Video Technology – Our look at streaming video technology, both today and in the future. You’ll read about online video and mobile video – production, video publishing technologies, streaming video delivery technology, etc… etc…
GetHired.com has officially launched and gives job candidates a way to show themselves off to potential employers with the power of online video resumes. It's no big surprise but it is definitely an interesting use of online video. Online video is all the rage, we even had our own awards ceremony at CES for original ...
Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State ...
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to ...
HTML5 is the future of video. Probably. Or if not HTML5, its successors. It seems that the whole web has rallied behind the desire to get rid of third-party plugins - especially closed plugins like Flash. And so every major new web browser now supports native video playback via a <video> tag. Given this climate, ...
And you all thought that Verizon was just aiming to cover its own customers and network with content? Well, apparently we were all wrong. It seems that they've dropped a pretty large penny, $370M worth of them in fact, in working out a streaming video content delivery system and video ad platform that will reach ...
It's CES people and time to bring the RAIN! As in a downpour of awesome announcements on cool new tech, services and everything connected. What's been the big thing so far for me? Well the Sony press conference promised one login for everything and that my friends, is the holy grail of attention getters in ...
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 ...
Over the past few months, we have followed a couple of exciting new video applications for Popcorn.js, an HTML 5 framework for video. It was introduced essentially through Wired in October, where documentary filmmakers were able to add interactive links in their films to provide more information while viewers watched. One movie in particular, One ...
In many ways, 2011 was the year of the tablet, while social TV and online video partnerships enjoyed a robust twelve months as well. Looking ahead to 2012, keep an eye out for standards in tablet measurement, advanced online video deals in measurement, and an increased use of social TV for Web TV discovery. For ...
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, ...
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.
Unlike, well, pretty much everyone, I have had a WHDI device in my house for much of the year. What is it? WHDI is wireless HD video streaming and it is brilliant. Now I've been in contact with the Wireless Home Digital Interface people for quite some time, since CES maybe in January. Admittedly, the ...
It fell to me to do a video gadgetry gift guide. Since I dabble in all things consumer electronics, I figured, why not? I'm going to break it up into price ranges because some of us aren't millionaires but we all have video gadget needs, right? Heck, I'd probably be happy to receive most of ...
I get all sorts of fascinating stuff in my inbox. Granted, a lot of it doesn't quite fit into the coverage area here. Then again, a lot does, like this interesting bit of news I got from Playkast. It seems the TV auditions are now going online and social. It makes sense to me. Who ...
It was only a matter of time before Film Riot's Ryan Connolly put in his two cents on the two newest competing cameras, the Canon C300 and RED Scarlet. He was hesitant to do it, mainly because he hasn't had a chance to test-drive either camera, but there was enough interest to know what he ...
