“Netflix just launched a new video player for web-based viewing, and it’s hot: Viewers can preview all other episodes while watching an episode of a TV show, the player allows seamless size changes and the overall design is much slicker than before”.
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“Time Warner Cable and Viacom announced a deal Wednesday that will provide Nick, MTV and other networks to the MSO’s TWC TV service for watching live TV on tablets, smartphones and PCs in the home, ending the companies’ yearlong legal fight.”
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“Cloud-based video encoding service Encoding.com scored a big customer win this week, announcing it had landed Internet TV network Revision3′s encoding work.”
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“Technique could change the way consumers find, watch and share videos
After a five-year application process, online video publishing and distribution platform WellcomeMat has been awarded a U.S. patent for the process it uses to chapter videos — a technique the company expects will revolutionize the way consumers find, watch and share videos.
The patent — which covers the use of cue points to build video montages — has been assigned to WellcomeMat.”
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“As the cloud begins to play a bigger role in video workflows, companies large and small have questions about working effectively with cloud systems. Providing answers were representatives from Zencoder, Haivision, and Front Porch Digital; the three took part in a webinar hosted by StreamingMedia.com that offered best practices for transcoding and video workflow in the cloud.”
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“Ever-increasing bandwidth, processor speed, and storage capabilities will revolutionize video in the next few years, Louderback says at Streaming Media East…”
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“When we first learned LG would be launching its crop of Google TV sets this month, I asked “will anyone care?” — now after seeing LG’s G2 series in action, I’m surprised to report that plenty of consumers just may.
With slick motion control technology and a speedy dual-core CPU, LG’s G2 sets are certainly the most powerful Google TV devices so far. LG also has the privilege of offering the first 3D-capable Google TVs. Even better, the sets are passive 3D, so you can use cheaper plastic 3D glasses instead of the expensive rechargeable variety.”
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“Microsoft is planning to launch an ambitious plan in the next month to revamp advertising: television that watches you watching it.
Interactive NUads advertisements tied to the Kinect sensor will roll out in late spring, Microsoft tells CNET.
The goal of NUads is to convince people to stop using their DVR to skip or fast-forward through ads by using the Kinect sensor for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console and Windows PCs to make ads far more interactive.”
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“Sir Richard Branson has backed a British video start-up that aims to improve technology allowing web users to add text to videos.
Sir Richard, awarded the company £750, said that he wanted to use Codoc’s technology across several Virgin web properties and would keep working with the business, but did not take any equity in it.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/mvpx-vid/p/1740893982/codoc-layered-web-video-video
http://vimeo.com/codoc/manifesto
Website: http://www.codoc.org
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“RAMP’s unique intellectual property for time-coded metadata creation and application now protected by 31 issued and pending patents.
Patent 7,801,910, a Method and Apparatus for Timed Tagging of Media Content, covers a method of associating tags with times in media content, which can be used to created a timed segment index of those tags. This patent supports core RAMP product features such as identifying segments of a video episode enabling users to ‘Jump-To’ specific moments within that video.
Patent 8,001,066, a System and Methods for improving speech recognition results via user-augmentation of a database using user feedback to improve speech model training for multimedia content. This patent covers RAMP’s ability to further extend its leadership position in the automated transcription of audio and video content.”
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