Internet Video Magazine (http:www.internetvideomag.com) today announced they have added a hundred new Internet Videos to their featured spotlight of Best Videos of the Week, Best Video Web Sites of the Week, Best Music Videos of the Week, and as well to the Parody Commercial, Funny, Political, Cat & Dog, and Star Wars videos sections.

There's a bunch of new flicks at the Holiday Films section including great new Santa and Winter Holiday movies. more

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In response to the consumer demand for a single software application, Sony Media Software has broken out DVD Architect Studio that was previously included in the Vegas Movie Studio+DVD bundle. You no longer have to buy the entire Vegas Movie Studio to use htis powerful DVD creation application for DVD authoring for movies, song compilations and picture slideshows. more

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Try out the new version of Adobe Phtoshop Cs3 - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced a beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 software, the next release of the world standard in digital imaging, on Friday, December 15th. Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel-based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform, as well as for Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP and Windows Vista computers. more

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If you can hum the melody, Navio can find it for you on the web. Nayio Media, Inc. launched the first melody-based Internet search tool on its website, Nayio.com. Nayio’s humming search tool guides consumers to songs even when they don’t remember the words; on Nayio.com, if you can hum it, you can find it. Through a strategic partnership with Napster (Nasdaq: NAPS), the digital music pioneer, the service cross-references the hummed melody with Napster’s massive library of more than three million songs and delivers a list of potential matches. more

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Send a Stupid Video Holiday card to your friends and family! StupidVideos.com (www.stupidvideos.com), the leading user-generated video site for humorous stunts, bloopers, standup comedy and everyday laughter, today introduced a new service, called SV eCards, through which users can send their friends and family free video egreetings that stream popular StupidVideos clips. more

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Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech) today announced that the implementation of engineering enhancements on the award winning NewerTech miniStack V2 combo external storage solution and integrated FireWire and USB 2.0 port expansion hub has resulted in even quieter operation. more

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December 9, 2006- San Diego, CA - Internet Video Magazine announces 10 New Years Resolutions for the Home Video Enthusiast and Home Movie Maker. Maybe you have been making home movies and tapes for awhile and somehow your friends and family never seem to want to watch them? These resolutions may help turn your video experience around... more

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This looks pretty cool. Now kids can direct, produce and screen their own action movies with the Marvel Heroes Ani-Movie from Jazwares, Inc. Using the latest stop motion, digital technology, the Ani-Movie lets young filmmakers create and edit action-packed movies and view them on their own television OR upload it to YouTube! more

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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

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With director brandon dickerson as its central directorial talent, kaboom productions has launched music video division BOOM. For dickerson, who is known for his clips for Sixpence None The Richer, Thousand Foot Krutch, Dishwalla, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Vince Gill and Switchfoot, the move was sparked by the desire to have complete representation under one roof. For kaboom founder/executive producer lauren schwartz, establishing BOOM further solidifies the company as a complete content provider. more

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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

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JVC now offers an alternative to the "one size fits all" approach to noise canceling headphones with the introduction of a dual-mode model that allows users to choose the mode that best suits the situation. more

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Adopt a Booty Today - 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

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So you want to direct or make your own movie but don't have any money? Or a script or even a cameraman? Film School in a Box (FSB) is launching a unique new product that allows anyone to create their own feature film. Shot in real time and on multiple cameras, the gripping footage is an unfolding thriller waiting to be shaped. Shot on 11 security cameras, the voyeuristic ‘neo-noir’ thriller unfolds a whodunit mystery surrounding the murder of a young girl. And since the movie can be edited into as many unique films as there are filmmakers who lay their hands on it, the film you choose to make will ultimately be your own. more

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Sundance Institute, a champion for independent filmmakers for over 25 years, announced that it is joining forces with the GSM Association (GSMA), whose members serve more than 2 billion mobile phone customers across the globe, to create the Sundance Film Festival: Global Short Film Project, a groundbreaking pilot project that will showcase and extend the reach of the independent short film genre to mobile users worldwide. more

