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Viacom's US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google's video-sharing site YouTube has been dismissed by the court, ending for now an acrimonious...
It shoots at 1080p, which is nice, but to be honest they were already pushing it with 720p. These little cams just don’t have the lenses for it. Still, you can always resize, and it’s all going to be on YouTube in the end, anyway. They should be available in April for $150.
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Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com will open a separate company that offers online video, as rival Google's YouTube remains blocked in China
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What do you want in a TV? Good picture? Low price? Or… video chat? Well, LG thinks you want video chat, though to be fair their new TVs are also quite delicious-looking. The real star of the show was the “LEF,” however, a 1/4-inch thick display that out-thins Panasonic’s surprise from last year. Unfortunately, nobody knew a thing about it. “Straight out of Korea,” said one LG rep. “I’ve never even heard of this thing,” said another. So basically, it’s a prototype and not for sale, which isn’t that much of a surprise. It also had a huge brick for a base, which I assume held the guts. By the way, in the video above, I say that the LEF is an OLED display, but I really have no basis for that. Just completely making it up. And the little ones aren’t OLED either. Just small household LCDs.
The new LE line of LED-backlit TVs, however, is well-documented. They’re quite large and fairly expensive, but that is the way of the HDTV world. If you think back to last CES, we saw the beginnings of the “connected TV” movement, and this is LG catching up. The TVs offer Skype, Netflix, Napster (!), Vudu, YouTube, and those Yahoo Widgets we saw debut with… was it Samsung, last CES? I think so. They look like regular TVs, so no pictures of them necessary! Besides, LG’s press kit site is being unreliable. The Infinia series, basically the top end of the LED line, is led by the LE9500, which goes at a ridiculous 480Hz and is, of course, 1080p. The other two (8500 and 7500) have a piddling 240Hz, and the non-Infinia TVs are a totally unacceptable 120Hz. No matter that a ton of content looks like garbage at those refresh rates, it’s all about the numbers! I’m not going to go over every model; they’ve updated the whole line of TVs from 15-inch little guys to 55-inch ultra-lux models. The details are all here. Dive in.
A recent patent application was brought to the public's attention on Bnet. The patent lends people to believe that Google may begin using YouTube to host some sort of online games. Google's patent, Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos, was filed back in February, but was just published in December. The patent brings about the idea of interactive video clips that can contain link objects, which can be used to jump to specific parts of the video. This can sort of be understood like a DVD menu, where clicking on a certain choice will jump you to a certain scene of the movie.
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As seen on Geek.com, there was a video posted on YouTube of a black man and a white woman testing a theory that HP webcams don't properly track black peoples' faces. The man in the video comically entertains the idea by demonstrating how his HP webcam's facial recognition tracking won't follow him, but seems to have no trouble following his white co-worker. In a non-angry way, the man calls out HP computers as being racist. For the holidays, the man purchased an HP MediaSmart computer, and as evident from the video, the webcam on it seems to be calibrated to track white skin tones, but not black ones.
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Google currently airs some TV shows on YouTube but according to reports from All Things Digital the web giant could be ready to offer first-run shows for a fee. All things digital sources insiders at Google who claim that "Google's video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee". Apple and Amazon both offer shows for download without commercials priced at $1.99 per episode. YouTube currently runs a small amount of TV shows that are advert supported and which stream through the browser. It's not yet clear exactly what content YouTube would offer but in the UK Google recently began streaming full length Channel 4 TV shows.
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Okay, maybe not. Here’s the thing. A lot of the shows listed are just 5:00 long minisode’s that have been available on YouTube, and Boxee, for years. The only shows that have full episodes are 80’s and 90’s crap like V.I.P. (3.8 rating on IMDb), S.W.A.T. (6.3 on IMDb), Max Steel (5.3 on IMDb). There are a few gems here like The Tick and News Radio, so I guess I can’t complain about the video site that much because, well, the Crackle brings more free videos to the free Boxee service.
