March 2nd, 2010 11:36am
mike s
Canon has announced that it will be unleashing the much-anticipated (and rather overdue) firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II from mid-March, adding professional video capabilities to the fine dSLR.
First announced in late 2009, the new firmware version 2.0.3 enhances the EOS 5D Mark II’s video performance, offering full 1080p HD video recording at 24, 25 and 29.97fps to match PAL and NTSC broadcast standards.
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December 4th, 2009 10:30am
mike s
If your poor piddling netbook is flapping, floundering and becoming formidably flummoxed and foxed when it’s asked to play back YouTube videos, help is at hand in the shape of a new lightweight version of the video sharing site.
Appropriately called Feather, the stripped out version dumps the ability to view videos in High Quality mode, and shunts out most of the commenting and sharing options to give you a lean’n'mean interface.
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November 24th, 2009 11:55am
mike s
We figured it wouldn’t be long before video recording was hacked on the Palm Pre, and sure enough, an app has appeared courtesy of the busy Homebrew community.
The app is still in alpha so there’s a rough edge or two, but the freshly released Precorder lets your Palm Pre record audio and 30fps 480×320 pixel video in H.264/AVC format.
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November 24th, 2009 9:45am
mike s
Creative are feeling well chuffed with their third generation Vado HD Pocket Video Cam, which they positively insist manages to combine, “sleek design with stunning HD video quality.”
In fact, Steve Erickson, VP and GM for audio and video at Creative was stoked to the max:
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October 22nd, 2009 12:45pm
mike s
The Apple iPhone 3GS already offers some fairly basic video trimming tools, but Nexvio’s iPhone editing app looks a far slicker proposition.
The $8 app lets users add titles and video effects, fades and transitions (we’re rather intrigued by ‘the ‘wipe bottom soft’ option), re-order clips and finally stitch stills and movies together to create your very own showreel, ready to be viewed onscreen or shovelled on to YouTube.
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October 13th, 2009 2:30pm
mike s
Its palm-friendly shape means that it may be in danger of being involuntarily lobbed at the gogglebox when the opposition score an injury-time winner, but for calmer viewers, the GlideTV Navigator may be the perfect accompaniment for an evening’s viewing.
With an ergonomic, ball-like form factor, the Navigator is a trackpad remote designed to operate multimedia devices like a Home Theatre PC, AppleTV, Boxee, PS3, Windows Media Centre or Mac.
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October 6th, 2009 10:15am
mike s
Currently bubbling up under the floorboards and about to make a bid for your wallet is Creative’s first touchscreen media player, the ZEN X-Fi2.
The pocket-sized PMP certainly has the specs to get a wad of twenty pound notes a-fluttering, packing a 3-inch resistive touchscreen, support for WMV9, MPEG4-SP3, DivX3 4 and XviD video formats (with TV out), and audio served up in MP3, WMA, AAC, FLAC, and Audible flavours.
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October 1st, 2009 2:30pm
Lee J.
Smartphone makers Blackberry have launched a new YouTube channel offering tutorials and tips for owners.
Billed as “Everything you need to help you get the most out of your Blackberry smartphone,” there’s currently around twenty short videos on offer, taking you through the basics of the phone’s operation.
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September 30th, 2009 4:30pm
mike s
Cunningly clever researchers from Georgia Tech have come up with a way of taking real-time, real-world information from CCTV cameras and layering it onto a ‘live’ Google Earth, so you’ll be able to watch events happening live onscreen.
Single and multiple live video feeds are analysed to calculate the position and motion of various objects, which is then combined with behavioural simulations to produce real-time animations for Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth.
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September 18th, 2009 10:26am
mike s
Although videophones haven’t really caught on – we’ve never been excited at the prospect of letting people see us in our full, post-hangover, mid-morning glory – we have to say that Asus’s dinky new standalone devices have almost created a moistening in our ‘want’ glands.
Looking purdy as a picture with their curved lines and natty design, the Skype-certified SV1T videophone packs WiFi (or Ethernet), VGA webcam, mic, a built in speaker and a hefty 7-inch 800×480 pixel touchscreen to cater for all your video chatting needs in a standalone package.
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