Google has filed for a video franchise license, which if approved could allow it to take on cable providers in markets in which it’s hoping to deliver fiber-enabled Gigabit broadband services. 
Is it acceptable to destroy cultural objects as if they were land mines? This is a question faced by archivists in Germany, where many of the country's historical films were shot on explosive nitrocellulose. 
I wanted to share some information with you about an upcoming change to how we broadcast our satellite channels. 
The historic Twickenham Film Studios in south-west London, recently used for The Iron Lady and My Week with Marilyn, goes into administration. 
Aereo, a startup formerly known as Bamboom labs, has raised over $25 million in funding for a subscription service that will provide access to local television channels over the internet. Aereo will offer a remote antenna and digital video recorder to subscribers, or members as it prefers to call them, which they can use to access network television on tablets and smartphones or through Roku or Apple TV boxes. Expect to see opposition from broadcast networks and inevitable legal challenges, but could this be the future of television? 
New records released today by the Security Service (MI5) include files on the silent-era film star Charlie Chaplin, the Dutch double-agent Folkert Van Koutrik and details of a Nazi plan to produce fake British banknotes. 
How did a 73-year-old government agency operating under an almost comedically boring mandate ("to interpret Canada to Canadians and other nations") turn into a hotbed of film innovation? NFB chair Tom Perlmutter says the tech/film link has always been there, but the body has also dedicated itself to exploring new forms of storytelling and backing the next generation of filmmakers. Plus: 5 tips for making it the NFB way 
We released the 2011 Social Video Advertising Report today. 
Behind the scenes, a small but important change in the way YouTube deals with content owners. 
Thirty-five years after it released its first VCR, Panasonic is ending production of the VHS-format videocassette recorder. While it stopped producing VCRs for the domestic market only at the end of last year, the company does still manufacture VCRs at factories in China and Slovakia to meet a demand that still exists in some markets, a spokesman said. 
Amazon is looking for television executives to develop original half-hour kids‘ and comedy series for both online and traditional distribution, according to two new job postings at Amazon.com. 
Look out I Are Cute Kitten. There's a new cat in town, and she says No No No No. And according to research it's the funniest video out there. Curators at The British Library have begun the process of archiving videogame websites to preserve gaming culture for future generations. |
A proposal for a new HTML video copy protection standard that is endorsed by Netflix has drawn criticism from representatives of Google and Mozilla in a discussion on the W3C HTML mailing list. YouView, the planned connected television platform backed by leading British broadcasters and broadband providers, has yet to announce a launch date. There are now reports that it may not be ready for full launch until just before the London Olympics. Even then, only relatively small numbers may benefit. Meanwhile Freeview already offers access to high-definition channels and broadband enabled video on demand options. Here are 10 'taster' clips from the new British Library Sounds website at http://sounds.bl.uk, where you may listen for free to 50,000 other tracks of music, spoken words and environmental sounds. Users at licensed UK universities and colleges may additionally download tracks for research use. 
Screening the Future serves the global community of stakeholders who keep audiovisual content alive. This annual international conference brings together more than 250 leading archivists, production companies, filmmakers, TV producers, CTOs, scientists, vendors, strategists, funders and policy makers, developing soutions to the most urgent questions facing audiovisual repostories. With Play, Pause and Press Forward as the theme of this year's conference, we explore the current status of audiovisual archives; the main challenges that archives and producers face in terms of IT, institutional position, and changes in use and market; and their future readiness. 
The Digital Dilemma 2 focuses on the acute challenges faced by independent filmmakers, documentarians and nonprofit audiovisual archives. While 75 percent of theatrically released motion pictures are independently produced, these communities typically lack the resources, personnel and funding to address sustainability issues that are available to major Hollywood studios and other large, deep-pocketed enterprises. Independent filmmakers create – and nonprofit film archives collect and store – a sizeable part of moving image and sound heritage. The Academy partnered with the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) to produce this new study with the conviction that these communities shouldn't be allowed to fall through the cracks. 
John Whittingdale, chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee, Join us for a series of illustrated talks, conversations, discussions and preview screenings that are all about history. We'll be debating the relevance of the past, exploring different approaches to history on television and radio and hearing about the work of prominent historians and programme-makers.... 
YouTube has begun a marketing campaign featuring UK artists in a bid to 
Today news has broken out that UK TV network ITV sent Apple a letter last year basically saying: ‘You’d best not name your HD TV sets iTV’. Welcome to the experiment IDENTIFYING CUTS IN MOVING PICTURES.
In this web-based experiment you will be presented with video clips from feature films. Each clip contains cuts. A cut is defined as "any transition from one viewpoint to another that could not have been produced by a single continuously filming camera". 
See how two cute pooches react as Newsbeat tests out the first TV advert aimed directly at dogs' ears. Even the lowest resolution TV or movie streaming is a struggle on the average broadband connection, a Telegraph analysis has revealed. |
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