Friday, September 29, 2006

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
Timeless Tribute. more



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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

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

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.

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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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

Monday, September 18, 2006

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


Thursday, September 14, 2006


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

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Internet Video News and Press Releases

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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