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