Monthly Archives: July 2010

YouTube Auto Switches Depending on Browser

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 [...]

Hidden Game Inside YouTube Videos

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 [...]

Deluxe Digital 3D Blu-rays to Utilize Sony Encoder

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, [...]

DEG Numbers Show Signs of Recovery in Home Entertainment

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 [...]

New Sharp Blu-ray recorder supports BDXL 100GB and 128GB discs

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 [...]

iTunes Users Like Cloud-Based, Subscription Music

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 [...]

Fox Bringing ‘Avatar: Special Edition’ to Theaters

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. [...]

3D Movie Tickets Too Expensive

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 [...]

MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video codecs comparison

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 [...]

Sony to Launch Two New Movie Channels

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 [...]