Logitech Brings 1080p HD To Home Video Conferencing With New Webcam
Logitech is announcing today a new webcam that allows up to 1080p video conferencing when used in conjunction with the compatible software. The Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 will also be able to do 15MP still images with one-touch uploads to social networks. “People are increasingly relying on video calling to maintain far flung connections,” said ...
Putting Raystream To The Test, Does it Stand Up to Its Claims?
A while back, I wrote about Raystream's new technology that is set to revolutionize the online video industry, or is it? I sent them a 271MB video file and asked them to do that voodoo that they do to it and send it back. Might the stuff they sent back surprise everyone that reads this, ...
Introducing Dailymotion Cloud Video Delivery Business
Dailymotion is expanding outside of the curated content business and into the cloud-based online video serving business and why not? After all, everyone else is doing it too no? Alright, not everyone.
What Influence Did Steve Jobs Have On Web Video? Industry Professionals Speak
In my previous post I made a list of what I thought to be the top video innovations of both Steve Jobs and Apple. However right away one of our readers had reminded me of a few good ones I completely overlooked. So rather than rely on the limits of my own memory, I have ...
Adobe Air 3 & Flash Player 11 Bring Big Video Updates
Adobe Air 3 and Flash 11 are set to bring 3D graphics to gaming (which I wrote up at GDN: Adobe Platforms Will Now have 3D Gaming Potential), but there is more to it than that. There are also some interesting video performance expansions and boosters in all this.
WeVideo Brings Cloud-Powered, Collaborative Video Editing To Almost Any Device
I have known about WeVideo for a couple weeks now and have been bursting to tell you all about it. I mean really, when something this cool comes along, embargoes get in the way of my enthusiasm. I did mention a brief bullet point or two to a couple people and now I can let ...
YouTube WebM Transcoding Complete for 30% of Videos Which Make up 99% of Views
Some sites are reporting that WebM is the most used format at YouTube, but that's not exactly what the blog post says. It says that they have finished transcoding the most viewed videos to WebM and all new uploads are automatically transcoded to it. It's all in the wording... and the reading comprehension.
Iomega HD Streaming ScreenPlay DX Media Players
Iomega wants to be your media player of choice. You know Iomega right? Zip Disks? Yep, that was them. Now they have unveiled plans to launch an updated series of video streaming boxes which can do full 1080p HD for the home called the ScreenPlay DX HD Media Players which will come in three flavors ...
What's The Optimal Bitrate for Encoding YouTube Uploads?
Almost every day I upload an HD video to one of my YouTube channels, whether it be a vlog, Q&A video, a skit or something else. I really enjoy almost everything about YouTube: the community interaction, editing, the creative outlet it provides, even the weird looks I get when vlogging in public! But the thing ...
Adobe Flash 10.2 Said to be 34% More Efficient, Includes H.264 Hardware Acceleration
Adobe recently announced features for the new 10.2 Flash. Among the claims are 34% more efficient, inclusion of the H.264 codec and support for more mobile devices and platforms. Also, and this seems to be the way the whole industry is going, they have included hardware acceleration to help deliver HD in with less problems ...
HTML5 Video Codec War Explodes as MPEG-LA Openly Calls for VP8 Patent Claims
The HTML5 video codec war just exploded! MPEG-LA, who you will remember holds the H.264 patent pool, just invaded Googlonia with a call for patent claims on the VP8 video codec. You will remember that Apple is a member of the H.264 owners, along with Microsoft. You might also recall that there have been some ...
Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA
Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one thing they forget to mention, was that they stand to ...
Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues
My last post described, what Google's decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs. It's been almost two weeks now since Google made that ...
Google Chrome To Drop H264 - How Will This Affect You?
Just when it appeared that the online video industry was moving toward a video standard, with H.264 video playback in HTML5 – more chaos ensued with Google's announcement of its plans to phase out support for H.264 in its Chrome browser, in favor of open source formats like its own WebM or Theora. Like shot ...
In-depth Review of ButoTV Video Platform: Interactivity Meets Simplicity
Online video platforms (OVPs) are springing up all over the place. It's like the Dawn of Web 2.0 all over again and Buto.tv (prounounced boo-toe I think) is getting in on it as well (and have been for some time). However, they might be taking a slightly different approach than many of the others. I ...