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LuxuryTravel.TV, launching in the first half of 2007, is produced by Luxury Travel Media. The company currently publishes Luxury Travel Magazine, www.luxurytravelmagazine.com, the Internet's most comprehensive information resource for discerning travelers. more

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is expanding its popular Pinnacle PCTV™ product family with the addition of Pinnacle PCTV To Go. This new product gives customers the ability to enjoy their home entertainment systems from any location in the home or around the world. Easy wireless setup, integrated Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) support and comprehensive digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities make Pinnacle PCTV To Go a must-have for anyone interested in watching high quality TV shows, sporting events, movies or news on a PC, anytime, anywhere. more

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JVC Professional Products Company introduced the GY-HD200U high definition camcorder that features HDV 720/60P true progressive image acquisition, new 14bit A/D converter and standard 14.4v power system, this camera has been eagerly anticipated by independent filmmakers, stringers and sports videographers. more

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Sorenson Media is shipping Sorenson Squeeze 4.5 for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems

New Features:

- Up to 3x faster than Squeeze 4.3

- DVD disc burning

- New 3GPP, PSP, Blu-ray and HD-DVD Presets

- Reading and writing metadata for all major output formats

- Works natively on both PowerPC and Intel-for-Mac using Mac Universal Binary code

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Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), has begun shipping two PCI-E versions of the X1950PRO with AGP versions in December. The Viper X1950PRO represents the pinnacle of achievement in a wide-ranging series of high-performance graphics cards produced by Diamond and featuring the powerful ATI Radeon® chip that outperforms any other single or dual-slot solutions. This card uses the Radeon X1950 GPU and comes in both 256MB and 512MB GDDR3 interfaces. It has a core clock speed of 575MHz and a 1.38GHz memory speed. It supports Dual DVI (x2 Dual-link), HDTV, D-sub and VIVO. more

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Bella Corporation announced the immediate availability of their latest product, the DV Keyboard 3.0. Designed for the home video enthusiast, the DV Keyboard offers Bella’s unique built-in jog/shuttle controller – the world’s first and only keyboard to offer this feature. The jog/shuttle controller allows users to edit faster and more efficiently, offering precise control over their audio and video clips. more

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Velocity Micro announced the availability of ultra-performance machines based on the groundbreaking Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 and Intel® Xeon™ 5300 series processors. The new CPUs, which fit four execution cores in a single CPU package, can be ordered in Velocity Micro’s ProMagix line of workstations and in select Raptor series gaming PCs.

“The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is a performance powerhouse for high-end and enthusiast users who need a machine on the cutting edge for today and tomorrow,” said Randy Copeland, Velocity Micro President and CEO. “Our new machines based on the CPU bring unprecedented performance gains in highly threaded multimedia applications and games, and in multitasking scenarios.” more

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EyeWonder announced the full release of its all-new AdWonder™ Flash Component and Certification program. EyeWonder's new Flash module enables agencies to dramatically improve production efficiencies creating Online Video and Rich Media Ads. The new Certification Program enables creatives to highlight their expertise with the Component. more

Alienware® ­ the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook, media center and professional systems ­ is continuing to feed the needs of graphic-hungry users. The PC maker will equip its most powerful desktops with the unprecedented new NVIDIA® GeForce(TM) 8800 GTX graphics processing units (GPU) in single or dual-GPU mode with NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology. Customers purchasing award-winning Area-51® 7500, Aurora(TM) 7500, and ALX desktops will be able to configure their systems with the industry's first GPU to be fully compliant with next-generation DirectX 10 games and applications. more

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Other World Computing (OWC) announced the introduction and immediate availability of the new pocket-sized, totally bus-powered, OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro FireWire 800/400+USB2 portable storage solutions which utilize performance Serial ATA (SATA) 2.5" Hard Disk mechanisms to provide capacities of up to 200GB and priced starting from just $209.99. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro is the first-ever pocket sized, 2.5" SATA HD-based storage solution available to consumers. more

