ouTube has now started out to look at new code that will permit it to change instantly among the Flash and HTML5 based on what browser you are using.
HTML 5 will be the 1st option after which it will only force Flash once the movement photo demands skills HTML5 can’t however deal with (like all those annoying ads).
Unfortunately only the developers currently have entry in the direction of new code, but YouTube ideas to roll it out to everyone using the future.
The traditional arcade go with Snake day-to-day lives on by method of YouTube getting a clever new edition not known in particular videos.
To find out it, make particular you go to some film inside the gaming category, click inside the place within of the video, after which sustain decrease the left arrow key.
Shortly after, a trail of bright dots will start scrolling throughout the video, getting just one blinking bright dot that make particular you steer your snake across.
Its kinda challenging to accomplish over a busy background, but probabilities are somebody will article a plain dark film to create it easier.
Enjoy!
Sony always be the leader of multimedia area. Now she take another action to grad people’s attention.
Blu-ray Disc authoring company Deluxe Digital Studios will use Sony Creative Software’s Dualstream 3D encoder for 3D Blu-ray titles for all major studios, the companies said July 21.
“Hollywood is eager to bring 3D into living rooms, so we’ve been evaluating the tools that will enable us to deliver an outstanding 3D experience at home via Blu-ray Disc,” said Jeff McDermott, VP of research and development for Deluxe. ”Sony’s Dualstream 3D encoder and Blu-print Blu-ray Disc authoring tool help to simplify the incredibly complex challenges of delivering 3D via Blu-ray Disc and enables more creativity in designing 3D content and features.”
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s digital authoring center used the encoder and authoring tool for the Blu-ray 3D production of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the first Sony Pictures title to be released on Blu-ray 3D.
“With the growing momentum of 3D home entertainment, studios need innovative and powerful new production tools that will ensure 3D films at home have as much impact as those seen in theaters,” said Dave Chaimson, VP of global marketing for Sony Creative Software. “As Deluxe clients include most leading Hollywood film studios, we’re honored they have selected Sony tools to ensure they are able to produce a rich and engaging 3D experience that lives up to the expectations of both the industry and consumers as we embrace this impactful new format.”
The home entertainment industry began to recover in the second quarter of this year, with consumer spending on pre-recorded entertainment products relatively flat with second-quarter spending in 2009.
Numbers released today by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group also indicate a 2.3% rise in consumer transactions in the first six months of this year.
A tough first quarter, however, still led to a 3.3% decrease in first-half spending. Consumers spent an estimated $8.8 billion on DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales and rentals as well as digitally distributed programming, compared with a revised estimate of $9.1 billion in the first six months of 2009.
Spending was down just 0.7% in the second quarter, a far cry from the 8% decline reported in the first quarter of 2010.
“Clearly, we are still grappling with a challenging marketplace and a tough economy, but overall the trends we are seeing are encouraging,” said Warner Home Video president Ron Sanders, also president of DEG: The Digital Entertainment.
Packaged media sales slipped 3% in the second quarter, but factoring in a steep first-quarter drop the first-half decline came in at 7.1%, for a total of $4.7 billion.
Rental spending, according to Rentrak Corp.’s Home Video Essentials, slipped 4.9% in the first half of the year to finish at just under $3 billion. The decline is due mostly to the closure earlier this year of hundreds of Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video stores, although kiosk revenue — mostly from Redbox’s ubiquitous red vending machines — is estimated to be up a healthy 55%.
Digital distribution accounted for $1.1 billion in first-half consumer spending, up 23.1% from the first half of 2009. Electronic sellthrough (mostly through Apple iTunes) generated an estimated $285 million, up 36.9%, while video-on-demand (VOD) brought in an estimated $865 million, up 19.1%.
Blu-ray Disc also continued to post impressive gains, with combined consumer spending on purchases and rentals of the high-definition disc estimated at $982 million for the first half of the year. Blu-ray Disc sellthrough rose 84%, to $733 million. Isolating the second quarter, Blu-ray Disc sales were up 112% to $363 million, thanks at least in part to the Blu-ray Disc success of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Avatar, which in April sold an estimated 2.7 million Blu-ray Discs in its first four days in stores.
DEG numbers are derived from various sources, including the studios, key retailers and industry tracking sources.
Sharp’s new BD-HDW700 and BD-HDW70 Blu-ray recorders will support the BDXL format. Sharp recently launched their range of 100GB Blu-ray discs. Both recorders will be released in Japan later this month.
However, the new BDXL format will not be backwards compatible with existing Blu-ray players or recorders, meaning that the BDXL discs will only play on BDXL hardware, such as the two new Sharp Aquos Blu-ray recorders.
Both recorders come with a massive 2TB of on-board storage for the PVR function, and also supports Blu-ray 3D playback.
The 100GB record-once BDXL-R discs cost 5000 yen, or about $US 55 to 60 per disc.
It’s unknown at this stage whether BDXL will be used to commercially distribute movies, but if this were to happen, all current Blu-ray players (and many scheduled to be released this year) will be obsolete.
A new study from The NPD Group finds that between 7 million and 8 million of the estimated 50 million iTunes users nationwide would be interested in paying a monthly fee for access to music on multiple devices.
