Tag: VIDEO

In an attempt to make its platform more user friendly, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) launched a major site redesign this week, with a particular emphasis on increasing video footage and streamlining site aesthetics. IMDB founder and CEO Col Needham tells the AP that his movie site underwent a makeover primarily to "emphasize the visual nature of film and TV." It's also no coincidence that ...

For now, fans of the Dallas Cowboys can brag that their team's stadium boasts the world's largest HD video screen. Enjoy it while you can, Cowboys fans. According to DVICE, the Charlotte Motor Speedway will unveil, in April 2011, a 200-foot-by-80-foot Panasonic HD screen that will supplant the Cowboys' screen as the world's largest. The monster screen will cover an area of 16,000 square feet, ...

NBC has struck a deal with Netflix that will bring content from the company's repository of network and cable TV shows to the streaming video service. Episodes from the most recently completed seasons (but not the current ones) of 'The Office' and '30 Rock' will now be accessible, as will entire series like 'Battlestar Galactica.' Subscribers will also be able to stream every episode of 'Saturday ...

If you've ever sat in nosebleed seats at an NFL game, you'll agree that the view from your living room -- which probably includes HDTV and cheap snacks -- is much better. But Fanvision, a new handheld device offered at 12 NFL stadiums and one college, could enhance live football games by using the same technology that keeps some folks at home. The handheld, which only works inside the stadium, ...

Last week, design innovation factory IDEO wowed us with a reinvention of the woefully stagnant ATM. Now, it has released a video highlighting three new concepts for digital reading. 'Nelson' helps to contextualize a given book, granting sidebar access to online commentary, statistics about cultural impact and links that fact-check the book's data. 'Coupland' is designed for professionals, ...

One of the Web's largest social networks dedicated to live streaming video, Justin.tv, finally has an iPhone app to compliment its Android streaming tool. The free app is available now in the iTunes store and will let iPhone 4 and 3GS owners stream their daily lives over 3G or Wi-Fi. ...

Watch these guys (who are, by any measure, braver than you are) free-climb a 1,768-foot broadcasting tower (just shy of the height of the Sears Willis Tower, if you count its antennas) after the jump. Apparently, OSHA lets workers climb without lines because those "safety" ropes just get in the damn way. Best/worst job ever? We're a bit nauseous now. ...

Having already dipped its toes in the live-stream pool earlier this year, YouTube is now testing a broader live-streaming platform, set to go live this morning. The trial, underway at 11 a.m. EST, will involve content streamed from four of YouTube's partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. (Click here for a full programming schedule.) Youtube explains that users will ...

"Computers always want to be annoying," says Los Angeles-base artist Jennifer Steinkamp, as we discuss the installation of her current solo show in New York. She has ample reason to to worry about technology, given that her chosen medium -- 3-D animation -- is entirely computer based. Still, she takes the glitches in stride, as natural consequences of reliance on the digital. "It's just ...

Douglas Trumbull, special effects mastermind, talks about the creation of Los Angeles's post-apocalyptic terrain in 'Blade Runner,' known as the 'Hades Landscape.' Before CGI gave us Pandora and Jar Jar Binks, people like Trumbull employed acid-etched brass miniatures, and launched actual fireballs to compose their breathtaking shots. Check out the interview with Trumbull in this fascinating ...

The Apple TV has been something of a joke since it was first introduced as a "hobby" way back in 2007. Essentially, an underpowered and hobbled Mac Mini with an oversimplified UI, it found some fans in the small demographic of tinkerers and Apple fanboys. But now, after years of speculation, Steve Jobs is finally putting down the Apple TV, and, in its place, picking up, well, a new Apple TV. ...

We might as well learn to love 3-D, because Fujifilm (and nearly every other manufacturer) isn't going to hold back on the tech. Fujifilm is giving 3-D cameras another go in September by releasing the FinePix Real 3D W3, which captures 3-D AVI photos and videos at a high-def quality resolution of 720p. Why would consumers buy this camera when Fujifilm's first 3-D camera, the FinePix Real 3D W1, ...

The town of Dudley in West Midlands, England has just deployed a crime-fighting vehicle that's more cute than it is fearsome. According to the BBC, after a "slight increase" in the number of robberies since April, the Dudley Bobbies decided that a pedal-powered contraption in the shape of a giant, sideways apostrophe would help make civilians more protective of their valuables. The 'Digi-Bike,' as ...

The undisputed 'King of Late Night' is making a comeback -- this time, on the Internet. According to The New York Times, more than 3,500 hours of footage from Johnny Carson's tenure as host of 'The Tonight Show' has been preserved digitally and archived on the Web for fans to enjoy. It took about 2,000 people to complete this two-phase project, which mostly spans the years between 1973 and 1992 ...

We were very impressed (and only slightly disturbed) by architecture grad and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda's 'AR Kitchen' video earlier this year. Matsuda has been exploring a possible future of augmented reality interfaces with his videos, imaging a world when AR is less a gimmick than an integrated part of daily life. Matsuda has said, "The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply ...