Saturday, March 31, 2007

New Internet Video - The Best Internet Videos, Movies and Web Sites on the Web

Do you believe in Reality TV? Do you think that any of what you are seeing is real? In that case, you need to watch this funny and subtly educational video about the secrets of Reality TV and editing. Its quite good - especially if you appreciate the British humor thing. Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe - Reality TV Editing

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This is quite interesting. What happens when you do a music mash-up between some of the world's most classic rock and roll tunes and a classic film like The Wizard of Oz? Check it out here Video Mashup: Dark Side of Oz

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This is a great example of how to use viral video to promote your business or product. In this case a book - the "Average American Male" these three short funny films demonstrate what men are really thinking about during sex and related relationship episodes.

American Male 1
American Male 2
American Male 3

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Pirelli Tires - Yes it is just a long commercial but it features great editing, an extremely fast and sexy Lamborghini sports car, gratuitous violence and a beautiful blond - Uma Thurman. Watch Mission Zero. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. If you haven't seen it, watch it now.
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Many commercial sites are learning to leverage the power of the Internet and "viral" videos to promote their messages and SELL product. Some are a bit heavy handed and obvious. Check out these four short and funny films from Bic - two are really good. Stubble Trouble and The Lab made our insides hurt. In a good way...

BixFlixxx

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"Dead Wrong" is the funny story of how a happy, but mistake-prone intern for Death makes a house call. Written, Edited and Directed by Craig Kuehne. Hosted at the YouAreTV site. There are not a lot of films here yet but we really like their interface and the video player. Extremely cool


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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Internet Video News

Big Media rally against YouTube - Broadband TV News
Several Big Media companies are joining together to fight YouTube, the video-sharing service now owned by Google. Murdoch’s News Corp. and NBC Universal said they will create an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, plus clips that users can modify and share with friends.

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Wildform, Inc. today announced the release of WildPresenter Pro 3.1, a major update to its powerful and award-winning multimedia presentation software. The new update includes many of the features most requested by Wildform customers including full screen display more

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If you want to make money making Internet Video - you got to read this article at LightReading. In addition to analyzing the market and opportunities, they have a great up to date chart showing where the best opportunities are for converting your video chops into cold hard cash. If you want to go straight to the gold, here is the chart


Metacafe Teams With Bochco For Video Confessions Channel
by Gavin O'Malley
Online video startup Metacafe is attempting to bring a little gravitas to the world of consumer-generated media with a video confessions channel created by Hollywood producer Steven Bochco. - Read the whole story from Online Media Daily..


By using "Userplane Userlist", a Flash-based user-management app with instant messaging, online communities or corporate websites can now deploy the new Userplane Userlist, enabling users on a site to view other users’ online status and initiate IM conversations. This latest product release further enhances Userplane’s turnkey solution available via Instant Install – free script that can be pasted onto any web page in seconds, with Userplane-hosted ad space displayed below the applications. more


TV One’s new C2-7110 Dual Channel Multi-format Presentation Switcher features the innovative CORIO EXP Front Panel which gives the user complete functionality with 48 buttons, multi-way navigation control and integrated LCD. It’s all located directly on the front of the unit making on-site control easy. The CORIO2® based C2-7110, features nine inputs and two independent video processing and scaling engines and two video mixers for maximum flexibility in handling Composite, YC (S-Video), YUV Component, YPbPr HD Component, DVI, and RGB. more


Channels.com today launched a revolutionary new Web video guide providing both consumers and programmers a central location for the discovery and promotion of the best video on the Web. For consumers, Channels.com is an all-in-one video guide where they can view clips and previews and find longer format videos from the best of TV, cable, and broadband programmers. more


TV One’s new C2-160 PCI/ISA card provides high quality scan conversion from Computer or HDTV signals to standard video formats in a compact package. It comes with all the great features that are common to TV One products such as Genlock, Chromakey, Lumakey, PIP and Mixing. It’s ready for PC integration and plugs into a vacant slot inside the PC where it receives all its’ power from a standard hard drive connector within. more


You can now easily and quickly upload your favorite videos from your computer desktop to your mobile phone. One-Click DittyBop Software Lets You Watch Videos

Anywhere You Go On Your Mobile Device. busineSMS.com Software, a leading provider of software solutions tools for mobile developers, has launched DittyBop, a Windows application that makes it easy to watch your digital video collection on your mobile device. Leveraging the company’s MercuryXMS product suite, DittyBop gives consumers their own personal, secure mobile 'library' where they can upload and watch video from their mobile device. more


Voxant, the Viral Syndication Network (VSN), today officially launched TheNewsRoom(TM) (http://www.thenewsroom.com), its premiere site for fully licensed content from 165 news organizations. TheNewsRoom features a revolutionary viral mashing(TM) technology and an advertising-based revenue model that pays content originators and participating Web sites and blogs. In addition, Voxant announced Campaign2008, a new channel in TheNewsRoom for campaign videos and news. more


Gen Art and Planet Green, a partnership between Starbucks and Global Green USA, are bringing more opportunities for aspiring filmmakers by debuting Gen Art’s Online Film Festival. A select panel of judges from Gen Art will select seven short films based on originality, quality and congeniality with the festival’s ‘Green’ theme. Artists are invited to share their thoughts, concerns, hopes, and visions about the growing climate crisis.

Film submissions will be accepted until March 21, 2007. From March 29th to April 13th, the seven selected shorts will be available for viewing and voting on www.genartfestival.com/online and through an interactive avatar based environment on planetgreengame.com. Through online voting, one of the seven filmmakers will win $2500 plus a prize package and a premiere screening at the 12th annual Gen Art Film Festival in New York City. more

TVOne-Task makes conversion to HDMI simpler than ever with the 1T-AVPC-HDMI HD and PC to HDMI Video Scaler which outputs resolutions up to 1080p. Analog more


Tiffen announce the introduction of its Dfx digital filter suite software. This new digital filter software is offered both as a comprehensive standalone and as a suite of application-specific plug-ins. The plug-ins are designed to seamlessly integrate with today’s most popular image-manipulation or video post-production software. And both the suites and standalone are compatible with today’s Windows or Macintosh computers. more


JVC Professional Products introduced the VR-N900U, a fully integrated standalone network video recorder (NVR), which records images from both analog and IP cameras enabling the cost-effective upgrade of an existing system to a digital IP network. The VR-N900U is configured to accept both analog and IP camera inputs. Its single box design provides simple configuration and management of all sized surveillance systems using conventional front panel controls, or with an optional keypad and mouse. more


PureVideo.com (www.purevideo.com), leading web-wide video search destination, announced a series of new features, including the My.PureVideo custom video web page, the PureVideo toolbar, a new channel for educational research, new media partners and a deeper index. more


Blip.tv, the video sharing site focused on independently produced shows, today announced that popular videoblogger and Internet personality Ze Frank will air the final episodes of The Show with Ze Frank using blip.tv’s services. Frank’s final episode will air on March 17, 2007. more