YOUTUBE
YouTube
has been credited with sparking a new media revolution. Users
are now in control of what they want to watch and when they
want to watch it.
TRAVEL
Travel operators are finding it a handy place to post videos
that show their work in the field. Example: Flinders
Range - Bookabee Tours
HISTORY
Google bought out YouTube in November 2006 for 2.2 billion
USD. The YouTube site has enjoyed record numbers in 2006. In
July the site was showing more than 100 million clips daily
and 20 new million visitors were coming to the site each month.
In 2006 YouTube accounted for about 60 percent of all videos
watched online, outweighing the combined numbers for Yahoo Video,
Google Video, Mustache and AOL Media.
Online recommendations have been the driving force for the rapid
growth. Top-rated amateur videos have garnered up to 36 million
hits.
Copyright - YouTube limits single video files to 10 minutes,
which prevents posting of complete movies or TV episodes. The
company will also remove posts on request from the copyright
holder. It is also seeking out collaborative relationships with
content providers.
Technology - YouTube uses Macromedia Flash Player 8 which had
a major leap in in video quality combined with a smaller download.
Combined with faster download speeds on broadband, the innovations
allowed more nearly instant video of online video.
EXAMPLES
World
Travel Directory Videos
Cat
herders
Colbert
Report - Comedy Central
Lucy
In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner/Google Video
South
American Videos
Gingerbread
Man Haka
SPANISH
Combaten
el calentamiento global Español
Privilegio
de Mandar Español
HEADLINES
Joost
the ticket for Skype TV service - Times Online
PORTALS
Big Picture
TV
Google Video
Yahoo Video
YouTube
PROGRAMMING
ESPN
Deportes
ESPN
Latin America - Wikipedia
ONLINE VIEWING
Download
helper
Sopcast
DVDs
iDVD
(Mac)
iDVD
Hot Tips - Apple
SELLING DVDS
Appiko
DISTRIBUTION
For those addicted to instant gratification, online distribution
makes the most sense.
Viewers have long been able to order a movie online and have
it delivered to their home, but now viewers can download directly
to a computer and from there to the TV via a cable or a set-top
box. The video store may be redundant in just a few years, when
downloading will be the normal way to get movies.
BROADCAST STANDARDS
Most countries use one of three video broadcast standards,
NTSC,
PAL
and SECAM.
However, each standard is incompatible with the other. For example,
a video recording made in the UK could not be played on US standard
VCR's or shown on the TV. The reason for this is that the UK
Video Standard is PAL whereas the US Video Standard is NTSC.
All digital video formats, including DVD are still based on
the PAL or NTSC video systems.
NTSC is the analog television system in use in Canada, Japan,
South Korea, the Philippines, the United States, and some other
countries.
Examples:
AUSTRALIA - PAL, Electricity - 240 50HZ, DVD
Region - 4
SOUTH AFRICA - PAL, Electricity - 230 50HZ, DVD Region
-2
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - NTSC, Electricity - 240 50HZ, DVD
Region - 1
EQUATOR
Equator
Keep it
green - Equator
TRAVEL
Travel
Videos - Dominic Hamilton
Share
video - Travelmole
TV PROGRAMS
Television
without pity
TV.com
VIDEO SOFTWARE
Quicktime
iMovie
Final Cut
ADVERTISING
Microsoft has produced a clever two-minute commercial
about the relationship between an advertiser and a consumer.
The woman makes a painful announcement: she wants a divorce.
In the course of their conversation she makes it clear to him
why she is leaving him. And he makes it very clear that he doesn't
have an empathic bone in his body. At the end of the movie the
woman walks away disappointed but determined. The advertiser
stays behind alone.
The producers have created their own website (and blog) to
solicit viewer feedback. Check out Bring
the love back.
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