Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, Video Hardware
Canon’s XL-1 camera range has been a fave with the prosumer video camera market for years … actually stretching as far back into the previous millennium.
Today they’ve announced an updated version, the XL-H1S and XL-H1A HD - both capable of shooting in High Def.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: News Corp., Investments, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Advertising, Google, USA, Search
The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 8 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Distribution, USA
Self-sustaining, for-profit social venture brings in outside investment.
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 April 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, USA, UK, Wireless
We’re all keen on doing our part on not destroying the planet these days - and quite rightly too.
For quite a while, we’ve known that much electrical equipment uses a lot of electricity in standby mode - sometimes, with things such as PVRs, actually more power!
A company calling itself Bye Bye Standby released its […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 31 March 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Apple, Microsoft, USA, Research
Apple users feel the love but Windows XP is still the corporate number one choice
Posted by Simon Perry on 27 March 2008 | Tagged as: USA, Car related, Displays, Industry Trends
The invention of the brake light on the car was arguably the most important addition to the safety of driving, probably trailed by the availability of ABS.
Somehow, perhaps because brake lights are so important, there’s been no significant advance in their development, beyond changing the bulbs to a brighter version.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 19 March 2008 | Tagged as: Distribution, Shift to Web delivery, USA
Web movie trailers now a vital part of a film’s promotion.
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 February 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Video Services, USA, Video on Demand (VoD)
The Disney-ABC Television Group in the US has released a Video on Demand (VoD) service. Not exactly news for DL is it? We’ve been reporting this type of thing for years.
Here’s the news. What ABC have done, in an inexplicable move, is _remove_ functionality that is standard in VoD services normally. They’ve decided to take […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 7 February 2008 | Tagged as: Content, USA
Samsung are sponsoring a independent film season at Landmark Theatres in the US.
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 February 2008 | Tagged as: Adult Content, Content, Government, USA, UK
The ever-irreverent News Biscuit has hit upon a story that could well be a traffic monster for them - combining Internet porn and the current presidential race.
Those tricky laugh generators have penned a piece which tells us that some of the presidential hopefuls have realised that, as there are soooo many Internet p0rn addicts, it’s […]
