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Online video is making a breakthrough.

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

g World Travel Directory Videos
b Cat herders
b Colbert Report - Comedy Central
b Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner/Google Video
b South American Videos
b Gingerbread Man Haka

SPANISH

b Combaten el calentamiento global Español
b Privilegio de Mandar Español

HEADLINES

b Joost the ticket for Skype TV service - Times Online

PORTALS

b Big Picture TV
b Google Video
b Yahoo Video
b YouTube

PROGRAMMING

b ESPN Deportes
b ESPN Latin America - Wikipedia

ONLINE VIEWING

b Download helper
b Sopcast

DVDs

g iDVD (Mac)
b iDVD Hot Tips - Apple

SELLING DVDS

b 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

b Equator
b Keep it green - Equator

TRAVEL

b Travel Videos - Dominic Hamilton
b Share video - Travelmole

TV PROGRAMS

b Television without pity
b TV.com

VIDEO SOFTWARE

b Quicktime
b iMovie
b 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.


AUTHOR

Ron Mader is the Latin America correspondent for Transitions Abroad and host of the award-winning Planeta.com website.


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