Digital Video Recorder

New Canon EOS 5D MKII Camera Brings State-Of-The-Art Digital Video To The Mainstream

Sep 25th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder

Vincent Laforet filmed this short video that demonstrates the image quality of the Canon EOS 5D MKII. 
The footage is amazing enough - but the fact that it was shot with a consumer DLSR is even more amazing. The camera can shoot about 8 minutes straight of higher than HD video. 
The camera is expected to sell for [...]



New Eskimohunter Shot Entirely With Nokia Nseries Cell Phones

Sep 17th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video, iPods & Portable Media Players

Think you need more gear to make that video podcast/music video/movie/viral video hit?
Think again. 
This video, for the Eskimohunter’s Surfing at 32ºF, was shot entirely on Nokia Nseries cell phones.
“Each of the Nokia Nseries devices I used was perfectly suited to the kind of experimental, ‘out-there’ shots I wanted to capture for ‘Surfing at 32ºF’,” says director Mike Hodgkinson. “For [...]



Broadcast Live From Your iPhone With Flixwagon

Jun 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Mobile Podcasting, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs, iPhone

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client.
Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement:
While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK supports video. [...]



Pure Digital Intros Pocket-Sized Flip Video Mino

Jun 4th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Podcasting Hardware, Video

Pure Digital Technologies today introduced the Flip Video Mino, a tiny new addition to its line of YouTube-ready Flip Video camcorders. The Mino is designed to be small enough to fit into your pocket.
The $179.99 (MSRP) Mino includes built-in software that lets you plug the camcorder’s flip-out USB arm into your computer for immediate editing [...]



USB VCR Rips Videos To Your Computer

May 30th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video

Remember VHS tapes?
Ion Audio has introduced the VCR 2 PC - a VHS player with USB output. The player comes with software that lets you burn your videos to DVD or watch on your PSP, iPod or laptop computer.
You can also connect VHS, VHS-C, or 8MM camcorders to the front panel jacks to backup camcorder [...]



Revision3 Podcast Network Hacked, Attacked By MediaDefender

May 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Featured Story, General, Internet TV, Podcast Distribution, Video

Jim Louderback, CEO of podcasting/new media network Revision3, has an explanation for why his site died over Memorial Day weekend: they were hacked and attacked by MediaDefender, a company that works for the music and film industries doing anti-piracy work.

“Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes, without our approval,” says Louderback. “They willingly admitted to abusing Revision3’s network, over a period of months, by injecting a broad array of torrents into our tracking server.”



ooVoo Introduces Real-Time Video Conversation Recording

Feb 6th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, General, Podcasting Services, Video

Real-time video chat site ooVoo today announced the release of the newest version of its real-time video chat service, ooVoo 1.5. ooVoo 1.5 offers new ways to create and share content including recording a video conversation for friends or colleagues or for posting online.
The video recording services is designed so that you can record conversations [...]



CES: Podcasting Coming To TiVo

Jan 9th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Video, Video Podcasts

CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.
The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities to [...]



CES Preview: Archos TV

Jan 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Digital Video Recorder, Video

At the upcoming 2008 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Archos will introduce a new set-top box, imaginatively named Archos TV, that promises to give Apple TV some real competition.
Here the details (preliminary):

80GB ($249) and 250GB ($349) versions
Onscreen recording guide
640×480 digital video recorder
Cool QWERTY remote control
Infrared emitter for controlling your cable box or TV
Built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet [...]



DRM’d Music Is Dead; DRM’d Video Is Next

Jan 4th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Digital Video Recorder, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

DRM’d music is dead. DRM’d video will be next.
As CD sales plummet, the record labels have realized that they have to get with the 21st century. They have to have a place on your iPod, if they expect you to listen to them, and they have to get rid of DRM if they want to [...]