Disney Touts a Way to Ditch the DVD - Wall Street Journal
Purchase of a 'Keychest' Movie Would Allow On-Demand Viewing From Multiple Devices
The technology, code-named Keychest, could contribute to a shift in what it means for a consumer to own a movie or a TV show, by redefining ownership as access rights, not physical possession.
This is in direct competition with DECE (Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem).
Supposedly, Keychest will use cloud-computing coupled with a physical product (e.g. a DVD), that will only require the person to pay for the rights so that it could be watched on any device.
"Dad has a Zune, Mom has an iPod, there's a Mac and a PC at home and a Roku box; right now, those devices don't talk to one another," the insider said. "We intend to blend those worlds." from the Hollywood Reporter
Friday, December 04, 2009
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE)
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (or DECE)
based around a "rights locker" which will amount to a website where digital purchases will be stored -- we assume this is where VeriSign fits in. (from article link below)
http://www.decellc.com/
DECE founding members include: Alcatel Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast Corporation, Deluxe Digital, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Lionsgate, Microsoft Corporation, NBC Universal, Panasonic, Paramount Pictures, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sony Corporation, Toshiba, VeriSign Inc., and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Disney and Apple are absent from the list and appears to have allied to set up a completing service called Keychest.
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the DRM of the future?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/13/digital-entertainment-content-ecosystem-the-drm-of-the-future/
based around a "rights locker" which will amount to a website where digital purchases will be stored -- we assume this is where VeriSign fits in. (from article link below)
http://www.decellc.com/
DECE founding members include: Alcatel Lucent, Best Buy, Cisco, Comcast Corporation, Deluxe Digital, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Lionsgate, Microsoft Corporation, NBC Universal, Panasonic, Paramount Pictures, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung, Sony Corporation, Toshiba, VeriSign Inc., and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Disney and Apple are absent from the list and appears to have allied to set up a completing service called Keychest.
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, the DRM of the future?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/13/digital-entertainment-content-ecosystem-the-drm-of-the-future/
Best Buy - CinemaNow to stream first-run DVDs
Good article:
Best Buy partnering with CinemaNow to stream first-run DVDs to 'all web-connected devices sold' 11/3/2009
Best Buy partnering with CinemaNow to stream first-run DVDs to 'all web-connected devices sold' 11/3/2009
The idea here is simple: pay once for a DVD then eventually be able to play it on any device be it a television, Blu-ray player, PC, smartphone or some other connected device.
Best Buy already announced a streaming Netflix deal and partnerships with TiVo and Napster that will be launching early next year as well.
Hulu Doesn't play well with others.
Currently most high end Blue Ray players can stream content from Netflix, Blockbuster, YouTube and Pandora. Some also offer CinemaNow.
One giant in streaming media web sites is missing Hulu.
On Settopbox devices Sling supports Hulu but Roku does not.
Google Video, Sling.com and Bing.com are the few that seems to have Hulu distribution agreements.
Boxee, TV.com and Rippol all have been forced to remove Hulu content from their sites and applications.
Roku Channel Store Opens, Hulu Is a No-Show Nov 22,2009
Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe, Netflix, MLB.tv and Amazon channels all now available on the Roku player
In Hulu's note to Rippol, the representative stated that "the only way for a company to legitimately embed our videos the way you do is to enter into a structured distribution relationship with us. However, we are currently entering into these very selectively."
According to Hulu: Don't embed, Link instead
Bing Brings Hulu, YouTube and MSN Video
Describing it as a "new unified online video destination," Microsoft says Bing Videos will combine results from ABC, YouTube, Hulu and MSN Videos. Of course, such a product calls for a new homepage, which Microsoft has dutifully rolled out for Bing Videos.
Sling.com Isn’t Really A Hulu Competitor, But Does Offer Compelling Reasons To Make It Your Go-To Web Portal
Hulu is streaming using Adobe's Secure RTMP protocol.
Appian.com software can capture Hulu Video.
New Plugin from Google lets you Stream Hulu and Netflix videos with Frontrow 2/09
Understudy is a plug in for Mac OS X interface Front Row. Users can subscribe to multiple feeds and watch from Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and the BBC iPlayer.
Email from Hulu to Rippol hours after they launched.
Rippol responded with they will never put ads in or around Hulu content.
