Did you know that  every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube & people are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day? But did you ever wonder, how good these videos are? Many videos on YouTube are not edited and look lame. So, how about making your own videos better for free?

The web gives us access to hundreds of programs available for free download. Some of them are really good others are not even worth waisting your time on downloading them. Here are the top 5 tools:

Anyway, you should remember that these programs are free and you may not be able to get support experiencing difficulties and their abilities are limited. In case you need some PRO software, which you are willing to pay for - you can find very helpful info here.

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Lifetime - is not only a video service, but also a big network aimed at women. It features everything you can think of: from simple make up tips to shopping and astorlogy! Lifetime has a big and very friendly community of women sharing different lifestyle ideas and of course, discussing videos!

Among the most popular shows currently on the channel are “Frasier“, “The Golden Girls“, “Reba“, “Still Standing“, and “Will & Grace“. Moreover, the network has recently acquired and added past episodes of “Desperate Housewives“, “Medium“, and “Grey’s Anatomy” to its weekend lineup. The network also airs original programming such as Strong Medicine, Intimate Portrait, Blood Ties, and Army Wives.

Aside from women’s programming, the network used to air several game shows in prime time, including Supermarket Sweep, Shop ‘Til You Drop and Debt. Lifetime also produced one original game show “Who Knows You Best?“, starring Gina St. John, with a format based on The Newlywed Game. But it was cancelled after one season.

In April 2004, Lifetime launched Lifetime Radio for Women, a daily nation-wide four-hour morning block mixing adult contemporary music, live caller interaction, celebrity guests and lively discussions about the topics relating to women. In partnership with Jones Radio, The service airs Monday to Friday from 5 to 9 AM or 6 to 10 AM, depending on the market.

All in all, Lifetime is the place No.1 for women who love to share their interests with others, because there you ca find not only useful and entertaining information, but many many friends!

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“A television set (usually called a television, TV set, or simply TV) is a device used to view television broadcasts, not to be confused with monitors, which are unable to independently tune into over-the-air broadcasts.” -  via Wikipedia.

Old TV’s:

Some TV’s you might find in your basement:

The ones we use today:

Some newly developed:

And finaly: concept TV’s!

This is it! This is where our time journey ends. I bet, 10 years from now the recent concepts will be as funny as old TV’s are nowadays.

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A Home theater PC (HTPC) or media PC is a convergence device that combines the functions of a personal computer and a digital video recorder. It is suitable for connection to a TV or a TV-sized computer display and is often used as a digital photo, music, video player, TV receiver and digital video recorder. The general goal in a HTPC is usually to combine many or all components of a home theater setup into one box.

Here are the reasons for you to switch to Home Theatre PC:

1. You can choose every single part for your HTPC yourself! Everything from case to controlling devices is available for purchasing on the web. So you just have to set the budget, order the part and wait for them to arrive. Or there are always many ready-for-action devices being sold.
2. Unlimited storage! It’s up to you whether a 250Gb drive is sufficient or you want several drives over 1Tb.
3. Play your favorite games on big screen with superb sound! And you don’t have to leave your living room for that!
4. Set any interface! It’s up to you, whether you want your HTPC to run under Windows, Linux, Mac OS or whatever. You can set up any interface which would seem handy for you.
5. Great performance and multiple media functions. Put several TV-tuners into your HTPS if you feel like watching or recording several TV programs at a time.
6. Control it remotely within any distance! Any web-enable device would be enough to control your HTPC media library using web interface. So that you will be able to create a playlist  and make it play even before you reach home.
7. Upgrade your HTPC any time! Add more hard drives or improve its performance by adding RAM or putting a better processor. It’s all like PC.
8. An HTPC will look great in your living room! There are so many cases available, that you can choose one that will be of the same color with your TV, table, carpet or whatever.

There are many guides on the web that would be of a great help for you. Here is the one I consider the best, though it is rather aged.

And once you got your HTPC ready don’t forget to visit our video section, where America funniest videos can be found.

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Elevator Ghost:

Ghost Crying:

Ghost causes a car crash(very scary!):

Silent pantry ghost:

The scariest one!(the guy who shot it was so scared that he even threw up):

Sure, it’s for you to decide, whether these videos true or not. But I swear, this night there WAS something in my house!

