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Arcade Fire’s music video delivers jaw-dropping HTML5 interactivity

August 31st, 2010 9:30am Pete Railton No comments

Arcade Fire's interactive HTML5 music video gets jaws dropping

We’re a pretty hard-nosed, cynical bunch here at Wirefresh, but Arcade Fire’s Google Maps interactive video mash-up got a few jaws dropping around the office.

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JVC’s Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 offer pint-sized 1080p pocket camcording

August 24th, 2010 11:14am Lee J. No comments

JVC's Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 offer pint sized 1080p pocket camcording

If you’re in the market for a bijou video recorder, JVC is hoping to set your wallet into paroxysms of delight with its new Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 1080p pocket camcorders.

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Panasonic announce 3D lens for Micro Four Thirds and HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder

July 28th, 2010 11:53am mike s No comments

Panasonic announce 3D lens for Micro Four Thirds and HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world’s going 3D-tastic, with TV, video, gaming and camera manufacturers all scrambling to grab a piece of the action.

After announcing the world’s first 3D consumer camcorder (see below), Panasonic have now unveiled its plans to release an interchangeable 3D lens for the Micro Four Thirds system.

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YouTube Mobile gets faster, updated website, improves on iPhone app

July 8th, 2010 9:30am mike s No comments

YouTube Mobile gets faster, updated website

With record numbers of consumers accessing YouTube via mobile devices – traffic was up 160% in 2009 over the previous year – an updated version of YouTube Mobile is currently being rolled out.

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YouTube wants your videos for ‘Life in a Day’ movie produced by Ridley Scott

July 7th, 2010 12:52pm mike s No comments

YouTube wants your videos for 'Life in a Day' movie produced by Ridley Scott

YouTube has launched an interesting new project called “Life in a Day,” which intends to document one day as seen through the eyes of movie makers, camcorder warriors and mobile phone footage freaks all around the world.

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Merton, the Chatroulette Piano Guy is back

July 6th, 2010 4:18pm Pete Railton No comments

We like this guy. So here’s his latest video. Oh, and it’s not safe for work as it contains ‘swears.’

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How are digital movies distributed and screened? Every question answered!

July 6th, 2010 11:54am mike s 3 comments

How are digital movies distributed? Full explanation hereThe bulletin boards on our sister site urban75 have a good reputation for answering obscure questions posed by contributors, but rarely does a question get answered as comprehensively as when a poster enquired, “How are digital movies distributed?”

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Google gets down with Grandmas for some video chat

July 2nd, 2010 10:30am mike s No comments

Google gets down with Grandmas for some video chat

We’re rather partial to Google’s quirky promo videos, and this latest one is certainly more offbeat than most.

Titled, “Introducing the Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat,” the 1.45 min cartoon tries to explain to crumblies how to get up and running with this crazy, new fangled video chat thing.

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Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet offers HD video-conferencing

June 30th, 2010 10:00am Pete Railton No comments

Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet offers HD video-conferencing

Apple may not be keen on the idea of tablets with built in video cameras, but Cisco reckon businesses are going to be mad for it, and have unveiled a 7-inch tablet designed for real-time conferencing and collaboration.

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YouTube adds online editing for your videos

June 17th, 2010 9:45am mike s No comments

YouTube adds online editing for your videos

Set to inspire wannabe Hitchcock film-makers is YouTube’s natty new cloud-based video editing tools which have just been added to the video sharing site.

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Humax finally schedules updates for its wonky PVRs

June 7th, 2010 5:09pm mike s 4 comments

Humax finally schedules updates for its wonky PVRs

Like a lot of our readers, we’ve had a thoroughly torrid time with our Humax PVRs, but it seems there finally is hope on the horizon, with over-the-air updates scheduled for later this week.

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Sony show off remarkable rollable OLED display

May 26th, 2010 10:44am Lee J. No comments

Sony show off remarkable rollable OLED display

Roll-up video displays are right up there with hoverboots and Moonbase Alpha in our vision of the future, and the boffins at Sony are fast forwarding into a tech brave new world with a demo of their rollable OLED display.

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Google announces Google TV: “TV meets web. Web meets TV”

May 20th, 2010 9:25pm mike s 2 comments

Google announces Google TV:

Declaring that it will “change the future of television,” Google has announced Google TV, a new Android powered application which lets users search for content from their television, DVR and the web.

The new platform will let users search for TV related content – just like they use Google’s current search engine – with the results viewable on their TVs or computers.

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Humax Freeview PVR issues – beta fix offered

May 19th, 2010 11:13am mike s 1 comment

Humax PVT 9200T PVR - problems, slow performance and freezes

Like many of our readers, we’ve been fuming over the problems our Humax PVR players have been suffering, with the machines suffering a frustrating mixture of unbearable slow downs, freezes and unresponsive remote controls.

Despite a flurry of  emails and promises, Humax have been reluctant  to actually name the date when the problem will be fixed – but today they have  at least informed us of the availability of a beta trial.

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Humax HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder – caveat emptor!

May 18th, 2010 11:22am mike s 2 comments

Humax has announced details of  its new HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder, with the launch date set rather foolishly after the World Cup. Doh!

The HDR-FOX T2 offers just a  500GB hard drive – something we’d imagine will fill up pretty sharpish with all those lovely  HD recordings – plus an eight-day EPG, series recording, schedule tracking and split recording.

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