Hulu responded:
Ad placement would be more relevant to the "non-commercial" part of the TOS vs. the "personal" part. While you may not plan to place ads near our content, Rippol is a commercial business in the sense that you plan to make money from the content service you create. Thus our content on your site is being used for commercial purposes, even if it is indirect (i.e. you attract users with Hulu content but only monetize other content).Note we are not singling out Rippol as we have transitioned other premium video aggregators to our site map feed.
From: Hulu Gets Ripped Out Of Rippol
One giant in streaming media web sites is missing Hulu.
On Settopbox devices Sling supports Hulu but Roku does not.
Google Video, Sling.com and Bing.com are the few that seems to have Hulu distribution agreements.
Boxee, TV.com and Rippol all have been forced to remove Hulu content from their sites and applications.
Roku Channel Store Opens, Hulu Is a No-Show Nov 22,2009
Pandora, Facebook Photos, Revision3, Mediafly, TWiT, blip.tv, Flickr, FrameChannel, Motionbox and MobileTribe, Netflix, MLB.tv and Amazon channels all now available on the Roku player
In Hulu's note to Rippol, the representative stated that "the only way for a company to legitimately embed our videos the way you do is to enter into a structured distribution relationship with us. However, we are currently entering into these very selectively."
According to Hulu: Don't embed, Link instead
Bing Brings Hulu, YouTube and MSN Video
Describing it as a "new unified online video destination," Microsoft says Bing Videos will combine results from ABC, YouTube, Hulu and MSN Videos. Of course, such a product calls for a new homepage, which Microsoft has dutifully rolled out for Bing Videos.
Sling.com Isn’t Really A Hulu Competitor, But Does Offer Compelling Reasons To Make It Your Go-To Web Portal
SlingMedia run Sling.com, a video portal similar to Hulu.com but with a few extra benefits.
NBC and Fox content is actually served from Hulu. Sling and Hulu partnered up to bring that content to Sling users, so you’ll still see the Hulu logo and see the Hulu commercials.
Hulu is streaming using Adobe's Secure RTMP protocol.
Appian.com software can capture Hulu Video.
New Plugin from Google lets you Stream Hulu and Netflix videos with Frontrow 2/09
Understudy is a plug in for Mac OS X interface Front Row. Users can subscribe to multiple feeds and watch from Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and the BBC iPlayer.
Email from Hulu to Rippol hours after they launched.
We saw that you launched today. We want to notify you that you are using our embeds in violation of our terms of service which state specifically that embeds are for personal, non-commercial use only. As such we will plan to block embedding from your site by 12/4. Typically we disable embedding immediately but given that you just launched, we want to give you some time to transition. In the place of the embeds, we can offer you is a site map feed that links back to Hulu for video playback and includes several useful pieces of metadata in a feed. It includes video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, video type, duration info, season number, episode number, air date, expiration date, in addition to the video link on Hulu.com. It is updated every few hours: http:/
Rippol responded with they will never put ads in or around Hulu content.
Hulu responded:
Ad placement would be more relevant to the "non-commercial" part of the TOS vs. the "personal" part. While you may not plan to place ads near our content, Rippol is a commercial business in the sense that you plan to make money from the content service you create. Thus our content on your site is being used for commercial purposes, even if it is indirect (i.e. you attract users with Hulu content but only monetize other content).Note we are not singling out Rippol as we have transitioned other premium video aggregators to our site map feed.
From: Hulu Gets Ripped Out Of Rippol
When Hulu was announced in 2007, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said that Hulu would aim to have "ubiquitous distribution." The press release issued at the time said that Hulu "will actively seek agreements with a variety of additional distribution partners." The release also stated that each "distribution partner will feature the site?s content in an embedded player customized with a look and feel consistent with each site, making the offering organic to each destination."
Stats for video streaming.
Top U.S. Online Video Content providers by videos viewed
October 2009
from comScore Video Metrix
Hulu U.S. video streams soar almost 50% in October, Google’s YouTube flat
October 2009
| Site | videos | % share |
| Google Sites including Youtube | 10,524,187,000 | 37.7 |
| Hulu | 855,559,000 | 3.1 |
| Microsoft sites | 450,957,000 | 1.6 |
| Fox Interactive Media | 446,396,000 | 1.6 |
| Viacom Digital | 407,205,000 | 1.5 |
| Yahoo Sites | 338,035,000 | 1.5 |
| Turner Network | 288,070,000 | 1.0 |
| CBS Interactive | 255,124,000 | 0.9 |
| Facebook.com | 245,422,000 | 0.9 |
| ABC Television | 203,512,000 | 0.7 |
| Total | 27,942,066,000 | 100.0 |
Hulu U.S. video streams soar almost 50% in October, Google’s YouTube flat
Download flash streaming web video content.
http://www.applian.com/ record/download/rip
You can capture Hulu videos, record Skype calls, Record Sirius™ and XM™ Radio, download streaming video clips from Windows Media™, Real™ and Flash™ formats.
