Sight – Amazing Short Movie about Future Augmented Reality “Retina”

Wondering where augmented reality glasses and visual enhancements could lead us to? This short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo provides us a peek at a potential future. It’s part of their graduation project from Bezaleal academy of arts.

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HBO Offers First Episode of New Show “The Newsroom” for Free on YouTube

Even though it’s pretty normal for initial episodes to be available in the form of a free preview as advertisement for premium subscription channels, HBO takes it a step further, and officially offers the first episode on YouTube in HD … Read More

Adobe/Microsoft on Flash Player and Windows 8 Metro

Official announcements about Flash Player and Windows 8 Metro from Adobe and Microsoft.

Adobe Flash runtimes roadmap update.

Microsoft is currently developing Windows 8, which is the next generation of its Windows operating system. The operating system includes a number of … Read More

Olympics BBC iPlayer Preview

BBC’s Gary Lineker, former English footballer, and now a sports broadcaster for the BBC, provides a preview of the BBC iPlayer for the 2012 London Olympics.

The live, … Read More

Primetime Simulcast, Adobe Media Server 5 (formerly FMS), and Adobe Access 4 Announced

Jeremy Helfand, Vice President of Video Monetization at Adobe, announced Primetime Simulcast during the Cable Show today.

Today, in an industry-first, we announced Primetime Simulcast as a new advancement to Project Primetime. As media companies broadcast their linear content, Primetime Simulcast provides a single … Read More

Online Video and Close Captioning – It’s Getting Real

Solving the challenges of close captioning on the web is not optional anymore, but a requirement as part of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.

Without getting into the specific government requirements (it’s a mandate soon in the US), … Read More

Accenture Video-Over-Internet Consumer Survey 2012

Accenture published a study called “Heart, Minds and Wallets – Winning the Battle for Consumer Trust”. It unveils some very interesting statistics.

While technology is a key component of creating relevant and appealing offers, it is by no means the … Read More

Couch “Potatoes” no Longer

A new report confirms what we’ve suspected all along—watching TV is just too passé.

Nielsen found that 88 percent of tablet owners in the US use their devices while watching TV at least once a month.  And almost half of … Read More

Get Ready For Adobe Primetime, Here Is a Summary In Case You Missed It

In case you haven’t followed the announcements, Adobe announced Project Primetime, which will be Adobe’s next generation video workflow.

Project Primetime

Ashley Still, Director of Product Management for Video Solutions at Adobe, announced “Project Primetime” on the Digital Media … Read More

My Enchanting Technology Predictions for 2012

And here we are again, another year, another time for 2012 predictions. Here is my personal version, right from my tea leaves.

HTML5 will be sexy for marketing sites

Wait, what? HTML5 was already here in 2011. Yes, you … Read More