Internet Video
Newsletter – December 8, 2006
We have lots of
great new videos and video web sites to check out. Click on the
links to watch, laugh and guffaw. Most are funny – some are
amazing….
Best Internet Videos of the Week
Best Video Web Sites of the Week
We are always
looking for non-commercial articles about the latest Internet Video
trends and technologies so if you have something to say – please
ping us. If you are interested in advertising or promoting your
services, products or productions, our numbers are soaring – for the
last three months, we have been getting over 100,000 unique visitors
a month.
Articles,
Trends and Reviews
Santa's Guide to
Buying the Right Camcorder this Holiday Season. -
How to make sure you get the right type of camcorder and the
accessories you really need
This is a wonderful new video site that
you got to check out.
OVGuide.com (Online Video Guide) is a very interesting and
extremely useful online video directory and meta-search engine. They
have put together on a single page multiple links to the search
engines of most of the top video web sites. This is very cool. If
you are looking for a specific video you no longer have to search
from one site then to another site- the links are all in one place.
Excellent.
Got a camcorder,
digital camera or even a good cell phone camera? You might be able
to make some money capturing the news for Yahoo's new You Witness
Program. Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO
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news), in partnership with Reuters, is inviting the public to
contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, in the
latest move to turn spectators into on-the-spot journalists. The
Internet media company said it has created a news contribution
system called "You Witness" and is working with news and information
company Reuters Group Plc (RTR.L), which will edit and distribute
selected photos to other news outlets.
The online video boom
is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070
people for the BBC suggests.
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile
device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a
result.
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If you are looking for
new camcorder or video editing gear, check out B&H – great prices,
great people
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Mac
Users and Windows Users can now easily add extra monitors to their
machines
without having to open up their machines and add in special video
cards. Matrox Graphics Inc. announced that the Matrox DualHead2Go™
and TripleHead2Go™ are now compatible with Windows and Mac®
systems. From the Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM) product line, both
DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go are palm-sized boxes
that connect externally to a notebook or desktop computer and
uniquely allow users to attach two or three monitors respectively
for an incredible multi-monitor configuration. This is great for
video editing!
more
Ready to watch soap opera
on the internet and on cable TV? Check out
alamoheightsSA, a cross-cultural melodramedy, part
Soap, part Novela, part paid Cable drama. It is a story about two
families, one in San Antonio, Texas and their manufacturing
counterpart in Monterrey, Mexico. ” According to Eric Weymueller,
Producer, "We’ve developed 40 four-act episodes with duration of 7-9
minutes each for a budget of just over $1 million. The program has
proven to be very appealing to the 18-30 demographic and to female
viewers in particular.” Starting on November 27, 2006 the first
three episodes can be viewed on
www.alamoheightsSA.com. You can watch it in English or in
Spanish.
more
Check out the
"Lingerie Model video blogs - hilarious
So who is posting the
most videos to YouTube? The video guy down the street? Little Johnny
up in his room? Video porn kings? Nope - its CBS -
CBS Clips Top YouTube Charts, Boost Ratings
Also -
You Tube vs. Boob Tube at Wired Magazine
YouTube Waves Goodbye To 'Daily Show' Clips
Are you ready to put your
development dollars where ever your mouth and ears might be?
Global mobile broadband user base to hit 500m in 2010—report
Adopt a Booty Today -
VIDEO CONTEST
- Please help us with this very serious campaign to get booties
treated nicely. They're the most maligned creatures on Earth. You've
been asked to adopt babies, soldiers, communities, highways, rivers,
streams, cats, dogs (including pit bulls) and virtual pets. Some of
you kind souls responded generously by adopting these people,
creatures, things or natural wonders. Booties are natural wonders
too
more
Do you need a music
soundtrack to add emotional depth to your video productions? Even if
you're a musician who can compose, play, and record your own scores,
that's still a lot of work. The answer for many producers is an
automated soundtrack tool. Check out the latest from SonicPro and
from Sony. All about SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 and Sony Media
Software Cinescore Both of these soundtrack creation tools now
allow you to drill deeper into customizing the score by actually
adjusting the mix and mood of the soundtrack elements, providing a
whole new level of control over the emotional feel of the piece in
sync with the visuals.
more
AtomFilms® (www.atomfilms.com)
debuted an all-new version of its award-winning entertainment web
site, introducing a broadband television experience that makes it
easy to discover, watch and share thousands of original short movies
and web shows. Among the site's new features are a syndicated video
player that can be embedded on other sites, a high-resolution video
playback option, and customizable channels and content alerts.
more
With director brandon
dickerson as its central directorial talent, kaboom productions has
launched its new music video division “BOOM”. This is a very cool
site with interesting music videos -
more
Mac
Users and Windows Users can now easily add extra monitors to their
machines
without having to open up their machines and add in special video
cards. Matrox Graphics Inc. announced that the Matrox DualHead2Go™
and TripleHead2Go™ are now compatible with Windows and Mac®
systems. From the Graphics eXpansion Module (GXM) product line, both
DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go are palm-sized boxes
that connect externally to a notebook or desktop computer and
uniquely allow users to attach two or three monitors respectively
for an incredible multi-monitor configuration. This is great for
video editing!
more
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