They have 2 product of interest:
Replay Capture Suite & Replay Media Catcher
With Replay Media Catcher
Download media from Flash Video, Windows Media and Wowza servers, including any site that uses the HTTP, HTTPS, MMS, RTSP, and RTMP protocols. Replay Media Catcher does not support Adobe Secure RTMP Measures.
For capturing online video, you can download videos from millions of popular places, including:
You can capture Hulu videos, record Skype calls, Record Sirius™ and XM™ Radio, download streaming video clips from Windows Media™, Real™ and Flash™ formats.
They have 2 product of interest:
Replay Capture Suite & Replay Media Catcher
With Replay Media Catcher
Download media from Flash Video, Windows Media and Wowza servers, including any site that uses the HTTP, HTTPS, MMS, RTSP, and RTMP protocols. Replay Media Catcher does not support Adobe Secure RTMP Measures.
For capturing online video, you can download videos from millions of popular places, including:
- YouTube™
- MySpace™
- Daily Motion
- iFilm™
- Metacafe™
- TV Show sites.
- Movie sites.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Inside Netflix
Some Stats for Netflix.
58 Distribution centers.
10 Million customers.
750,000 new customers in the "last six months" this was said around April 09.
46 Million DVD's in it's whole catalog.
2.2 Million movies every day get's processed.
$300 Million annual mail shipping costs.
It looks like it's about 1000 DVD per employee. 180,000 DVD average in the Fremont CA. distribution center, and 180 employees working there.
See video clips below:
Nightline on Netflix
USA TODAY Visits Netflix | Jefferson Graham
USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham visits Netflix's distribution center in Fremont, California to see how some 200,000 DVDs are returned, processed and shipped back out. Behind the scenes at a Netflix distribution center.
Netflix distribution center
King5.com's look inside the Netflix Northwest distribution center.
58 Distribution centers.
10 Million customers.
750,000 new customers in the "last six months" this was said around April 09.
46 Million DVD's in it's whole catalog.
2.2 Million movies every day get's processed.
$300 Million annual mail shipping costs.
It looks like it's about 1000 DVD per employee. 180,000 DVD average in the Fremont CA. distribution center, and 180 employees working there.
See video clips below:
Nightline on Netflix
USA TODAY Visits Netflix | Jefferson Graham
USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham visits Netflix's distribution center in Fremont, California to see how some 200,000 DVDs are returned, processed and shipped back out. Behind the scenes at a Netflix distribution center.
Netflix distribution center
King5.com's look inside the Netflix Northwest distribution center.
Video Industry clips from ABC News.
This is almost not worth putting up here.
I was really looking for a segment where they toured the Netflix distribution facility.
From ABC News 5/21/2009:
Super DVD
From ABC News 2/26/2009:
No More Red Envelopes for Netflix
From ABC News 1/05/2009:
Netflix on TV
From ABC News 2/22/2007:
End of the DVD As Walmart Enters Download market -VIDEO
A downloadable movie may be the wave of the future that kills the DVD format.
Wonder what happened to this last one?
I was really looking for a segment where they toured the Netflix distribution facility.
From ABC News 5/21/2009:
Super DVD
A new model of DVD can hold up to 500 movies.
From ABC News 2/26/2009:
No More Red Envelopes for Netflix
The movie rental company will offer some streaming-only deals for users.
From ABC News 1/05/2009:
Netflix on TV
The rental company and LG are selling televisions that can stream movies.
End of the DVD As Walmart Enters Download market -VIDEO
A downloadable movie may be the wave of the future that kills the DVD format.
Wonder what happened to this last one?