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WATCH THE 2006 “mtvU WOODIE AWARDS” ONLINE & ON-AIR STARTING NOVEMBER 2 @ 8pm ET - Only Awards Honoring College Students’ Favorite Emerging Artists & Music . Live Performances from Beck, TV on the Radio, Imogen Heap and Gym Class Heroes more

The Financial Times has launched an exclusive series of video interviews with global business leaders called View From The Top. The interviews, hosted by ROO Media, the global provider of online video technology and syndicated content, feature global CEOs giving their views on the world of business today and predictions for the future of their industries. Since launching View From The Top FT Video traffic has quadrupled. more

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It's sort of like MySpace for home do-it-yourselfers! BobVila.com, one of the Internet’s most-visited and longest-running home improvement websites, has launched a “MyProjects” site that allows users to incite communication with one another through the sharing of ideas, photos and videos in a blog area. This has been created in conjunction with the new season of the “Bob Vila” nationally syndicated series. more

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Facebook, the Internet’s leading social utility, today announced that for the first time people can access Facebook’s share functionality on multiple websites to share video, photos, news and other content with their friends on Facebook. Websites that add a link to share on Facebook will enable people to distribute content by posting it on their Facebook profiles or by sending it to specific Facebook friends without ever leaving the original website.

Barron’s Online, Boston.com, CollegeHumor.com, eBaumsworld.com, edgeio, GameSpot.com, Geffen, IDG Entertainment, The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Jumpcut.com, MarketWatch.com, Miniclip.com, NBCSports.com, the New York Times, People.com, Photobucket, PureVideo Networks, SI.com, TerraPass Inc., The Onion, Time.com, TV.com, U.S. News & World Report, the Wall Street Journal Online, Washingtonpost.com, and Ziff Davis Media are among the first sites to include a link to share on Facebook. more

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Rhozet Corporation today announced the availability of Carbon Coder version 2.0, the latest version of the company's enterprise-level transcoding solution for broadcast and web professionals. Carbon Coder 2.0 provides a host of enhancements such as accelerated transcoding and support for additional video formats including H.264, MXF OPAtom, JPEG 2000, DPX, and AAC. more

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced the public beta of Adobe® Soundbooth™ software, a new innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools. Unveiled to customers for the first time this week at the MAX 2006 Adobe user conference in Las Vegas, creative professionals now have the opportunity to test this new beta download and submit feedback to the Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/soundbooth. Adobe Soundbooth is available for both Intel-based Macintosh and Windows systems. more

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Looking to make money making video? Check out this new offer from AOL and Brightcove.

Dulles, VA and Boston, MA ­ October 30, 2006—AOL and Brightcove launched today a distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers. more

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Adobe Buys Serious Magic - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) acquired Serious Magic Inc.™, maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It™ delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe's leadership position in video software -- for both video professionals and consumers. more

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JVC Professional Products Company rolls out GY-HD250U high definition camcorder. As part of its growing ProHD line, this next generation full HD resolution camcorder is the first HDV model to offer studio capabilities, and features 720/60p capture and recording for electronic newsgathering. more

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ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com) unveiled ClipBlast! VideoView™, a weekly benchmark of video supply and demand online. When it debuts on Nov. 6, ClipBlast! VideoView will serve as a snapshot of both what America is watching online and what content providers are making available, on the Web, for the country to watch. Each weekly report will highlight the previous week’s top clip, as determined by ClipBlast!’s patent-pending technology. Initially focused on the U.S. market, ClipBlast! VideoView will go global during 2007. more

