, Ripcode, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment
As I walked through the Austin Farmers Market on November 22, a local organization was handing out flyers telling locals about the February 17, 2009 deadline for the analog to digital transition, the point at which time local broadcasters would cease analog transmissions. In short, death to rabbit ears. Now, here’s the irony: Nov. 22 [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media social media Television Video videocameras Web 2.0 Tags: Akamai, Google, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 17, 2008 | Comments Off
As previously stated, I am a video guy. Back in the day, I was an A/V nerd and even worked after school to repair broken educational films by resplicing them when they cracked as they were wont to do. So, when the online consumer video craze began to surface about five years ago, I became [...]
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Category: advertising blogging broadcasting citizen media Newspapers Publishing social media Television Uncategorized Video videocameras Web 2.0 Tags: Kodak, mino, protail video, Pure Digital, samsung, videocameras, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 14, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s some food for thought: as NBC and Fox plan to share resources, would it make sense for News Corp to spin off Fox Broadcasting and for GE to spin off NBCU and create a new combined network? Imagine the efficiencies. Heck, I’d call the new network Hulu (the name of their online joint venture) [...]
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Category: advertising blogging broadcasting Television Video Web 2.0 Tags: Fox Broadcasting, GE, Hulu, NBC, News Corp, Obama
by Allen Weiner | November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments
Gartner issued a press release on a report I authored on protail video, a concept the Media IAS team began writing about a year ago. The concept–video that lives between professional network content and general UGC–has evolved a great deal since my first report and will undoubtedly have subsegments of its own, especially as new [...]
Category: advertising blogging broadcasting citizen media Newspapers Publishing Television Uncategorized Video Web 2.0 Tags: Boinx, Gartner, Liz Gannes, New TeeVee, On Networks, protail video
by Allen Weiner | November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
I was not surprised to see the Hollywood Reporter and other sources note that Blockbuster, the former 500 pound Gorilla in the video rental business, is looking to develop or partner in a set-top box implementation that would stream movies to the home. That original idea has been implemented by Nextflix/Roku, Vudu, Apple TV, Xbox, [...]
Category: advertising broadcasting Television Video Web 2.0 Tags: Apple, Blockbuster, Microsoft, Roku, Sezmi, Vudu
by Allen Weiner | November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
In case you were watching another network or perhaps getting your election video fix via Associated Press’ live streaming coverage (via PC or Mac), you missed CNN’s freaky holograms. I saw it twice, once with reporter Jessica Yellin the other with Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas. Gizmodo does a good job of explaining how [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Newspapers Publishing Television Uncategorized Video Web 2.0 Tags: CNN, elections, Gizmodo, holograms, media, Sportvu