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Final Call for Chapters: Springer Book on Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding
------ Final Call for Chapters ---------------
Springer Book on Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding
To be published in Springer-Verlag in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
We are soliciting high quality chapter submissions for a book of Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding. Extended versions of the best papers from the VECTaR2009 workshop, as well as other high quality submissions will be considered
Introduction
Detecting, interpreting and understanding various video events is one of the ultimate goals of the computer vision system. Despite rapid progress in this area, there are still a significant number of challenges that need to be addressed to enable an automatic video event understanding system. Those challenging include robust detection of event under motion clutters, event interpretation under complex scenes, multi-level semantic event inference, putting event in context and multiple cameras, event inference from object interactions, etc.
To address these and other outstanding challenges, high-quality chapter manuscripts are particularly welcome in the following areas, but not limited to:
o Motion interpretation and grouping
o Human action representation and recognition
o Abnormal event detection
o Contextual event inference
o Event recognition among a distributed camera network
o Multimodal event recognition
o Spatial temporal features for event categorisation
o Hierarchical event recognition
o Probabilistic graph models for event reasoning
o Machine learning for event recognition
o Global/local event descriptors
o Metadata construction for event recognition
o Bottom up and top down approaches for event recognition
o Event-based video segmentation and summarization
o Video event database gathering and annotation
o Efficient indexing and concepts modelling for video event retrieval
o Semantic-based video event retrieval
o Online video event tagging
o Evaluation methodologies for event-based systems
o Event-based applications (security, sports, news, etc.)
Objectives:
This book aims to present state-of-the-art research advances of video event understanding technologies. It will provide researchers and practitioners a richful resource for future research directions and successful practice. It could also serve as a reference tool and handbook for researchers in a number of applications including visual surveillance, human-computer interaction, video search and indexing etc. Its potential audience will be composed of active researchers and practitioners as well as graduate students working on video analysis in various disciplines such as computer vision, pattern recognition, information security, artificial intelligence, etc.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit chapter proposals before November 30, 2009. The chapter proposals should contain a title, an abstract, and the outline of the organization. The proposals will be considered based on the relevance to the book, contribution to the community, as well as the balance of topics. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2009. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2010. All chapter manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed.
Authors should prepare their manuscripts by following the instructions in Springer-Verlag's author's guidelines for the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" at http://www.springer.com/
Submissions of chapter proposals and inquiries should be forwarded by email to the editors at videoevent09@googlemail.com.
Important Dates:
Submission of Chapter Proposals November 30, 2009
Notification of Chapter Proposals December 15, 2009
Submission of Full Chapters April 30, 2010
Final Decision on Accepted Chapters June 15 , 2010
Camera-Ready Submission July 31, 2010
Guest Editors:
Dr. Jianguo Zhang, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr. Ling Shao, The University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Prof. Graeme A. Jones, Kingston University, UK
Contact email address:
videoevent09@googlemail.com
About The Series
The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence – quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural net-works, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hy-brid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.
Indexed by DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink
Springer Book on Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding
To be published in Springer-Verlag in the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
We are soliciting high quality chapter submissions for a book of Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding. Extended versions of the best papers from the VECTaR2009 workshop, as well as other high quality submissions will be considered
Introduction
Detecting, interpreting and understanding various video events is one of the ultimate goals of the computer vision system. Despite rapid progress in this area, there are still a significant number of challenges that need to be addressed to enable an automatic video event understanding system. Those challenging include robust detection of event under motion clutters, event interpretation under complex scenes, multi-level semantic event inference, putting event in context and multiple cameras, event inference from object interactions, etc.
To address these and other outstanding challenges, high-quality chapter manuscripts are particularly welcome in the following areas, but not limited to:
o Motion interpretation and grouping
o Human action representation and recognition
o Abnormal event detection
o Contextual event inference
o Event recognition among a distributed camera network
o Multimodal event recognition
o Spatial temporal features for event categorisation
o Hierarchical event recognition
o Probabilistic graph models for event reasoning
o Machine learning for event recognition
o Global/local event descriptors
o Metadata construction for event recognition
o Bottom up and top down approaches for event recognition
o Event-based video segmentation and summarization
o Video event database gathering and annotation
o Efficient indexing and concepts modelling for video event retrieval
o Semantic-based video event retrieval
o Online video event tagging
o Evaluation methodologies for event-based systems
o Event-based applications (security, sports, news, etc.)