Since July of 2008, the Terms of Service for YouTube have restricted implementations of the technology on TVs utilizing the APIs. The means of gaining YouTube access, such as video scraping technology, weren't approved, and now the company will begin fully restricting those who can access it, starting on December 2. The December 2 deadline was said to have first shown up here, on the blog of the COO of Popcorn Hour. The message stated, "As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, YouTube will no longer be available to Popcorn Hour users," and warned users that this was no technical issue.
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Channel 4's 4oD shows are now available for UK users of Youtube. Following the deal that was brought up a while ago, Youtube is now starting to host full-length episodes of top Channel 4 series, such as Peep Show and Gordon Ramsay's F Word, according to The Guardian. Youtube has posted 5,000 videos on the Channel 4 Youtube channel, 4,000 of which are full-length shows. The number is going to increase though, as sometime in early 2010 the full range of Channel 4's shows is expected to be available to UK users.
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I’ve suffered much when it comes to digital photo frames. I purchased a number of frames from multiple manufacturers for members of my family with the expectation that I would, for time immemorial, email said frames images, thus allowing family members the opportunity to see new photos without having to drag them over from the computer. Alas and alack each one of these frames (Damn you, SmartParts!) has failed and their attendant services have gone out of business. I’m an optimistic fellow, however, and they say digital picture frame usage after being burned by picture frames in the past is a triumph of hope over experience. Well fool me again, picture frames, because I’m going to talk about the eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame with LifeGoRound. This is a bog standard, $149 photo frame with 8-inch screen and 800×600 resolution. It has 512MB internal memory and supports 802.11g WiFi. Nothing amazing, right? Well, this picture frame imports your images from your Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa feed. You’ve even got a little Twitter and YouTube in there, as well. It uses something called LifeGoRound and works fairly well. First, we present a video by the inimitable founder of the company, Norm Levy, who apparently hasn’t been paying attention to anything Truffaut wrote about raising tension in film. Yeah, pretty basic stuff. I set this frame up in a few minutes and was browsing my media a minute or so after that. I was able to feed a collection of almost all of my Facebook images to the frame immediately and, most important, I didn’t have to show my mom how to use it. This is, friends, high praise for a picture frame. Bottom Line While I’m sure Mr. Levy’s company will be around until the FSM returns to Earth to judge the wicked, I cannot recommend any photo frame married to a web-based service unequivocally. I’ll already experienced two photo frame flame-outs and there are doubtless more on the way. My hope is that this one will stick around because I don’t want to have to ship my mom another frame. Photo frame manufacturers take note: Build a photo frame with a built in POP client and web presence with dynamic DNS support – essentially a postfix and apache instance on a small board – and the world will beat a path to your door. Norm has been kind enough to offer three of these as give aways for our Gift Guide so you, the reader, can judge for yourself the suitability of said frames to your needs. Feel free to comment below and we’ll pick three lucky winners on Monday.
Spanish-language network will offer current, full-length programs on YouTube. When will the big networks follow suit?
The world's most popular video-sharing site is planning to offer content in all of its high-resolution glory. YouTube announced that it will allow users to...
Microsoft announced today that it is consolidating MSN Video into Bing Video. Bing Video will offer MSN's array of videos, and videos from sites such as Hulu, ABC, Youtube and more than 300 content providers. The old video.msn.com portal will now forward directly to Bing Video. In a company blog posting, a Microsoft spokesperson detailed Bing video: "Today, we are announcing a new version of Bing Videos that brings together the rich editorial content and programming of MSN Video with the web-wide breadth and great search capabilities of Bing, to deliver a new online video destination that offers a comprehensive and faster video experience.
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Before I get started, I think we should break out protocols that one uses intentionally, and those ancillary protocols that get used in the normal execution of your other protocols. For example, every time I visit a web page I intentionally use the HTTP protocol. But unless I’m manually keying in IP addresses, there’s an awful lot of DNS traffic taking place, too. I don’t intentionally use the DNS protocol: it happens behind the scenes as I’m using my web browser. So with that out of the way, here are the protocols I intentionally choose to use on a regular basis: HTTP SSH IRC X Some of the lesser used, but still important, protocols I use include
But these are all modern — or at least currently utilized — protocols. What about the stuff from yesteryear? As I mentioned in my Gopher post yesterday, I started using the Internet by way of a SLIP, and later PPP, connection. Prior to accessing the Internet, I was using Bulletin Board Systems, which had their own suite of protocols:
So how about you? What protocols do you use regularly? Which protocols from days of yore do you miss?