A free, cloud-based option to stream music they already own would be attractive to between 13 million and 15 million iTunes users, NPD estimates, while less than 10 million would be likely to pay a minimum fee of $10 a month to stream all available iTunes music.
“After the service’s launch, user numbers could conceivably rise substantially, as they upgrade to newer connected devices and actually experience the benefits of cloud-based music,” said Russ Crupnick, VP and senior entertainment analyst for The NPD Group. “If the consumers who indicated strong interest in a paid subscription actually adopted one of those services at $10 per month, the market opportunity is close to $1 billion in the first year, which is roughly two-thirds the revenue garnered by the current pay-per-download model.
“We don’t yet know what, if any, effect these services might have on the traditional pay-per-download music model, or whether consumers will ultimately spend more on digital music overall, if or when any of these options eventually rolls out.”
The all-time box office champ is ready for another round.
James Cameron’s Avatar: Special Edition will hit Digital 3D and Imax 3D theaters Aug. 27 for a limited engagement, and includes eight minutes of additional footage.
“Audiences repeated told me they wanted more of Pandora, and wished they could have stayed there longer. So we’re making that possible,” Cameron said. “Whether you already love the movie, or you’ve never seen it, with this special edition you’ll be seeing it like never before.”
The additional footage includes new creatures and action scenes, Cameron said.
The news of the theatrical re-release comes amid speculation about a deluxe edition of the film for DVD and Blu-ray. The movie was released on disc in April with no bonus material, but producers indicated a new disc with extensive extras was being prepared for release by the end of the year, with a 3D home video version due within a year or two.
Avatar has grossed nearly $750 million domestically and more than $2.7 billion worldwide.
Avatar brings 3D movies to the center of movie stage, though its expense is higher than regular movie.
While Universal Pictures scored a much-needed box office hit last weekend with Despicable Me, which grossed $60.1 million, the animated feature generated just 45% of revenue from 3D screens, the lowest percentage for a 3D release this year.
The results point to the possibility that consumers think not all movies are worth paying a premium for a 3D experience, which could affect ongoing early rollout of 3DTVs, compatible Blu-ray Disc players and 3D movies.
Richard Greenfield, analyst with BTIG Research in New York, argues that theater operators and studios risk alienating increasing numbers of moviegoers from the 3D format by charging high ticket prices.
In a survey of 2,600 consumers, Greenfield found that 77% of respondents believe the average $4 premium for a 3D ticket (compared to 2D) too excessive, including about 37% who said they would not pay extra to see a movie in 3D. More than 80% of respondents said they had seen a 3D movie.
Greenfield conducted the survey in advance of the July 15 initial public stock offering (IPO) for Los Angeles-based RealD, which licenses 3D technology to motion picture exhibitors, in addition to its side-by-side technology (allowing for 3D images to both the left and right eye) to stream content into a single channel to any 3DTV.
RealD offers theater operators free 3D upgrades to existing digital projectors in exchange for a 40 cents to 50 cents license fee per moviegoer, according to Greenfield. The studios and RealD subsidize the cost of theatrical 3D glasses.
“It is pretty clear from the [respondent] comments that they are not happy with the movie exhibition industry and are clearly differentiating between paying ‘up’ for movies like Avatar vs. less exciting, lower quality movies,” Greenfield wrote in a post.
About 60% of respondents said they hadn’t seen a 3D movie in the past three to six months, while another 26% last saw a 3D movie in the previous week-to-30-day period.
The analyst said consumer awareness of Imax theaters was high (98%), compared with RealD (2%), with 60% of respondents indicating they had never heard of RealD and another 10% saying they thought RealD was related to the 3D glasses they used to watch a 3D movie.
“We suspect most people do not understand what is needed/required to make a movie theater 3D capable,” Greenfield wrote.
Indeed, movie critic Roger Ebert implored moviegoers to watch Despicable Me in 2D, calling the 3D release “more dim” than it should be.
“If you see it in 3D, check out the trailers online to see how bright and cheery it would look in 2D,” Ebert wrote online. “How can people deceive themselves that 3D is worth paying extra for?”
Moscow State University Graphics & Multimedia Laboratory has finished 6-th H.264 codecs comparison.
It is intended for practical researchers and developers in the field of high-end video compression.
We have tested newest implementations of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video codecs and compare with XviD (MPEG-4 ASP) and Theora encoders.
One of the main targets for this comparison was to test H.264 encoders for transcoding tasks for Movies and HDTV video content.
Codec that were tested:
Summary report topics:
- For psycho-visual enhancement in codecs analysis
- For fade processing analysis
- For animation movie compression analysis
Enhancements in comparison to Previous H.264/AVC Comparison:
Sony has plans to launch two new movie channels later this year with one being solely dedicated to showing only Sony Pictures movies in HD.
The HD channel would be the company’s first wholly owned cable channel in the U.S. devoted to strictly to movies and is expected to debut October 1.
The other channel would be a joint effort between Sony, Comcast, Lionsgate called FearNet which is already a channel offered by some cable operators.
Both channels would be included in basic cable packages.
