Saturday, November 18, 2006

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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


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


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
- Integrate Apple's H.264

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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


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


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.”
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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



Friday, November 10, 2006

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


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


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



Wednesday, November 01, 2006

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.
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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