So, you’ve got a blog, you want a quick and painless way to upload video and have people watch it without having to download a player or do anything special. I still haven’t figured out how to make that happen painlessly. Strocel.com is getting the WordPress 2.0 upgrade tonight, we’ll see if that helps. But here is a good rundown of the top video-sharing websites.
Techcrunch, an excellent blog that tracks all kinds of new and wonderful web applications, has recently talked about the booming world of online video hosting solutions. Some of these services have gone beyond the usual video hosting, and allow you to actually edit clips online. The idea is that you can collaborate on an edit with other people, sort of an “edit that party video by committee” system.
Here’s another example of how the regular television is starting to disappear. We’ll either be watching on screens that are really big, or in this case screens that are really small.
From the Article…
“Japan began to watch digital television broadcasts on mobile telephones, in a highly anticipated service that could lead to a new genre of TV programs. Handsets have been on the market for several weeks that are equipped with the service, which can also broadcast programs onto laptop computers, high-end video-game machines & more.”
NDTV – New Dehli Television in India has now gone into a joint venture with General Electric to get into
the television post-production business. The main business they will be in to begin with is digital archiving, where tape libraries are being logged and digitized for online access. Are we going to see news edited offshore in the near future?
Here’s something interesting, cable companies are looking at a system to allow subscribers to record shows on servers back at the plant, instead of on a home box. Even if they record every show once for multiple subs, think of the storage space required to yank this off. Anybody got a spare hard drive?