“Last week I had the pleasure of joining some of the Google team at their Los Angeles Venice office as VidCaster prepares a beta of a Google TV app for our users. I thought most of the dev session would be dedicated to the particulars of Google TV (more on that in a later post), but much to my surprise there was a great deal of new info about the evolution of video search in general including some brand new documentation from Google on the subject of video search.”
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This week the Google owned video giant opened shop in a repurposed aircraft hangar on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The 41,000-square-foot YouTube Space LA has sound stages, editing bays, a recording studio and green-screen rooms used to create special effects.
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“Just announced today at Streaming Media West in Los Angeles, here are the winners of this year’s Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards. We had more than 58,000 votes cast for more than 350 products, services, and companies in a total of 24 categories. You can see the finalists—the top three vote-getters—in each category in our article from last week.”
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“TopFloor, a startup born out of Los Angeles’ Science Inc. incubator, is set to make its public debut today.
The company, co-founded by Science’s Michael Jones and Brian Lee, has built a video-driven e-commerce platform that allows brands, retailers, and any celebrity or ‘influencer’ to sell directly to their social followings and receive proceeds when the people they refer purchase items.”
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“In a significant bet that a technology company can compete with Hollywood to produce original video content, Microsoft Corp. has hired Nancy Tellem, the longtime entertainment president of the CBS network, to run a new production studio in Los Angeles.”
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“Perhaps the biggest splash in the early going of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles was made by Microsoft with its unveiling of Xbox SmartGlass.
There are other products that do similar things — from Apple’s AirPlay, which streams content from an iPhone or iPad to your TV, to apps such as HBO Go that provide bonus content to enhance TV shows and movies.
But, at least as Microsoft describes it, SmartGlass will pull lots of those features together into one app as well as take them further.
Yes, you can start watching a show on your tablet or phone, then send it to your TV or vice versa. But they say the app also will recognize TV shows or movies you were watching through an Xbox device and automatically serve up that content without you having to look for it.”
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”Wednesday, a federal court judge in New York granted Dish Network’s request for a temporary restraining order preventing Fox and other networks from trying to advance their claims against the satellite television provider in lawsuits that were separately filed last week in Los Angeles.
Dish, which had filed its own suit hours earlier in New York, asked that the networks be prevented from separately pursuing their litigation in California until U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain decides whether all of the court cases should be consolidated.”
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“Panasonic announced that it is teaming with Aframe to create the Panasonic Production Network (PPN), a cloud video production network that allows professionals to rapidly upload and view their high-quality video from dedicated cloud servers.
Based in London with U.S. headquarters in Boston, Aframe’s cloud video production solutions have been providing services to the BBC, MTV, and award-winning production firms in Europe and the U.S. since 2009. In early April Aframe established operations in New York, Los Angeles and Boston to better meet the video production industry’s transformational shift to cloud computing and away from on-premises solutions.”
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“Drawing on a national online survey of more than 2,500 people ages 8-54 as well as qualitative, in-depth interviews with dedicated tablet users in New York and Los Angeles, “Tapping into Tabletomics” found that, in just a few years, tablets have risen to second-screen prominence for full-length TV (FLTV) show viewing, ahead of computers. Out of total time spent watching FLTV shows, 15% of viewing occurs on tablets.”
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“Video creators that want their work to play on Apple iOS devices need to know a little about the H.264 codec and about Baseline and High profiles. For those just starting out, StreamingMedia.com contributor Jan Ozer addressed the subject at the recent HTML5 Video Summit in Los Angeles.”
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