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Digital Anarchy announced the release of a Universal build for their Microcosm Codec. Microcosm is a 16-bit, lossless codec that achieves incredible compression ratios while maintaining absolute image fidelity. The codec supports alpha channels and works in all QuickTime-based applications, including After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and Avid. This new release adds compatibility for all host software running on Macintosh-Intel systems natively or through Rosetta. more

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TechSmith Corp. announced the availability of Camtasia Studio 4, enabling individuals with no programming or multimedia expertise to create screencasts of software demonstrations, interactive training, online marketing content, and PowerPoint-based video presentations that can be delivered to portable media players including the Apple iPod. more

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Sony Mylo is a real cool device. We played with one the DemoFall2006 conference and were very impressed. This could be the hottest thing for the upcoming holidays. This product is designed for people who use instant messaging as a primary form of communication and networking for their social life. The name mylo stands for “my life online” and the communicator lets you use instant messaging, browse the Internet, listen to music, send emails and view photos concurrently.

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Digital Foci's new Picture Porter portable digital photo album with hard drive and card reader lets you instantly and securely save and view digital photos and video on an internal 40 GB hard drive wherever you go, so you can keep snapping away and not worry about running out of memory card space. With its high-capacity hard drive, you can now carry your collection of digital photos and video with you all the time right in your pocket and view them anywhere you go on Picture Porter’s bright 2" color LCD screen. With Picture Porter, you can rotate, zoom, pan your pictures, view EXIF information, and play picture slideshows for friends. You can even connect Picture Porter to a TV and share your photos and music with family and friends on a big screen in the comfort of your living room. more

Mobile Streams and Showtime Networks Inc. announced today that Mobile Streams has built an Off-Deck WAP portal to provide mobile users with access to content from SHOWTIME programs for the first time. WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol, is a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators. Mobile users with 2.5G or 3G handsets will be able to access the mobile offering, subject to carrier and handset capabilities. more

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PodCamp is coming to Pittsburgh - This will be the second in what's become a growing number of PodCamp "un-conferences" around the country. This is a free grassroots event dedicated to sharing information and ideas regarding blogs, vlogs, audio and video podcasting and portable media in general. more
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PureVideo Networks, operator of popular video sites, StupidVideos.com (comedy) and GrindTV.com (action sports), today unveiled the Company's first utility, called PureVideo Search (www.purevideo.com). Still in beta, PureVideo Search is the Internet's first meta search engine for video, combining the accuracy of a crawl-based search with the timeliness of a feed-based search, and returning the most comprehensive and relevant results from the entire Web. PureVideo Networks' proprietary analysis determines rankings, displaying each result with an associated thumbnail image and a link to view the video at the respective publisher site. more

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MAGIX announced Webradio Recorder 2, consumer software that lets everyone download and record all the latest hits off the Internet for free. 100% legal, Webradio Recorder 2 records over 3,000 International Internet radio stations and provides an improved worldwide receiver with stations to suit everyone’s musical taste. Favorite radio programs can be recorded automatically and individual songs can easily be separated from whole radio shows, burned onto CD, and archived onto a hard drive. more
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Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE) announced the availability of version 2.0 software which adds native QuickTime HDV support to its industry leading Direct To Edit (DTE) FS-4Pro HD, FS-C and DR-HD100 recorders. The upgrade will be available for purchase in disc format on the Focus Enhancements website for $39. 1080i 50/60 and 720p/30 clips recorded in the QuickTime HDV format using FS-4Pro HD, FS-C and DR-HD100 can be used immediately in Apple Final Cut Pro 5 without having to first capture or convert footage. more
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Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, today begins shipping the X1300 PCI 256MB Viper video card. This cinematic 3D graphics card is the first Vista-ready PCI video card from Diamond and the most affordable graphics card to offer high-end features like high-definition (HD) display, using ATI's heralded Avivo display technology. more