A great African American civil rights activist one said, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” That’s how I feel about copyright these days. You’ve got these entrenched business interests who seemingly have their favorite congressmen on speed-dial, and then you have people who, God forbid, would like to see these businesses embrace new, practical business models that don’t automatically assume their customers are potential criminals. But this! This latest development has me thinking, “You know what? Just shoot me. Go ahead. I don’t have to pay my student loans any more (take that, Citibank!), and I won’t have to worry about being treated like a criminal by the likes of whatever stupid entertainment company is in Congress’ good graces this week. Win-win.” What the heck am I whinging about? It’s the leaked notes of an international copyright treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, that’s in the process of being negotiated in Seoul. Everything’s very hush-hush, of course, and you don’t hear a damn thing about it on TV, no. No, that’s filled with crackpots on the left and right claiming that health care will fix everyone’s problems automatically or destroy the country as soon as it’s signed into law. As if things this complicated could be debated in 30-second segments. Anyhow, the bullet points of the treaty, by way of Boing Boing:
Awesome. My favorite part is that treaty signatories have to abide by U.S.-style copyright takedown convention. Don’t worry, Planet Earth, we’ve got your best interests in mind. The heck we do! Whatever, I’m tired of this he-said, she-said garbage, vis-à-vis copyright, as should be clear by the tone of the post.
Apple TV 3.0's new main menu adds shortcuts to recently rented or purchased movies — TV shows, music, podcasts, photos and YouTube are also front and center.
Interestingly, since I hacked 2.x, I don’t really want to do this update. If you guys try it, let me know. I may give it a go this afternoon.
Nicholas here, fresh off freaking out over Shogun Rua’s loss last night. (I hate to use the word “robbed,” but Mr. Rua was 100 percent robbed last night. Later today: watching Dream 12!) I just wanted to draw your attention to a New York Times essay I just stumbled upon. It’s about the Internet, and our increased dependence upon it. It’s pretty short, so it won’t kill you to read the whole thing. The basic thesis, nearest I can tell, is that the Internet has taken over our lives; that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Is it harmful to spend 20+ hours playing an online video game at the expense of “real life” contact, or at the expense of school or work? Yeah, probably. But, as the Internet, and computers in general, move away from a work/school-only phenomenon and converge with our lesser activities (entertainment and the like) we become susceptible to, well, losing ourselves in it. That is, “Man alive, I’m been here three hours, and all I’ve been doing is looking up old Ric Flair promos on YouTube, and then doing the related Wikipedia shuffle. I went from looking up Starrcade to the concept of sovereignty in just a few clicks! And I have articles to write, (and Dream 12 to watch)!” Yes, the essay is a little hinky. The question becomes how to properly allocate your time online between the pointless and the slightly less pointless. Do you download an application that kicks you offline, and keeps you there? Do you study/work from a place that has zero Internet access? Or do you embrace the fact that, well, this is how we do things from now on: working right alongside 18 tabs about the history of Nintendo and the Monday Night Wars?
