BlinkX, which launched last week, offers the closest approximation to “google for television” that’s been done so far. It’s based on what was Virage, and offers access to 42,000 hours of video from CNN, C-Span, NBC, the BBC, Fox, and ten other networks. One interesting thing: Blinkx tells the Wall Street Journal that “fair use [...]
Lockergnome has a new tutorial out on converting VHS to DVD. It’s aimed at consumers who have technical skills, but it’s potentially interesting to amateur archivists. The growing availability of commodity hardware capable of digitizing streams should help drive down the price of migration, but the world is still waiting for a definitive cookbook of [...]
Stu Gannes points out that Reuters is moving into broadcasting news video on the web in a big way, and is quickly adding improvements to its services. Contrast that with CNN’s $12.95 per month service for access to its news. In the newspaper business, only the Wall Street Journal has been successful in charging for [...]
One of Yahoo’s top 25 most emailed stories today is about BitTorrent, and Hollywood’s response to it. The speed at which television programs are being digitized and being made available via BitTorrent is astonishing. In 1996, few sound archivists would have been believed that most of the world’s commercially available recorded music would be digitized [...]
InformITV is reporting on the IPTV Worldforum, which will be happening in London on March 8 & 9 next year.
CNET ran yet another piece on progress by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo towards creating multimedia search engines and making deals with content owners so that there is something to find. Some extracts: As nearly 30 million U.S. households get wired with broadband Internet, more people are getting comfortable using multimedia online, giving TV audiences more [...]