Sony has just unveiled three new HD-series S-Frame digital photo frames that can play back 1920×1080 HD videos. Supported formats include AVCHD (H.264) and MP4 from digital HD camcorders. Each frame has 2GB of built-in memory that’s made more efficient thanks to a feature that will downsize images to fit the frame’s native resolution while […]
The WebM Project took a defensive measure on Monday with the creation of the WebM Community Cross-License. The approach will see 17 companies and groups give licenses to any WebM-related patents they have to other CCL members. Google, Matroska, and Xiph.org form the core but are joined by AMD, Cisco, Huawei, LG, Logitech, MIPS, Mozilla, […]
YouTube in an update Tuesday afternoon said it was now encoding all new videos in its in-house WebM standard. The format would let viewers using new versions of Chrome as well as Firefox and Opera see video in HTML5 using the open format. Videos would still be playable in the H.264 format and the original […]
Fujifilm has Announced a new flagship camera for its Z-series designer line. The Z900 EXR has a new CMOS-based, 16-megapixel sensor with EXR that should be much better at capturing shots in low light. As an EXR unit, it can focus on resolution or drop the resolution to either reduce noise or improve the dynamic […]
Iomega has introduced its new ScreenPlay DX HD connected media player range that replaces the old ScreenPlay Pro HD line. The devices can access Netflix, Pandora and other entertainment sites, as well as playback standard and HD movies locally or from a home network thanks to their DLNA certification. They connect to the web using […]
Panasonic today is now showing products from its earlier take over of Sanyo with five new pocketable camecorders. The WA10 is its star with an Xacti-like design, it can shoot its 1080P, H.264 video for up to an hour underwater at depths of up to 10 feet. In spite of the hardening, it’s low-light friendly […]
Google’s WebM video format may face renewed challenges from the MPEG-LA group. MPEG-LA is asking members for any instances in which a member company believes one of the VP8 format patents behind WebM might have violated its patents. It hopes to streamline creating a joint license that it could offer for “essential” patents. Any firm […]
Google said Tuesday it was dropping support for H.264 video in Chrome’s HTML5 component. It acknowledged that the more popular format had an “important role” but hoped it could force adoption of its open but internally-developed WebM format as well as Ogg Theora. The company claimed that opening up the VP8 codec underneath led to […]
Sling Media has released a video demo’ing the long promised SlingPlayer for iPad. The streamer has higher quality video than any of Sling’s other apps and makes use of the extra display space to provide a large channel guide and an on-screen number pad that still shows most of the picture underneath when up. Viewers […]
MiniCASTER, which claims to be The World’s first truly mobile Live TV Signal encoder in pocket size, debuts at IBC in Amsterdam today. It enables everybody to stream live to the Web in HDTV quality by pushing only one single button. MiniCASTER is compact, ultra lightweight and mobile due to its on-board battery. It […]
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