Objectives:
This book aims to present state-of-the-art research advances of video event understanding technologies. It will provide researchers and practitioners a richful resource for future research directions and successful practice. It could also serve as a reference tool and handbook for researchers in a number of applications including visual surveillance, human-computer interaction, video search and indexing etc. Its potential audience will be composed of active researchers and practitioners as well as graduate students working on video analysis in various disciplines such as computer vision, pattern recognition, information security, artificial intelligence, etc.
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit chapter proposals before November 30, 2009. The chapter proposals should contain a title, an abstract, and the outline of the organization. The proposals will be considered based on the relevance to the book, contribution to the community, as well as the balance of topics. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2009. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by April 30, 2010. All chapter manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed.
Authors should prepare their manuscripts by following the instructions in Springer-Verlag's author's guidelines for the series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" at http://www.springer.com/
Submissions of chapter proposals and inquiries should be forwarded by email to the editors at videoevent09@googlemail.com.
Important Dates:
Submission of Chapter Proposals November 30, 2009
Notification of Chapter Proposals December 15, 2009
Submission of Full Chapters April 30, 2010
Final Decision on Accepted Chapters June 15 , 2010
Camera-Ready Submission July 31, 2010
Guest Editors:
Dr. Jianguo Zhang, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Dr. Ling Shao, The University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Prof. Graeme A. Jones, Kingston University, UK
Contact email address:
videoevent09@googlemail.com
About The Series
The series "Studies in Computational Intelligence" (SCI) publishes new developments and advances in the various areas of computational intelligence – quickly and with a high quality. The intent is to cover the theory, applications, and design methods of computational intelligence, as embedded in the fields of engineering, computer science, physics and life science, as well as the methodologies behind them. The series contains monographs, lecture notes and edited volumes in computational intelligence spanning the areas of neural net-works, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, self-organizing systems, soft computing, fuzzy systems, and hy-brid intelligent systems. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution - this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.
Indexed by DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink
Friday, November 20, 2009
Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation
From Slashdot:
"It's great that unelected bureaucrats in California are clamoring to save energy, but when they target your big-screen TVs for elimination, consumers and manufacturers are apt to declare war. CEDIA and the CEA are up in arms over this. Audioholics has an interesting response that involves setting the TVs in 'SCAM' mode to meet the energy criteria technically without having to add additional cost or increase costs to consumers. 'In this mode, the display brightness/contrast settings would be set a few clicks to the right of zero, audio would be disabled and backlighting would be set to minimum. The power consumption should be measured in this mode much like an A/V receiver power consumption is measured with one channel driven at full rated power and the other channels at 1/8th power.' This is an example of an impending train wreck of unintended consequences, and many are grabbing the popcorn and pulling up chairs to watch."
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
E4 NYC Manufacturer Training Sessions
I just got this in the mail. Maybe it's the flu I am suffering from today, but the more I read the less I understand what the hell these guys jabbering on about. Some sort of Free training on Audio and video gear I think. These marketing guys need to be shot.
You'd think there would be at least one line of clear english that explains what this is.
Looks like there are a few interesing talks, if someone read this and goes, please send me a scan of the handout and some summary of the talk please.
I am really interested in:
"Digital Signage Revenue Past the Install: NEC’s Revolutionary Business Platform for the Digital Out-Of-Home Market"
From: http://www.almoproav.net/e4/nyc09/manftraining/
You'd think there would be at least one line of clear english that explains what this is.
Looks like there are a few interesing talks, if someone read this and goes, please send me a scan of the handout and some summary of the talk please.
I am really interested in:
"Digital Signage Revenue Past the Install: NEC’s Revolutionary Business Platform for the Digital Out-Of-Home Market"
From: http://www.almoproav.net/e4/nyc09/manftraining/
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More mail: DVR KIT promotion
Hi John,
Thank you for your time to read this letter.
Does DVR KIT sell well in your country?
Do you ever plan to import some such kits?
Now we have a great promotion on DVR KIT,it is only $157
Good quality as well as competitive price, i believe it will benefit your business directly.
Welcome to contact me for your information.
Thanks & warm regards!
Alinna
Eonboom Electronics Limited
Room 5122, LianMing Commecial Center,
No.151 GuangYuanZhong Road,
GuangZhou, GuangDong China
Website: www.eonboom.com
Email/MSN: alinna@eonboom.com
Skype: alinna.ok
Tel:86-020-86385228
Fax:86-020-86385238
Thank you for your time to read this letter.
Does DVR KIT sell well in your country?
Do you ever plan to import some such kits?
