Portable Video Players
With all the portable devices out now, there is a wave of video storage devices that have crossed my path. I read about them, see commercials and notice the sales papers that advertise them. If you are looking for a portable video player during this time of year, let me show you a few choices [...]
Verizon and YouTube Talking
Verizon has been in talks with YouTube to continue working toward bringing the popular video source to their cellular service packages. Verizon hopes that YouTube will work with them on pushing the popular content on YouTube to Verizon customers via their cellphones.
This could be a great move for Verizon and could put them ahead [...]
Viruses Making Way Into Videos
Video clips with bugs attached? That’s right. It was only a matter of time before the malicious coders out there turned to putting viruses into video clips. YouTube is not the only target, though, with so many new video sites cropping up.
More codecs are booby-trapped and some file compressors are being tainted [...]
Yahoo Takes YouTube Idea and Expands On It
Yahoo might have missed out on buying YouTube as Google sits atop the purchase successfully, but they won’t let that get them down. Yahoo is exploring the amateur video popularity but stepping in with TV-style programming.
After lower than expected third-quarter earnings, a newly introduced program entitled “The 9″ has quietly raised eyebrows in the [...]
Mvix Player – Portable Multimedia Revolution
The Mvix (MV-5000U) Media Center w/FM is basically a portable external hard drive with the remarkable ability to play “…dozens of video, audio and digital image (i.e. JPEG) formats over your TV, projector or home-theater system.” Even better, the (MV-5000U) unit comes with the added ability to transmit audio to one of 4 FM stations [...]
Audio Video CODECS
CODECS have long plagued those simply wanting to play video files either on their PC or home entertainment system. The term CODEC means Compressor-Decompressor’, ‘Coder-Decoder’, or ‘Compression/Decompression algorithm.
It basically applies to the ability of a program to transform a data stream or signal. CODECS encode a stream or signal for transmission, storage or encryption and [...]
