Eisner&#39;s new-media studio rocks out
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Former Walt Disney Co.  chairman Michael Eisner&#39;s new-media studio Vuguru said Tuesday  it is producing its second original series.
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The electronics maker is poised to become the leader in high-definition following the demise of HD DVD.
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The creative software giant illustrates its views on Microsoft, Apple, and Web video.
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If you haven&#39;t already heard, almost everything you see in &quot;Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow&quot; is digitally created.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new.  The idea is simple.  There's a convergence between big screen high-definition televisions, and photography as an Internet based activity. The purpose of this product is to smooth that convergence, to make it easy to set up a connection between the Internet and your television. To allow photography to come into your living room in new, powerful and easy ways. Think of it as the networked living room and you'll understand the vision. Some of the work I've done is technical, some is user interface, and some is working with media organizations to try to create a comfort level, or at least a spirit of Let's Give This A Try. In the latter case, it's much like working with the NY Times to get their news headlines and summaries to flow through Radio's RSS aggregator in 2002. Only this time we're working with photographs, and we think, the best news photographers in the world. And the pictures are beautifully high-def, they look really great when displayed on LCD and plasma screens. I use it with my 52-inch Samsung and 46-inch Sony. Of course what looks great on a wall, also looks great on a 15-inch Macbook or 24-inch iMac.   And while we connect those pros with your TV, it's equally important that we connect your friends and families too. One of the early testers found the pictures that Doc Searls uploads to Flickr a great revelation. Me too. That's because Doc is not only a great photographer, he's also a great story-teller. I find that I can follow the lives of far more friends visually than I can through text messages (which I love to do too!). Viewing great photos on bigscreen TVs, desktops and laptops -- that's one focus, but not the only one.  I wanted to provide a complete two-way tool for people who love Flickr, as I do.  Why Flickr? Well, they've got this great thing called an API. It makes it possible for people like me to make software that runs on a desktop computer that does things like automatically backing up your new photos every night, and providing a drop-folder on your desktop for quick uploads. (It understands tags too, it's incredibly simple.) We also made it easy to post pictures you like to Twitter. Why Twitter? It's that API thing again. They made it easy for us to love them. I wish more network service developers understood how powerful this outstretched hand is.  But that's not all! Not by a long shot. The reason all this will be so familiar to Radio 8 users is that it builds on the same engine, the one that was released as open source in 2004. So I've been working on other tools to drop into this base platform and once we have a good-sized base of people using it for "really simple photos" on the desktop, there will be other tools. And because it's an open platform, other developers can do the same. Not saying they will, but they can.  Anyway, I'm in the last stages, preparing the download site, and a FAQ, and tweaking the installer. One caveat, the first beta release is Mac only. That's because I'm doing all my work on the Mac, and this is a one-man show. Later we will work it out for Windows too, and with a bit more work and a bit more luck, for Linux.  It should be ready before the sun goes down today.
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A new device that costs a couple hundred bucks can turn the home office into a high-definition media center. It's a start anyway, and far less expensive than coughing up for a television setup.
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Moviegoers don&#39;t need to be a sorcerer&#39;s apprentice to see that Pixar has cast a powerful spell over the world of animation.
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French video game  publisher Ubisoft is entering the CGI entertainment business in  a big way, with plans to invest almost $400 million in an  expansion of its production center in Montreal with a goal to  make movies.
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&#147;No other DVD authoring program in the $500 price class is capable of creating such stunning, highly creative DVDs as Apple&#146;s DVD Studio Pro 3,&#148; writes PC Magazine. &#147;For video pros looking to take their productions to the next level, it&#146;s worth a serious look.&#148; [Aug 4]
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A brand is transformed on the silver screen.
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Overture Films is running on a small budget, but looking like a major studio.
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Can the movie studios kill the most promising new DVD format?
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ON the heels of devices such as Sanyo&#39;s Xacti C1 and Panasonic&#39;s D-SNAP, which cut down video camera bulk by writing video to storage cards instead of tape or disc, comes the Everio range from JVC.
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High Fidelity Music Store supports the SLS format to lure digital audiophiles.
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Media Machines, Inc., a leading provider of 3D virtual worlds software and services for the Web, today announced the final release of their new software tools, Flux Player 2.0 and Flux Studio 2.0.
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In a breakthrough agreement, another major movie studio will add its feature films to the iTunes lineup, but this time under unusual and potentially groundbreaking terms. The deal with Fox will be announced at Macworld.
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(InfoWorld) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) will open a testing laboratory Friday for Blu-ray Disc content in Hollywood. The center will verify whether the Blu-ray Disc content of providers like movie studios meets technical specifications and can be played on a range of Blu-ray Disc hardware, the company said. Panasonic said at present there is no way to do this before discs are replicated. The new center will be operated by Panasonic Corp. of North America and located within the existing Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory. Panasonic is one of the major backers of Blu-ray Disc and sits alongside companies like Sony and Samsung Electronics on the committee that sets the format. The number of Blu-ray Disc players in the U.S. grew slowly last year as did those for the rival HD DVD format. However Blu-ray Disc got a boost in November when Sony's PlayStation 3 went on sale.