ViewSonic Delves Into Video Networking
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Send your video throughout your house--wirelessly--with new gateways and media adapters.
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By Stephanie Hoo, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 8--Picture this: A palm-sized video camera that you don't have to be a genius to operate. Or, a gizmo that slings your TV signal to any computer, anywhere.
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A new, low-cost open frame display from Digital View (www.digitalview.com)  offers OEM system developers and integrators a flexible and  cost-effective means of creating non-networked digital signage  solutions.
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RealNetworks launches a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
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Customers will be able to download film clips, audio and video, interactive multiplayer games, multimedia music tracks, &quot;push-to-watch&quot; services, as well as access large e-mail attachments.
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(InfoWorld) - A new application from Raketu CommunicationsÂ aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies. Raketu.tv, which became available in beta mode on Tuesday, delivers IPTV and VOD (video on demand) programming. The social-networking component factors in when using the IPTV or VOD services with Raketu's other communication and entertainment application, which shares the company's name. Raketu, which debuted last September, aims to integrate separate communication and entertainment programs that should be combined into one client, said Raketu CEO Greg Parker. It includes VoIP, instant messaging, and file-sharing. While simultaneously using other applications and Web sites accomplishes the same tasks as Raketu, Parker said that his software eases communicating and information gathering by combining several services into one program. Users no longer have to use multiple programs and Web sites to accomplish the same task that one application provides, said Parker. For example, friends could use Raketu to watch a video on surfing while discussing it via VoIP or instant messaging. The friends could then use a travel search feature in Raketu that locates airfares in an effort to plan a surfing vacation. "We're a bit of YouTube, a bit of MySpace, a bit of Joost, a bit of different social-networking technologies," said Parker. "We feel that we do a better job of integrating these services." Parker also noted that Raketu differs from other p-to-p services like Skype and Joost by not using super nodes, which link multiple computers together to transfer data. "This means you don't use your bandwidth to help other people get content, which means users get a more secure and faster service," said Parker. Media Global Intertainment will provide the IPTV content. As of Tuesday, the service offered five stations, including Cartoon TV and BBC Parliament. VOD content will come from Klikvu.com, which offers shows in categories such as extreme wrestling, soccer, and sports. VOD selections offered four categories as of Tuesday, including action sports and documentary. The VOD offerings are pay-per-view, which is how the media service will generate revenue, according to Parker. Social networking, which permits users to find friends and create and manipulate online content, has increased in popularity with the advent of Web sites such as MySpace.com, which News Corp. purchased for $580 million in 2005, and Google's YouTube video-sharing site. While Internet video is seen as playing a major role in the Web's development, the availability of content is crucial to this service. YouTube has been sorting out charges of copyright violations from entertainment companies whose content users illegally uploaded to the site. Meanwhile, Joost, an IPTV company launched by Skype's founders, announced Tuesday that it entered a deal with Viacom International to offer its television shows and feature films.
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InfoWorld - The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
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ViewSonic, societÃ  californiana leader nella Visual Technology, ha da poco presentato un nuovo videoproiettore DLP. Si chiama ViewSonic PJ755D e promette colori brillanti, immagini dettagliate e una qualitÃ  video eccezionale.
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Ostensibly acknowledging that focusing on its own audio and video formats has become a losing proposition with the near-ubiquity of Flash video, RealNetworks is preparing a new version of its oft-maligned RealPlayer software that support Windows Media, Apple's QuickTime and even Adobe's Flash.
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Videoconferencing tools are increasingly making their way not just into the office but into the home, adding a dimension to long-distance visits with relatives and friends.
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PCS Vision Multimedia streams faster video plus audio channels to Samsung phone.
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BCN Systems&#39; routing architecture will be used to to speed development of converged networks for data, voice, and video. By Networking Pipeline News.
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Those Skype guys are at it again. In a new venture launching this summer, they aim to bring thousands of channels to your computer screen -- without the streaming stuttervision
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High Efficiency codec recommended to network, content providers
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Dell SP2008WFP: 20-inch wide-screen LCD monitor with Webcam
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.
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The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks Inc. to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.