Now we have a great promotion on DVR KIT,it is only $157
Good quality as well as competitive price, i believe it will benefit your business directly.
Welcome to contact me for your information.
Thanks & warm regards!
Alinna
Eonboom Electronics Limited
Room 5122, LianMing Commecial Center,
No.151 GuangYuanZhong Road,
GuangZhou, GuangDong China
Website: www.eonboom.com
Email/MSN: alinna@eonboom.com
Skype: alinna.ok
Tel:86-020-86385228
Fax:86-020-86385238
H.264 network DVR at $69
Wow, $69, I don't know how they can afford to do this.
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I would like to invite your attention again to our product.
Take your time to see what we have and how competitve our products are!
Trust us, we will be your most reliable supplier!
When choosing CANTONK, you will enjoy lots of advantages from us!
※Lead technology
※Guaranteed quality
※Competitive price
※TWO YEARS WARRANTY
※OEM Service
Our product range: CCTV Cameras, accessories, DVRs & Rearview system
Our website: www.cantonk.com
Latest price list will be sent to you upon your request.
Sample order will be taken seriously as well!
Should you need more information about us and our product, please feel free to contact me.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
IR Water-proof Camera for sales at USD15.6/pc,UTP Video Balun at US$1.55/pair
I get this sort of stuff from China all the time, Anyone wanting to put together a group purchase let me know.
John L. Sokol
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Dear Purchaser,
Good day.
The below are Hawell November Promotion items. Believe you will find the price is quite attractive, right?
25M IR Water-proof Camera,1/4 Sharp CCD,420TV lines, 24pcs IR leds
Economical UTP Video Balun,Smart design
Wanna to get it? Pls just contact me now.
Kind regards,
Tarring tarring@cctvhowell.com
Shenzhen Hawell Advanced Technology Co.,Ltd
Website: http://www.cctvhw.com/english/
Tel:86 755 81706890
Fax:86 755 81706890
MSN: tarringhee@hotmail.com
Skype: tarringhee
Address: The 5th building of the 2nd Industrial Park of Yousong
The 1st Road of Donghuan, LongHua Town, Baoan District
Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China
John L. Sokol
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Dear Purchaser,
Good day.
The below are Hawell November Promotion items. Believe you will find the price is quite attractive, right?
25M IR Water-proof Camera,1/4 Sharp CCD,420TV lines, 24pcs IR leds
For sale: US$15.6/PC (MOQ:50PCS)
Economical UTP Video Balun,Smart design
For sale: US$1.55/Pair (MOQ:100 Pairs)
Wanna to get it? Pls just contact me now.
Kind regards,
Tarring tarring@cctvhowell.com
Shenzhen Hawell Advanced Technology Co.,Ltd
Website: http://www.cctvhw.com/english/
Tel:86 755 81706890
Fax:86 755 81706890
MSN: tarringhee@hotmail.com
Skype: tarringhee
Address: The 5th building of the 2nd Industrial Park of Yousong
The 1st Road of Donghuan, LongHua Town, Baoan District
Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China
Hawell Newest Economical H.264 Stand Alone DVR
from tarring@cctvhowell.com
date Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM
subject Hawell Newest Economical H.264 Stand Alone DVR
Hi, dear Sirs,
Good day!
Welcome to inquiry about HAWELL NEWEST 16chs economical H.264 stand alone DVR HW-SVR7216
Main feature :
1. H.264 SOC solution, low power consumption
Skype: tarringhee
date Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM
subject Hawell Newest Economical H.264 Stand Alone DVR
Hi, dear Sirs,
Good day!
Welcome to inquiry about HAWELL NEWEST 16chs economical H.264 stand alone DVR HW-SVR7216
Main feature :
1. H.264 SOC solution, low power consumption
2. D1 preview resolution
3. 16chs video input, 4chs audio input; 1chs audio output
4. Support multi-users ( Server and clients )
5. Support network connecting
6. SATA HDD, USB/ CD&DVD-RW/network backup
7. Mouse /IR remote controller control, 1ch VGA output
If any doubt, just contact me freely.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Shenzhen Hawell Advanced Technology Co.,Ltd
Tel:86 755 81706890
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Skype: tarringhee
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV?