Of course, Vodaphone isn’t here in the US, but internet video in universal, and this is pretty damn cool. So sit back, turn up the speakers, click play, and see what happens when some very clever people get 1000 cellphones together in one place and decide to make a viral video. Here’s the making of video too, it’s definitely worth a viewing: [via Mashable]
You guys! Remember back on January 5th of this year when I put up a post about these scuba goggles that have a built-in high definition video camera for recording stuff under water? Well, they’re finally available. Ah, January 5th. Those were the days. Just look at all these video clips of various sea creatures attacking other sea creatures! That could be YOU wearing the mask that captures such exhilarating high definition footage. The clip of the octopus attacking the crab would have scared the bejesus out of me. You should never mess with an octopus and you should especially never mess with a squid. Trust me, I grew up in Minnesota. I know all there is to know about sea creatures. Back to the actual goggles, the high definition version records in 720p and can dive to a maximum depth of 115 feet. Pricing starts at $300. There are less expensive, lower-resolution models available starting at $110 as well. Scuba Video Masks [DiveCamCentral.com] Here’s the full press release:
If you’re still not on the pocketable camcorder bandwagon, you’re missing out! Well, maybe you’re not. It’s all relative, really. The important thing is that if you feel like you’re missing out, then you can get into the game today for around 100 bucks. Amazon is selling the very Flip MinoHD-like Creative Vado HD camcorders for $130 (8GB version) and $100 (4GB version), today only. That’s down from street prices of about $180 and $140, respectively. The camcorders feature 720p video recording, two-inch displays, integrated USB connectors, direct YouTube uploading, replaceable lithium-ion batteries, and HDMI output ports. One-Day Deal on Creative Labs Vado HD Pocket Video Camcorders [Amazon]
You know the Chumby, right? It’s that bedside clock/alarm/radio/YouTube & Flickr open source thingamabob. It’s hella cool, but it’s also kind of complicated for the non-techy and requires WiFi to work. I say blah to that! Really the only extra info you need to know in the morning besides the time is the weather anyway. That’s where the Flurry Alarm Clock from Ambient Devices comes in. This little alarm clock sports the standard alarm clock functions, but adds weather info to the mix. The AccuWeather 2-day forecast is piped in via Ambient’s free InfoCast wireless network. This means that you really could give this as a Christmas gift to your technically-challenged mother and she could use all of it’s functions with ease. I mean, look at it, there’s nothing complicated or overwhelming about it. But there’s one little thing, it’s $129 at Best Buy, which means your mom probably won’t get one for Christmas.
Antivirus vendor Kaspersky A prediction of a spam-filled YouTube is coming dangerously close to reality.
I am so sorry, you guys. I was AFK yesterday, and no one else on Team CG thought it was important to bring you this sad news: Captain Lou Albano, who you may remember as Mario from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, passed away yesterday. He was 76. Before his break into TV, Albano was a pro wrestling manager, which, to be fair, was a bit before my time. I look forward to reading Dave Meltzer’s obituary of Albano in the coming days. Of course, Wikipedia is your friend—it’s pretty much my only friend, as a matter of fact—if you want to learn more about his career. But Mario! My God, who doesn’t remember that TV show? I embedded the intro here, but there’s a whole bunch of episodes on YouTube if you wanna watch. The ludicrous thing is that the intro rap to the TV show is better than 99 percent of the hip-hop that’s out there today. Well, the “popular” hip-hop, maybe there’s some underground guy who’s really good.
Looks like those images that leaked back in August of the WD TV 2 were pretty spot on. Earlier today, Western Digital announced the newest member of its growing WD TV family, the WD TV Live. As you may (or may not) recall, we’ve been pretty big fans of the original WD TV HD media player since it was released at the end of 2008. The highly capable little black box provides a simple, yet effective solution for watching your growing collection of digital media on your HDTV.
One of the few missing features in the original WD TV was any variety of network connectivity. Luckily, Western Digital has listened to the growing community of WD TV fans and included both an ethernet port for wired connectivity as well as support for USB Wi-Fi adapters. But the Internet fun doesn’t stop there. According to the press release:
The new Internet and network capabilities are welcome additions to this already impressive and relatively inexpensive HD media player. Along with these new features, the WD TV Live features the same 1080p playback, support for just about every codec under the sun, HDMI connectivity, and the ability to show photos and play music like its older sibling (complete comparison chart available here). The WD TV Live is available now for $149.99 MSRP. Check back for our hands-on review in the coming weeks.
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We’ve always enjoyed Kodak’s pocket cams — compact, decent video, and solid price. The newest one is pretty awesome; I got to put my hands all over it last night and it has a good feel to it. It’s smaller, but feels more solid than the Zi6, Zi8, or Zx1. And of course it’s totally waterproof. They had it in a fish bowl and it functioned just fine. I don’t have fish, but I can think of some uses for this thing.
Hope you peeped that youtube video 
