Online Video & Web TV News Roundup: April Edition
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.
The most disturbing events, I guess, are about China and the Olympic games. European countries together with the rest of the world will never come to a positive agreement for side pieces. It’s a pity.
Out of sight, presidential election and the electorate’s preferences have also become surprising for me. The USA people are in a mess at the moment. On the one hand, this patriarchal community can’t vote for a woman. On the other hand, Afro-Americans have also been out of favor for a long time. Funny thing is that Americans are in a dilemma.
It would be nice to vote for a future president online. At least be happy to have an opportunity to suggest your opinion, because in a number of countries it’s a rarity. GetMyVote presents a service due to which everyone has given a place to upload video, audio and text files that are directed at the candidates. The site offers users ways to interact with the commentaries by leaving comments, rating commentaries, tagging commentaries, and recommending commentaries.
By the way, one of the first online video services started uploading candidates’ speeches, YouTube, is now seeing 10 hours of video uploaded every minute. Owing to this user-generated content web-site Google made some more extra money. Sure thing, to be more competitive and spectacular on the web, Google decided to improve video quality on YouTube.
According to webtvwire.com, YouTube video integrated in to Google maps allowing companies to advertise on the web. First of all, it was done for businesses in the USA. This feature, which at first glance may not seem very important, could help many small companies to build their business using the power of the Web.
Talking about better and the best video quality, I can’t turn a deaf ear to pixel aspect ratio basics, explained on dvguru.com. Sitting at home and watching movies on a widescreen, willy-nilly one starts comparing video on TV and on computers, and camcorders. Learning the differences between formats will give you a better understanding of exactly how video is displayed.
And again scientists and statisticians bring us figures and facts about ourselves and our habits to watch videos. Do they really anxious of that or they have nothing to do? At the same time, it’s interesting to know in February Americans watched 10 billion online videos. And every year we spend more and more time watching videos (an average of 16 minutes and 12 seconds for the week ending April 12, 2008 as compared to 15 minutes and 14 seconds during the same week last year).
There are many talks about user-generated content all around the web. And it’s no by accident. Experts and analysts couldn’t have expressed the one opinion on user-generated content and its pros and cons. According to emarketer.com, the number of user-generated content creators will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012.
Record and upload your own video, share it with the rest of the world, cause you’re not alone.
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