RealDVD ripping software halted by judge
Pending a court decision on Tuesday, RealNetworks has been ordered to stop distributing RealDVD, the DVD ripping software which has Hollywood foaming at the mouth.The Motion Picture Association of America is getting all dramatic and suing RealNetworks for purportedly violating its copyrights and breaching its trust. Awwww, sniff. This, even though RealDVD not only keeps the DVD’s original DRM, but also adds yet another irritating layer of restrictions to it.
Nokia Siemens Dumps on GPON
Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 -- Having decided to pull out of the GPON market, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is now taking very public pot shots at the passive optical access technology, claiming that it's uneconomic to deploy and will be redundant by the time residential fiber access is widely deployed. (See 'Run Away!' Nokia Siemens Retreats From GPON and Nokia Siemens Confirms PON Plans .)
Outlining the company's fixed broadband access strategy in Brussels this week, NSN's chief technical officer Stephan Scholz told journalists and analysts that VDSL2 technology is mature enough to rival GPON in terms of bandwidth capabilities, and that GPON will be an outdated technology by the time fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) becomes a mass market in four or five years' time.
Lightbulbs Could Replace Wi-Fi Hotpsots
Boston University's College of Engineering is launching a program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves. Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create "Smart Lighting" that would be faster and more secure than current network technology.
This initiative aims to develop an optical communication technology that would make an LED light the equivalent of a Wi-Fi access point."Imagine if your computer, iPhone, TV, radio and thermostat could all communicate with you when you walked in a room just by flipping the wall light switch and without the usual cluster of wires," said BU Engineering Professor Thomas Little. "This could be done with an LED-based communications network that also provides light - all over existing power lines with low power consumption, high reliability and no electromagnetic interference. Ultimately, the system is expected to be applicable from existing illumination devices, like swapping light bulbs for LEDs."
Fox News Launches Election YouTube Channel
Fox News launched a dedicated YouTube channel, Fox News Election Headquarters, providing extensive video coverage of the presidential election. The channel will feature clips from Fox news shows, reports from embedded producers and content from The Strategy Room, Fox News’ online political talk show.FNC will be responsible for selling ads on the channel, which will be promoted on the network and its web properties. The network will launch dedicated channels for Fox News and Fox Business Network in the coming weeks
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eMarketer, which has been putting out good research on online video recently, back in August chopped its estimate for 2008 U.S. video ad revenue by more than half, to $505 million from $1.3 billion. That’s a pretty significant downgrade more than halfway into the year, though eMarketer warned it was “more a change of methodology than of perspective.” But even with the methodology revision, eMarketer is forecasting growth to start declining after 2012.
Apple's encounter with citizen journalism
It's not the first--and probably not the last--time that an unverified Apple rumor has made its way online and impacted the stock market (in this case, temporarily).
Vloggerheads heading up the video blog movement
Saying your piece with the written word is so 20th century. These days, it’s all about video blogging (or vlogging, for those in the know) if you want to express yourself. Or at least that’s how it is on VloggerHeads, the social network for video bloggers!
TNS Surrenders To WPP Group, Tells Shareholders To Accept The $2 Billion Deal
After months of repeatedly rebuffing WPP Group's $2 billion (£1.14 billion) takeover bid, media measurement firm TNS is now telling its shareholders to approve the deal, Reuters reports. WPP made the offer back in July, two months after TNS and its German rival, media audience monitor GfK, announced plans to merge, creating the world's second largest audience measurement firm after Nielsen.
More Publishers Embrace Tremor Media's Acudeo Video Monetization Platform
Web Movies Ready for Prime Time
Using the Internet to deliver movies to the living-room TV took another step closer to mass-market reality last week. With Vudu and Netflix having made significant improvements to their online offerings, both could now be more competitive with the video-on-demand services offered by cable operators, as well as the long-established home-video business of renting movies on optical discs.
TV's Next Dimension
With television makers including Samsung and Panasonic this year unveiling flat-screen sets that are capable of displaying 3-D content, the format is widely considered the next leap forward in TV technology. So far, 3-D programming has been about stunts and gimmicks rather than an earnest play to engage viewers on a deeper level. With growing competition from other media, however, it may be time for the television industry to push forward with 3-D.
Sony Inks Digital Cinema Deployment Deals With 3 Studios
Sony announced this week that it has signed agreements with three Hollywood movie studios to help support the rollout of Sony digital cinema projection systems in movie theaters.
Fierce 15 Online Video Movers and Shakers - FierceOnlineVideo
FierceOnlineVideo is pleased to announce the Fierce 15 "Online Video Movers and Shakers.
Content:
EQAL
Funny or Die
Video Tools and Ad networks
Pando Networks
EveryZing
Move Networks
YuMe
White-label Distribution Services
Brightcove
KickApps
Fliqz
Content Aggregators
Hulu
Veoh Networks
Metacafe
Mevio
