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Fuel TV Moves To Launch High-Definition Video

Today, Move Networks announced a partnership with Fuel TV, the 24/7 action sports lifestyle network, in which Move Networks will provide Fuel TV with its HD streaming video player.  The player debuts on Fuel TV's website with HD versions of "The Great Ride Open.” This ...

Youtube Gets Bigger - Goes All 16:9 Aspect Ratio Widescreen

As somewhat of a surprise to users, video sharing giant Youtube announced yesterday on their blog that they decided to upgrade the previous player to a new wide-aspect 16:9 ratio video player as the default player on Youtube.  Finally Youtube is joining the ranks of ...

Youtube Videos In High-Defintion? Hack Youtube for HD Video Playback

Boy was I happy to find out about this....  If you remember our Online Video Predictions for 2008 post from last year, our first was... "1) HD High-definition Video - I expect Youtube and others to follow suite with the sites that already support High ...

What Is Real High-Definition Video? - Online HD Video Overview

High-Definition is the "new" way to watch video, but how do you know if what you're downloading is truly high-definition or not? Well, first we need to look at what HD actually is.

High-Definition Camcorder From Flip Video Under $250 USD

The maker of Flip Video, the best-selling family of affordable and simple-to-use digital camcorders today introduced its latest breakthrough product: the Flip MinoHD. The world's smallest high definition camcorder at just over three oz., this remarkably slim camcorder makes capturing and sharing HD video easy ...

MediaMelon Launches New Video Overlay Network (VON)

Even thought HD video is still a ways off in terms of being available to the masses online, strong progress has been made recently by some companies with a goal of efficiently delivering HD video via IP networks to millions of consumers.   MediaMelon is ...

BitGravity Launches An API for High-Definition Web Video

BitGravity, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for interactive broadcasting, today announced the new release of its patent-pending Advanced Progressive(TM) application programming interface (API), which provides extensive control over progressive downloads within Flash. This new API enables developers to inject advertising, ...

Upload AVCHD Video With Motionbox

Back in March, Motionbox announced support for high-definition video for its premium users.  Just the other day, Motionbox announced that they now offer video tools that will support the direct upload and editing of native high-definition AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) formatted video. As ...

Video Tutorial - Using High-Definition Video With Adboe Flash Professional CS3

Here is a great video tutorial from Layer's Magazine regarding how to create a web page with HD video (high-definition) using Flash CS3 Professional.  In addition to the video below, you can create your own project and follow along with the tutorial as they have ...

Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video

Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world's biggest events in recent months. Silverlight – Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform solution for delivering rich interactive applications and content experiences on the Web – helped viewers experience both the Olympic Games ...

iPhone Currently Handles 1080P High-Definition HD Video

According to Gizmodo, "a friend in the industry" has notified them that the iPhone currently can handle1080P HD video.  Clearly with the iPhone screen being the size that it is, HD doesn't quite make a ton of sense. However, there is information surfacing that indicates ...

80% of Internet PCs Are Ready for HD Video

Just last week,  Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced on his blog the newest Flash Player penetration stats. According to the updated penetration stats, 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115.  As you may already know, the ...

HD Video Editing Platform for Adobe Premiere Pro

MainConcept AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc., and one of the world's leading providers of video and audio codecs and software development kits (SDK) to the broadcast, film and consumer markets, today announced the release of the updated MainConcept™ MPEG Pro™ HD 3.2 Plug-In ...

75% of Leading Broadcasters Plan To Go HD By 2010

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it is witnessing a trend toward higher definition (HD) video online. Akamai, working closely with market intelligence firm Broadband Directions, recently conducted a survey of leading broadcast ...

Comcast Degrades HD Video Quality To Pack Channels

High-definition television provides a crystal clear viewing experience, free from artifacts and with noticeably better quality than standard-definition television... right? Not so fast. Turns out Comcast and other providers of so-called high-def TV are intentionally compressing the video stream on many of their channels, sometimes ...