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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.
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We all know – or think we know - that family life during the second half of the twentieth century revolved increasingly around the television set that formed such a prominent feature – often the primary focus - of the nation’s living rooms. From the late 1960s onwards, those television sets were increasingly ubiquitous. The content they broadcast was frequently the common currency of popular culture. Audiences for the most popular programmes, or for broadcasts of important national and international events, were numbered in the tens of millions. Overwhelmingly, the television during these decades was, or seemed to be, the main window through which Britain looked at itself and looked out on the world. 
TalkTalk says that YouView is still “on track” for a “gradual ramp up” from July to a marketing launch from September. The project, backed by British broadcasters and broadband service providers, has been much delayed and has yet to commit to a firm launch date. Beyond the core technical specification, no details of any technical standards or interfaces have yet been published. Far from being an open platform, YouView appears to be increasingly driven by commercial interests. 
Policy thinking on internet piracy, public service broadcasting and spectrum unlikely to be published until the autumn. The BFI has launched a four-week consultation on its Future Plan for 2012-2017 and you are invited to take part.
New Horizons for UK Film outlines the BFI's proposals for investing Lottery support for UK film and sets out a fresh agenda to capitalise on British creativity and talent.
The proposals cover a wide range of activities for supporting filmmaking, production, development, exhibition, education, skills development and film heritage - with a central focus on building audiences across the UK and on all platforms. 
The Amateur Cinema Studies Network (ACSN) is the first international initiative that brings together scholars and visual artists concerned with the study and production of amateur cinema. 
When you walk into the new BBC Broadcasting House you can't help but think that your standing at the starting line of a race to the future. The gleaming newsroom, not yet open or full of staff, is steeped in promise. 
TV makers are using technological developments in the mobile and gaming sectors to redesign the TV remote control. 
You’ve asked for it, and here it is. Today, we’re is launching the most comprehensive directory of social TV companies on the web, sponsored by GetGlue. We cover dozens of social TV startups on a monthly basis, and we’ll admit, it’s hard to keep track. So the directory is also an ongoing archive, linking to past stories for nearly all of the 70+ companies listed so far. We’re also tracking which companies have been acquired or closed down. 
The Board of the British Library has appointed Roly Keating as the Library’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). 
Martin Chulov: How will the new network fare in a region where independence is so bitterly contested? 
And the kids'-show business, too. Yet another big Web company says it's going to make its own videos. How soon before Jeff Bezos finds a "Seinfeld"? 
One of the strengths of The Space is that it can be accessed on a number of platforms, including mobile and red button, but my encounter today is on a conventional laptop. Since nothing at present is taking place in real time, you could question the tagline ‘Arts 2012 – Live, Free and On Demand.’ But the site is clear and clean and jumps you straight to the experiences of the initial offering. There is also a short video that aims to answer the question, ‘What is The Space?’ But I’ve tried playing it several times, and on each occasion it freeezes at ‘It’s a deliberately experimental…’ 
London, UK - 3 May 2012 - The ninth annual FOCAL International Awards in association with AP Archive took place last night at The Lancaster London Hotel, with winning entries spanning the decades and unearthing stunning footage illustrating a wide variety of topics, including life in the former USSR, racial segregation, the passion of motor racing and the chilling beauty of degraded film. |
Last year to celebrate our birthday, we wrote you, the YouTube Community, a thank you note for making our first 6 years so special. And on that birthday you gave us a great present by reaching a record rate of 48 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute. Well Community, this year, on our 7th birthday, you’ve outdone yourselves once again.
Today 72 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute. Like many 7 year olds around the world, we’re growing up so fast! In other words, every single minute you now upload three whole days worth of video instead of two. Archive films are being used to help people with dementia and other memory disorders in a new project. 
What a wonderful image this is. It features in the British Library's new Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands exhibition, on the relationship between British writers and British landscape, but in truth it stands alone. It shows, from left to right, Lord Howard de Walden (author and philanthropist), the drama critic William Archer, J.M. Barrie, G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. They are dressed as cowboys, having paused for a while during the making of a film, later entitled How Men Love. The director was the playwright and theatre producer Harley Granville-Barker, the year 1914. Vimeo, the social networking video hosting hub, has developed a Creative Commons resource for those looking to re-use pre-existing moving image content under the carious CC licences. 
Some £285m of National Lottery money is to be put into the UK film industry as part of a five-year plan issued by the British Film Institute.
In the last few decades, South Korea has emerged as a powerhouse of cinema, with both Korean-made films winning global accolades and Hollywood remaking Korean mega-hits like My Sassy Girl, and, if industry gossip is true, Oldboy. Many of the all-time classic Korean films, however, have been hard for global audiences to get their hands on.
Working together with the Korean Film Archive, we now have 70 classic Korean films available globally for free on YouTube—complete with English and other translated subtitles. The films are all available at youtube.com/koreanfilm, organized in playlists by decade as well as by director. Issues of the newsreel British News is now online and available for download from the British Council Film Collections website. This war-time newsreel was produced for the British Council by the Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This meant that every week one of the five major newsreel companies, which made up the Association, compiled an issue from the following newsreels: British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Gaumont British News, Pathe Gazette and Universal News.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has undertaken a unique expansion in film preservation. As the rise of digital technology drastically reduces the availability of film stock, the project accelerates the work of the Academy Film Archive to acquire and create new archival film masters and prints from at-risk elements. Under the banner "Film-to-Film," the $2 million initiative, approved by the Academy’s Board of Governors, focuses largely on Academy Award®-winning and nominated films from across motion picture history, including works made as recently as the 1990s. The expulsion, reportedly over official anger about a documentary on forced labor, among other programs, was seen as a signal of growing sensitivity about foreign news coverage. 
Back in August last year, Tony Ageh asked us a question: "How would you deliver a 'pop-up' television channel to desktops, mobiles, tablets and connected TVs?" 
Virgin Media, Britain’s second-largest broadband provider, has become the first to block access to The Pirate Bay file sharing website after a High Court order. 
Pros and cons of perforated plastic with photographic emulsion... |
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