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I mean, could you imagine such a thing as iPhone a couple years ago? Sure, we all love science fiction books and movies, but could you imagine holding it, having it for real? Here is a couple of things for you to dream about: 

Video Glasses: Though I’d prefer an eye-integrated extra-high resolution display, this is also OK with me at the moment. These gadgets generally cost $200 to $400. They weigh 2 to 10 ounces, come with their own headphones and plug into portable video devices like iPods, DVD players, video game consoles, video cameras and even some cell phones. The only problem is the resolution of the image these glasses produce is not high enough. Here you can find a pretty aged, still a bit helpful review of top 10 video glasses. And I am looking forward to the newly developed SID:

Sony focused on the following four points: (1) A transmissivity of higher than 80%, which is high enough for use in dark places, (2) a color uniformity of Δu’v’ = 0.009 or lower, which is equivalent to that of TVs, and a luminance of higher than 2000cd/m2, which allows the use of see-through mode outdoors, (3) attaching the optical engine on the lateral side (temple) so that the thickness of the front portion (lens) can be reduced to less than 3mm like normal eyeglasses and (4) a weight of less than 80g to make the display comfortable to be worn for at least two hours.

To achieve these goals, Sony made efforts to simplify the device’s structure. And it adopted the structure and display method that use a holographic waveguide and an optical engine that is composed of an LED light source, a transmissive LCD panel, etc.

The light modulated by the transmissive LCD panel reaches the eyes via the holographic waveguide. The optical engine can be attached on the lateral side (temple) of the eyeglasses.

Holographic TV: Another dream of mine is being able to watch movies in 3D. Not wearing those “3D glasses” with one eye green and the other blue, but having a real-like picture in my living room. According to CNN, this could be real in 2020: 

Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university’s Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.

“This is a prerequisite for any type of moving holographic technology. The way it works presently is not suitable for 3D images,” he said.

The researchers produced displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.

To create television sets the images would need to be changing multiple times each second — but Peyghambarian is very optimistic this can happen.

He said the University of Arizona team, which is now ten-strong, has been working on advancing hologram technology since 1990 — so this is a major step forward. He believes that much of the difficulty in creating a holographic set has now been overcome.

“It took us a while to make that first breakthrough, but as soon as you have the first element of it working the rest often comes more rapidly,” he said. “What we are doing now is trying to make the model better. What we showed is just one color, what we are doing now is trying to use three colors. The original display was four inches by four inches and now we’re going for something at least as big as a computer screen.”

There are no more great barriers to overcome now, he said.

So this is the present state of the future TV-watching technologies. Keep wondering and be creative in your dreams!

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How many hours a day do you spend in front of your old TV set? I bet more than two… Here are the reasons to switch to Internet TV for you:

• The first obvious reason is that it has only ONE damn function: viewing. To save the things you like you have to buy expensive devices and plug them properly.

• The bad and Effing annoying commercials! This only reason eggs me on so much!

• The lack of good channels to choose from. You can find almost anything on the internet in any field that is interesting to you.

• You can easily share videos with your friends on the web by sending a simple link. No need to call them over the phone and tell to hurry up and turn on a channel.

• The ability to discuss videos on the web and let the director and everyone else know what you think. The simple comments on YouTube is the best example.

• Rate the videos you like. Apart from sharing with your friends, you can also rate videos and contribute to the development of internet TV-watching society.

• Save the videos you like for free and make your own ultimate collection! Found something you love? Keep it! You can use CamStudio software which is absolutely free, for example. And moreover, one can easily download YouTube videos using the Firefox extension.

• No more uninformative TV programs! Be informed of everything that is up. The easiest way to find the stuff you are looking for is to use one of the numerous search engines(like Google).

• Start your own web TV channel and become a star yourself! Can you imagine doing this with the help of your old TV set?

• How many channels do you need? And how many does your TV set have? Watch all of them online!

• Crashing will be fun!!

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We all love to watch videos online. Today we have even more opportunities for this. How about watching YouTube videos while queuing at a cafe? It’s so easy at the moment.