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Rhozet Corporation today announced that its Carbon Coder video transcoding technology has been selected by mobile video pioneer Actimagine for online transcoding. Rhozet's automated transcoding software allows Actimagine's partners to conveniently and remotely prepare full-length movies for playback on mobile devices. more
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Looking for easy to use versions of Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop? Adobe Systems d (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that that the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 software for Windows are now shipping. Photoshop Elements offers innovative ways to organize, edit and share photo creations in new and entertaining ways. For video enthusiasts, Adobe Premiere Elements provides a simplified user interface that makes turning home video footage into polished home movies that are fun to watch and share. Also available together in a single retail package for Windows, Adobe Photoshop Elements plus Adobe Premiere Elements delivers unique integrated functionality that provides consumers with the ability to do more with their photos and home videos. more
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This is a great concept and a fun video to watch. It's a mashup - where you take various sources and hook them up together to create an entirely new and unique piece of entertainment. Mix a popular modern song with a classic Marx Brothers flick and you get Get Retarded/Day at the Races Mashup

muvee, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal Video, has released its new photoMemories stylePack, specifically designed for making muvees out of digital pictures. This plug-in stylePack for muvee autoProducer software features 6 new styles: Dynamic Colorplay, Geometry, Paper Frames, Photo Play, Reflections and
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Yahoo! acquired Jumpcut, a multimedia company at the forefront of video "remixing" and the creator of a Web property and application that offers a publishing tool and an interactive user community. The acquisition of Jumpcut complements Yahoo's multimedia strategy and includes assets such as a strong team, unique technologies, emerging brand, business partnerships and a growing community of users. To learn more, details are available in a post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000358.html and http://blog.jumpcut.com/.

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Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, today announced the launch of its free-to-use Content Management solution at DEMOfall 2006. “Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a massive growth in Web 2.0 applications for consumers to help them manage their videos, photos, and blogs” said Mark Suster, CEO of Koral, “Koral is the first of a new breed of Web 2.0 solutions for businesses. Koral helps people store, share and search the business information that lives in documents, emails, web pages, and folders – while keeping everyone in sync.” more

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Atom Entertainment is launching a new NewsGames section on AddictingGames.com. All the games that will be on this channel will all be created around headlines in the news that will mock the most popular cultural topics of the day. Most of the games are expected to be all user generated as well so with the current technology anyone can become a game creator and it's almost as quick and easy as making the online videos. Atom is also putting its resources into getting additional content through a new business relationship with Persuasive Games, a leader in developing, producing and distributing electronic games for persuasion and instruction. more

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its Consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is unveiling several new products. The additions include the Pinnacle Studio MovieBox™ and Pinnacle Studio™ MovieBoard families, both of which allow consumers to preserve analog video content in digital format and easily create movies for sharing via DVD, the Web or Podcasting. The company has also introduced two new TV viewing products – Pinnacle PCTV™ HD Pro Stick and Pinnacle PCTV MCE Companion – for those who want to watch TV remotely on their personal computers or integrate their TV viewing experience with Microsoft® Windows® Media Center Edition (MCE). more

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The Webby Awards today launched its 11th Annual Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in online film and video and interactive advertising.
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. more


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Dovetail (www.dovetail.tv) is putting out a call for entries for a film competition to be judged by Dovetail users. The winning filmmaker will receive $1,000 cash and 10,000 shares of stock in the new company. Dovetail invites independent filmmakers to take their best films off the shelf and put them onto screens in the homes of Indie film fans everywhere via Dovetail. The call for entries in Dovetail's "Off the Shelf and Onto the Screen" film competition is now open through September 30, 2006. more

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Content delivery network VitalStream today announced it has been selected by MySTACK, the first online video site and social network for high school athletes, as its exclusive provider for Flash video streaming. more

ATOM FILMS announced the winners of their Cell phone video contest Carrie Wolberg won the $5,000 grand prize in Alltel’s Are You Circle Worthy? contest for her 30 second film, "Hot, Hot, Hot". This video contest required the participants to shoot a short with just a cell phone. Check out all the finalists.

