There’s been lots of drastic and breathtaking news in the online video, game and web television sphere over the last few weeks. And if you really want to learn a lot of new things you are in the right way.
Webware: VoiceThread adds video doodling. Group conversation service VoiceThread (review) has a great new feature called Video Doodling, which as you can guess, lets users draw on top of video clips on the fly. The technology, formally called a Telestrator, is best known for its usage in football games by John Madden.
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- SyncTV Has A New Subscription Plan For Unlimited Premium TV Episode
Downloads. SyncTV is a new TV download service running in private beta, that will offer users access to premium television channels on a per-channel subscription basis rather than the per-episode or per-season methods currently in use among popular video services such as iTunes and Amazon Unbox.
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- Online video advertising takeaways. The four panelists were all CEOs of video ad networks. Jayant Kadambi of YuMe, Tod Sacerdoti of Brightroll, Matt Sanchez of VideoEgg and Matt Wasserlauf of Broadband Enterprises did a great job of discussing some of the challenges and opportunities in the industry.
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- Study: Web Will Slow by 2010. If you have a fast broadband Internet connection,
enjoy it while it’s still fast. According to a study by Nemertes Research, video and interactive web sites will begin to overwhelm Internet service providers as early as 2010.
- Moola Opens “Massively Multiplayer Rewards Game” to Public. Moola has been operating an invite-only beta for a little over 18 months and will on Friday open their site to the public (they’ll be officially launching at the TechCrunch Meetup in Boston). Moola has created a multiplayer online game network in which people compete head-to-head for real money. That’s nothing new, but Moola’s hook is that the site is completely free.
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- Controvery on Promotional Online Videos.
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- Could Pioneer’s SyncTV Service Hit All the Right Buttons? SyncTV won’t be
ready until January and hasn’t yet disclosed which content partners it has lined up. The biggest question is what video content will SyncTV offer?
- Online Video Ads: Relatively Less Annoying. At OMMA Video, Dynamic Logic’s Research Director, Kara Manatt, released the results of a study on consumers’ responses to various online advertising, MediaPost reports. In a survey of a representative cross-section of 950 Americans, participants were asked about their views of various online advertising media.
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- Women Command Higher Ad Dollars Around Online Video. Women viewers, from ages 18-34, are highly desirable to marketers and get higher advertising rates then men in the same age group.
- VideoEgg Hatches Ad Platform for Publishers. VideoEgg, the pioneering video sharing site which has raised $30 million including the most recent round of $15 million, has signed agreements with major publishers to power online video advertising operations and sales, Beet.TV has learned.
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NeoEdge: For Casual Gaming, Ads Are Better Than A Price Tag. Casual gaming is a big business. A video games analyst at IDC, Schelley Olhava, estimated 2.6 million casual games were purchased ($52.7 million) last year. But in game advertising firm NeoEdge says they can triple the revenue of these games by serving ads instead of charging. Their rich media ads are served as pre-roll, post-roll, or interstitial advertisements in games. Today they’ve taken the system, Neo ARM, out of private beta and opened it to all developers.
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- Online Video Advertising Made Easy - Create, Buy And Sell Video Ads Online
With Aditall. Aditall provides an online marketplace for creating and selling, or buying and customizing inexpensive video advertising for the web. Video advertising is one way of making your message stand out on the web, and has now even been included within the ad units offered by the popular Google Adsense service.
- Social Networking Meets Video Microblogging On Seesmic Upcoming Platform. Seesmic, the new video communication platform being setup right now in San Francisco by Loic LeMeur, (presently open only to a limited group of invited beta users) is the first one that hints at pushing the envelope of video publishing and microblogging by creating a social networking system where video is the main route to get in touch with each other.
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- Sony BMG Music and Yahoo Extend VoD Relationship. Yahoo has signed an agreement with Sony BMG to extend its video-on-demand license. In addition to expanding the existing relationship into additional territories around the world, the new worldwide deal adds a broad array of additional Sony BMG music videos to the Yahoo! Music catalog.
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- TriviaOnNet: Online Mutli-player Trivia Games. Trivia questions/quizzes come from variety of categories, so you can either enter games in your own subject, or challenge your skills on unknown grounds.
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- Russian Site ZML.com Offering $2.99 Movie Downloads. A Russian website called ZML.com has begun offering unprotected downloads of Hollywood movies for about $2.99 each, The Register reported.
- NBC Acquires “Quarterlife” Web Series; TV Series in Works. “Quarterlife,” an online series airing on MySpace that has its own social network, and plans to turn it into an hourlong TV drama that will likely premiere in February, The New York Times reported.
And it should be mentioned some articles concerning HDTV (High Definition Television) that plays a special part in digital television broadcasting system development.
Allison Moore writes about The Holiday’s 50 Hottest Shows in HDTV!
Jan Harris informs that BBC Trust approves HD channel plans
Hdtvmagazine says that DIRECTV Offers to Install HD in the New International Space Station Module
buyinghdtv reports DTV Not a Concern for 22% of Analog TV Owners
hdtvpage raises the issue What’s Next for HDTV?
hdtvorigin informs about XstreamHD Full HDTV
bloghdtv tells us that HDTV technology improves surgery
CNET reports deplorable statistical data HDTV’s turning Americans into couch potatoes
gadgets.qj.net says that Verizon FiOS TV to increase channel count, new HD DVR features
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