But the quality and connection speed also matters. That’s why I consider the iPhone the best existing solution for watching video on the go. But for how long? Apple hardly needs to proceed with iPhone software development.

I would like to present you T-mobile G1, the so-called G-phone. This mobile device is the first Google Android phone. Set to launch on October 22nd for $179 on T-Mobile in the US on a two-year stint, or $399 contract-free. Starting in early November it will also be available in United Kingdom. Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and the Netherlands can expect their release in the first quarter of 2009. The G1 features WiFi and 3G radios, a 3-megapixel camera, and support for the Android Market and Amazon’s mobile MP3 store, giving owners apps and tunes on the go. Here are the specifications listed:

- HSDPA 1700 / 2100 plus Quadband EDGE
- WiFi
- 3D graphics acceleration
- 3Mp camera
- 256 MB integrated storage, 1GB microSD card included
- Android Market for on-device app purchases
- Amazon MP3 app for on-device music purchases
- Push Gmail support with full HTML client
- Bluetooth (but no A2DP)
- Google Maps with Street View
- No Microsoft Exchange support
- No desktop synchronization — it all happens over the air
- 350 minutes talk time over 3G, 406 minutes over GSM
- 402 hours standby over 3G, 319 hours over GSM

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It’s a summer time. The summer season is at its height, and it’s getting harder and harder to concentrate on work and studies. What wonder? All manner of people opt for sea trips, ecotourism, and surfing, rock climbing or just lying on the beach in the sun and while away the time.

Nobody wants to strain every nerve, work hard, stretch the imagination and one’s eyes. Relax! It’s the only reason why the summer time was invented at our consideration, folk! It’s like long-lasting weekends.

Despite the high season, still we are proud to bring you some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video and web TV sphere over the last few weeks. So, what events are in the movement and popular?

• According to daily updatable data on iPhone at TechCrunch, we came to a conclusion that this device has occupied a steady position in the market niche of mobile and web 2.0 worlds. So, for example, iPhone App Store Has Launched (Updated) tells us that there’re lots of app pages available now. Some of them are free, therefore those iPhone users who have 2.0 software, find it interesting to browse and find something useful.

• You know Dailymotion well? By the way, Dailymotion remains largets independent web video site in the world, reports tvover.net. More than 37 mln unique visitors is an impressive figure. With 11 localized sites and 20 local language versions, Dailymotion streams over 860 million videos each month.

• I believe Brightcove isn’t in want of additional advertising. Insidedigitalmedia.com interviewed Adam Berrey, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Brightcove. The discussion was devoted to introduced a new version of the web video delivery service, considered to be more search-friendly and capable of adjusting the screen images for fluctuating bandwidth.

• If you want to know the story of well-known video site full of funny and biting user-generated content, YouTube, Chad Hurley will tell you!

• A research on user-generated content shows that User-generated video will account for 42% of streams this year, but only 4 percent of online video revenue, according to an upcoming study from The Diffusion Group.

• According to webtvwire.com, P2P File Sharing Software Users to be Banned in Europe. Not long ago France government banned TV advertising.

• Lightspeed venture partners adds Four flavors of ad targeting: Geographic, Demographic, Contextual, Behavioral.

• Wow, I happened upon “What are the Benefits of Adding Video to your Blog?”. And you know what I found? Users themselves ask this question. Now wonder, there’re many probloggers who use videos as a graphic example making their bloggs. Don’t know what to say? Express your ideas via videos.

• Contextual Video Advertising: I Am Finally Choosing Which Products To Promote On My Own Videos With The Amazon Your Video Widgets. Amazon has just launched a new monetization tool called Your Video Widgets, which makes it easy for anyone, with an Amazon Associate account, to create a cool-looking embeddable video player in which to integrate a selected video you want alongside specific Amazon products, you choose, overlaid on the clip at your preferred points.

• The post Good Summary of Potential Video Game Monetization Methods by Jay Baage tells us about David Perry, Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim Games, who has identified 29 possible ways to monetize video games. And a tag line is that game industry has to diversify its revenue stream in the face of competition, piracy and the economy.

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