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”D-Link DPG-1200 PC-on-TV Player Brings Lousy Amateur YouTube Video to Your TV
The Pitch: D-Link's PC-On-TV (DPG-1200) player can stream YouTube, Google Video, Veoh and other streaming video sites from your PC to your TV. It can also watch MPEG-4, AVI, or any video content using any video player on your computer to stream over either 802.11g or a 10/100 Ethernet connection. Price: $199.
The Catch: Supporting all these formats means they're probably capturing an area of your screen (by a VNC-ish proprietary software) and then streaming it to the unit. Not bad, but it requires you to have control of your PC while you're watching stuff.
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Google Says, "Goodbye Purchased Google Videos"
Word on the Web is Google are shutting down their—not so hot—premium service branch of Google Video. This would not be a big deal if upon closing any content that was purchased still remained playable—but this is a big deal because any purchased content will be rendered useless when Goggle sticks the knife in on August 15, 2007. More »Help Google Deliver Email In a Gmail Video
When you send an email through Gmail, hundreds of Google engineers leap from their chairs to help deliver the message. It's like P2P, but with bikes. They are doing a video all about it, and you can contribute to it if you hurry: More »
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Flip Video Lowers Bar For YouTube Videos Even More
If you had a hard enough time wading through the millions of horrible home videos to get to the good ones on YouTube now, wait until old people start putting stuff up there. Pure Digital's Flip Video camcorder is designed to be easy to use for non-techies, complete with built-in USB adapter and software to make it easy to upload to YouTube, Google Video or Grouper. More »
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Hands-On Impressions: Streaming YouTube and Google Video to the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3
If you're not familiar with Orb, it's both a streaming and a broadcasting solution to get audio and video onto your TV. They've just introduced a new version of Orb MyCasting that works with the Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 game consoles. This means you can now play back pictures, music, and movies sitting on your computer directly on your TV through your gaming system. The Xbox 360 could do this already, and so could the PS3 (somewhat), but the Wii was a bit more limited. More »
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Google "Warns" ISPs About Online Video, Suggests Google Video
Google has come out and warned ISPs that the Internet can't handle people watching TV or movies on it. With the large file sizes of video, especially HDTV, they say that major infrastructure upgrades are needed to meet upcoming user demand. More »Inventor of Crappy Electric Slide: Stop Dancing Like Crap
Richard Silver, inventor of the totally awesome-except-not Electric Slide, has been filing DMCA requests left and right against YouTube and other outlets to make them pull down videos of people performing the dance—if you can call it that. Not only does he claim a copyright on the moves, *snicker* but he says that
Any video that shows my choreography being done incorrectly is being removed. I don't want future generations having to learn it wrong and then relearn it as I am being faced with now because of certain sites and (people) that have been teaching it incorrectly and without my permission. That's the reason I (copyrighted) it in the first place.Dear Richard, you can have it back, all to yourself. Love, Gizmodo. More »
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Hope You've Got Broadband: Here Come Google Video Ads
Using its nearly ubiquitous AdSense network, Google is going to start delivering video ads from The Wall Street Journal, Life/Style Television and others to a small group of sites that choose to test the new program. Like their standard text ads, the video ones will be determined contextually. Of course, we can expect this relatively small-scale "experiment" to expand dramatically over the next year, so start girding your loins (or bandwidth) now. More »
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