I can relate to this article from Slashdot:
"A flurry of announcements from YouTube, Boxee, Dell and Clicker on Thursday brought good news for anyone considering canceling their cable service in favor of internet TV. First, YouTube announced that within the next few days it will start offering full 1080P HD streams; better than your cable company can offer. Next, Boxee announced a 'Boxee Box' that promises to make it easier to get the content off your computer and onto your TV. Or you could hook up Dell's Inspiron Zino HD instead. 'This is an 8" x 8" PC running Windows 7 (with an option for Ubuntu) that you certainly could use as a desktop machine, but the form factor just screams 'Hook me up to your TV!' via its HDMI port,' says Peter Smith. And, last but not least in this roundup of announcements is the launch of Clicker, a programming guide for internet TV that aims to help you find what you want, when you want it."
Collaborate, promote distribute across The internet
This is a collage of small and upcoming video related web sites that I have run across.
Livestream (formerly known as Mogulus), the production control room was one fixed location, and all collaborators in the process had to be in the same building. Remote cameras for communication were possible, but also expensive since they required satellite feeds.
Older Mogulus commercial, very cool.
Livestream can mix videos from several sources such as web cams, video clips from YouTube, user content into your own live TV program in real-time and broadcast live.
A production team can be scattered in locations around the world, and still work together as if they were in the same room, a virtual news studio in a sense. Satellite feeds are obsolete, since remote cameras are now inexpensive and easy.
It also supports animated television graphics and can look like a major network broadcast using it graphics library that includes a ticker, bumper, lower third name, and logo bug.
Other live free flash based video streaming sites are:
Stickam offers live streaming video and claims to be the largest live streaming social network.
Justin.tv
UStream
Other interesting sites are:
Qik is mobile application that allows you to stream live video from your cell phone and broadcast live.
AnyClip allows you to find any moment from any film, instantly.
SoundCloud is similar to Livestream for audio. It's online audio platform caters to music professionals enabling them to collaborate, promote distribute their music. SoundCloud provides a efficient and simple way for music professionals to exchange music they are involved with in private settings allowing for easy collaboration and communication prior to a public release.
From the Big Brother dept.
Affective Interfaces Uses a webcam and emotion sensing technology, to capture customer’s facial expressions in response a product and can help uncover non rational influences affecting decisions of purchase and engagement. It will apply statistical data gathering to bring some understanding of how people are feeling a brand, products and messaging.
Livestream (formerly known as Mogulus), the production control room was one fixed location, and all collaborators in the process had to be in the same building. Remote cameras for communication were possible, but also expensive since they required satellite feeds.
Older Mogulus commercial, very cool.
Livestream can mix videos from several sources such as web cams, video clips from YouTube, user content into your own live TV program in real-time and broadcast live.
A production team can be scattered in locations around the world, and still work together as if they were in the same room, a virtual news studio in a sense. Satellite feeds are obsolete, since remote cameras are now inexpensive and easy.
It also supports animated television graphics and can look like a major network broadcast using it graphics library that includes a ticker, bumper, lower third name, and logo bug.
Other live free flash based video streaming sites are:
Stickam offers live streaming video and claims to be the largest live streaming social network.
Justin.tv
UStream
Other interesting sites are:
Qik is mobile application that allows you to stream live video from your cell phone and broadcast live.
AnyClip allows you to find any moment from any film, instantly.
SoundCloud is similar to Livestream for audio. It's online audio platform caters to music professionals enabling them to collaborate, promote distribute their music. SoundCloud provides a efficient and simple way for music professionals to exchange music they are involved with in private settings allowing for easy collaboration and communication prior to a public release.
From the Big Brother dept.
Affective Interfaces Uses a webcam and emotion sensing technology, to capture customer’s facial expressions in response a product and can help uncover non rational influences affecting decisions of purchase and engagement. It will apply statistical data gathering to bring some understanding of how people are feeling a brand, products and messaging.
Analysis of network Blueray players. Don't blink!
Don't blink things are moving fast! I can't believe how fast device manufactures are adopting Internet streaming and how many deals have been cut on the back end. So let me start with a particular arbitrary Blueray player and work backwards from there.
I have been reading through the Samsung BD-P3600 manual, not that I have particular reason for looking at Samsung first I just happen to hit it first in Google.
LG actually seems to be the most active in this area, and if I have the time I will go through their product manuals also.
I suspect most of the Blue Ray Profile 2.0 players are offering very similar functionality.