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The Webby Awards today launched its 11th Annual Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in online film and video and interactive advertising.

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Content delivery network VitalStream today announced it has been selected by MySTACK, the first online video site and social network for high school athletes, as its exclusive provider for Flash video streaming. more

Content delivery network VitalStream today announced it has been selected by MySTACK, the first online video site and social network for high school athletes, as its exclusive provider for Flash video streaming. more

New InterVideo iVideoToGo Platinum Converts DVDs, Video Files to iPod and PSP Movies. asy, 3-step Solution Delivers iPod and PSP Movies with Smooth, Flawless Playback more
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Fliqz (www.Fliqz.com) announced a new tool that they say will allow any website to host video easily and for free. Gone are the days of expensive back-end hardware maintenance and the severe time sink related to hosting video. Now, via a quick embeddable piece of HTML code, a site can offer its users video functionality straight through their own site, not a third-party’s. more

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Back by popular demand the Camera and Camcorder Trade-up Program.Ends January 15, 2007.

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In an unprecedented move, NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates will launch an independent business-to-business marketplace designed to aggregate, monetize and distribute both NBC Universal and third party video to tens of millions of unique users worldwide. Launched with the participation of over two-dozen media partners, the nbbc (National Broadband Company) connects content owners, website owners and advertisers to create a robust viewing experience across the web. more

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Serious Magic, Inc.™ announced DV Rack 2.0, the latest version of its direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help generate superior quality video from an SD or HD camera connected to a laptop. With DV Rack 2.0, Serious Magic strengthens the power of its 10 production tools and now offers a version with real-time capture support for DVCPro50 and DVCProHD cameras. more

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SONY UNVEILS CHIC NOTEBOOKS FOR THE HOME - Fashionable Colors and Design Make VAIO N Series PCs Stylish Accessories for all Abodes. Designed to compliment any home's motif, Sony today unveiled the VAIO® N Series notebook computer line featuring cool colors, smooth lines and a simple sense of style for people who want to balance form with function. more

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ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), a pioneering video search technology, today introduced the industry's first online video search toolbar. ClipBlast’s patent-pending technology gives users the ability to search for video clips from across the entire web – a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN do not provide. more

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ViewCast® Corporation has launched its Osprey-530 digital video capture card, the newest addition to the company's Osprey Studio Series, with all the inputs and features broadcast professionals expect. Available immediately, the card offers a combination of digital and analog inputs for live and on-demand video streaming, and interfaces with high-end broadcast gear. It is the direct result of feedback from broadcast professionals for a cost-effective solution to their needs. more

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Adobe rolls out upgraded versions of Adobe Elements - Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. These are the light versions of Adobe's top of the line imaging products for digital cameras and camcorders. Both programs include much of the performance of their higher level brethren but with a much simpler and easier to use interface.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced two milestone upgrades to its digital photo and video products for consumers, Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements 5.0 for Windows(r) and Adobe Premiere(r) Elements 3.0 for Windows. The unique integrated functionality of the products allows users to do more with their photos and videos, whether adding impact to photo slideshows with video effects and transitions, providing dramatic pauses to videos with freeze frame effects or creating professional-looking printed CD/DVD labels and covers. more

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Blip.tv, an online video sharing site that hosts and distributes Web-based TV shows and videoblogs, announced today that its premium content will be available for television viewing through Akimbo’s Internet video-on-demand service. By showcasing its highest-quality and most popular online video series through Akimbo, blip.tv ensures that the best user-generated video will be available in millions of homes across the U.S. and Canada. more

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Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT), a leading provider of audio-visual connectivity and control solutions, today announced the Emerge ECMS2000U digital workstation extender, which provides hardware-based extension for digital/analog video, USB keyboard and mouse, USB media, and audio signals. The Emerge ECMS2000U extender makes it possible to back-rack broadcast quality servers without impact to post-production operations. more

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