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With inexpensive cameras everywhere, including increasingly in cell phones, we're seeing more searing images than ever of human drama. The chances of getting poignant amateur video, meanwhile, are improving radically.
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Acadamy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman is being backed by Intel Corp. on a venture to distribute movies online over broadband Internet. The aim is to release films through the Internet before they are available on DVD, to beat DVD pirates at their own game. The new company called ClickStar Inc. was created through Freeman's Revelations Entertainment company with Click Star co-founder /producer Lori McCreary and ClickStar CEO Nizar Allibhoy.
Morgan Freeman says, "We're going to bypass what the music industry had to come up with, and that's to get ahead of the whole piracy thing."
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From The New York Times
"I live in Mississippi in a very small town," he said in a phone interview. "In order for me to see a first-run movie, I have to drive a couple of hours at a high rate of speed. For me, and many consumers like me, this will be a godsend. I will be able to get premium content safely and cheaply."He added that the distribution windows are no longer meaningful because of online piracy and bootleg DVD's. "DVD's are already available in China and in Russia even before they are released for sale here," Mr. Freeman said.
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If you've ever dreamed of creating your own video broadcast channel, or sharing your favorite video content on your website, the Participatory Culture Foundation has developed a set of free tools to make it a reality. Broadcast Machine is a software that lets anyone with a website publish fullscreen video to at virtually no bandwidth cost! DTV is a desktop video player that allows you to subscribe to channels, download, and watch videos of choice.
Together, Broadcast Machine and DTV offer an amazing opportunity for anyone wanting to create, distribute, and watch video content via broadband Internet connection. This revolutionary service levels the playing field for aspiring videographers and future independent "TV" personalities.
From Participatory Culture Foundation:
Announcing a new platform for internet television and video. Anyone will be able to broadcast full-screen video to thousands of people at virtually no cost, using BitTorrent technology. Viewers get intuitive, elegant software to subscribe to channels, watch video, and organize their video library. The project is non-profit, open source, and built on open standards.
more | Participatory Culture Foundation
Listen to the excellent Gear Live Podcast interview with PCF's Tiffiniy Cheng, by GearLive's Editor-in-chief, Andru Edwards.
For more on Personal Media read Our Media story.
Wired Magazine has a great piece called "Wired Test" that takes a close look at some gear you might be using this summer. Cool gadgets and stuff for mobile media entertainment, hiking & camping, gps, sports, and even cooking. You know, things to help you get the best out of that precious leisure time.
More than 75 of the summer's hottest products, tested and rated:
• MP3 players
• gas grills
• ice cream makers
• digital video cameras
• handheld game systems
• golf drivers • more!
"Thin is in" when talking about personal media gadgets, and the new SANYO VPC-C5 Digital Media Camera fits this growing niche perfectly. I look forward to trying the thumb activated recording, which looks like a quick and easy way to capture digital video and photos on the go.
The SANYO C5 Digital Media Camera is a stylishly thin, pocket-sized 5-megapixel digital
camera and full-motion MPEG-4 video camera offering built-in digital image
stabilization and a 2-inch trans-reflective LCD screen. Users can also select
real-time interpolation up to 10 megapixels which allows photos to be enlarged
to "bigger than life" proportions without sacrificing image fidelity,
Never again will precious photo opportunities be missed, because the
versatile SANYO C5 can take digital still images while simultaneously shooting
video.
Nasa's Deep Impact mission provided the first 4th of July fireworks this morning. This is what it looked like when five tons of TNT blasted into the Temple 1 Comet in Space.
Deep Impact consists of a sub-compact-car-sized flyby spacecraft and an impactor, about the size of a washing machine. The dual spacecraft carry three imaging instruments, two on the flyby and one on the impactor.
The 820-pound impactor collided with the comet's nucleus at a closing speed of 23,000 mph. Scientists expect the impact to create a large crater. The impact will eject ice, dust and gas from the crater and reveal the pristine material beneath. The impact will have no significant effect on the comet's orbit, which poses no threat to Earth.
The goal is to see what Comets are made of and if they provide information on how our solar system was formed.
Full Deep Impact coverage and Flash presentation at Nasa.gov
more Deep Impact news | CNN
I'm back from seeing the Live 8 concert at Chateau de Versailles near Paris, and then watching re-runs of the Live 8 broadcasts from around the globe on TV until 5:30 in the morning. I thought it was great, I'll buy the DVD if it is released. I'm sure most people tuned in to watch some of the great performances, so let me just remind you of why Live8 is so important. Please follow the links below:
Now, back to watching the Tour de France!
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