The Samsung Blueray players supports 4 streaming web sites:
BlockBuster
For those not in the United States, they are the Largest Brick and Morter movie rental company. Starting with VHS and now mostly DVD and starting to offer BlueRay and rumors of SD and USB Flash Drives. I will be writing an article on this next.
When examining the Samsung manual I found a really interesting thing.
The images below was grabbed from the PDF of the Samsung BD-P3600 manual
Notice the little "Powered by Cinema Now" at the bottom right of the Blockbuster menu screen.
Wow! I must have blinked and missed this.
CinemaNow is interesting because they offer a Streaming movie rental service too.
They were aquired by Roxio some time back. Roxio does DVD creation software.
Seems a deal was cut in January of 2009
Blockbuster finally makes big online move with CinemaNow
Blockbuster is still looking for ways to compete with Netflix. With a new partnership announced today, the video rental chain will now offer online movie streaming through CinemaNow, but playing catch-up won't be enough to overtake its popular competitor.
Roxio is a division of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Solutions
VERITAS ?!?! They make enterprise backup software NetBackup. What they heck are they doing here!
Sonic to Acquire CinemaNow Nov 2008
This picture gives you some Idea of what the menu screens on the BlueRay player look like.
Sorry the manual was only in Black and White.
Next YouTube.
I hope you are all familiar with by now. You know now owned by Google.
Above is what YouTube looked like in the manual.
BD-LIVE
What is BD-LIVE, this is all they had in the manual.
From Wikipedia
Web site What is BD-LIVE?
USE of Opensource GPL Code!
I have been reading through the Samsung BD-P3600 manual, not that I have particular reason for looking at Samsung first I just happen to hit it first in Google.
LG actually seems to be the most active in this area, and if I have the time I will go through their product manuals also.
I suspect most of the Blue Ray Profile 2.0 players are offering very similar functionality.
The Samsung Blueray players supports 4 streaming web sites:
- Blockbuster
- Netflix
- Pandora
- Youtube
- Surprisingly they are not supporting HULU!
- BD-LIVE
BlockBuster
For those not in the United States, they are the Largest Brick and Morter movie rental company. Starting with VHS and now mostly DVD and starting to offer BlueRay and rumors of SD and USB Flash Drives. I will be writing an article on this next.
When examining the Samsung manual I found a really interesting thing.
The images below was grabbed from the PDF of the Samsung BD-P3600 manual
Notice the little "Powered by Cinema Now" at the bottom right of the Blockbuster menu screen.
Wow! I must have blinked and missed this.
CinemaNow is interesting because they offer a Streaming movie rental service too.
They were aquired by Roxio some time back. Roxio does DVD creation software.
Seems a deal was cut in January of 2009
Blockbuster finally makes big online move with CinemaNow
Blockbuster is still looking for ways to compete with Netflix. With a new partnership announced today, the video rental chain will now offer online movie streaming through CinemaNow, but playing catch-up won't be enough to overtake its popular competitor.
Roxio is a division of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Solutions
Sonic Solutions was created in 1986 by former Lucasfilm employees who developed the SoundDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droidworks project. (Another notable spinoff of the project is Pixar.)
In 2002, Sonic spun off their entire audio division as Sonic Studio, LLC, to concentrate solely on the DVD marketplace. With the acquisition of the Desktop and Mobile Division (DMD) of VERITAS Software Corporation in 2002 and the acquisition of Roxio in 2003, Sonic increased its focus on consumer media creation software
VERITAS ?!?! They make enterprise backup software NetBackup. What they heck are they doing here!
Sonic to Acquire CinemaNow Nov 2008
Sonic's technology solutions and Roxio applications power the management and playback of Hollywood content on PCs and CE devices
This picture gives you some Idea of what the menu screens on the BlueRay player look like.
Sorry the manual was only in Black and White.
Next YouTube.
I hope you are all familiar with by now. You know now owned by Google.
Above is what YouTube looked like in the manual.
BD-LIVE
What is BD-LIVE, this is all they had in the manual.
From Wikipedia
The biggest difference between Bonus View and BD-Live is that BD-Live requires the Blu-ray Disc player to have an Internet connection (usually via a standard Ethernet RJ-45 network port) to access Internet-based content. BD-Live features have included Internet chats, scheduled chats with the director, Internet games, downloadable featurettes, downloadable quizzes, and downloadable movie trailers.[86][87][88]
Web site What is BD-LIVE?
USE of Opensource GPL Code!
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