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3D Televison
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010To hi tech how 3D TV technology works, one must find out how our eyes work. Our eyes are several centimeters apart from each other and therefore receive the input image from different positions. Our brain uses that information and is smart enough to mesh the two seperate images into one single view, creating depth, and making what we see 3 dimensional or 3D.
3D TV sets work in somewhat theewhat the way, one way or another they transmit two special images to your eyes in a very precise way that it knows your brain will alter the incoming image into 3D after processing it.
Tricking the brain like this is no easy task, and for for some time now the simple and cheap technology was to wear colored glasses that had a large drawback of limiting the number of colors that you could enjoy a movie in.
Today, bigger TV manufactures such as Sony have improved on the process that with shutter glasses the full spectrum of colors can be enjoyed. Panasonic is one of the manufactures that has manufactured an auto stereoscope system that will make it possibleke it possible make 3D viewing possible without the need of uncomfortable glasses at all.
All in all, the 3D TV industry is still in its first phase, but many leading companies are investing seriously into it in hopes that it will be the next big business. If movies such as Avatar are anything to go by, the chances of success are pretty extreme. Now it is up to the industry to improve technology and make it less of a burden, reduce prices, and generate enough content through 3D games, 3D movies, 3D episodes of popular series, and 3D TV channels.
British Pop Act JLS Are Nominated for Three Brit Awards for Best Group, Breakthrough Act and Best Single
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Pop group JLS have been nominated for three Brit Awards. JLS are up for the British Group, British Breakthrough and Best Single categories for Beat Again. The news comes after the band confirmed that they are due to release their next single in February 2010. The JLS One Shot music video has already been released on video sharing sites.
The band rose to fame on the reality TV show X-Factor and have since gone onto have great success in both the UK singles and album charts. The band managed to stave off competition from one of the UK’s biggest stars in Robbie Williams when their debut album entered at number one instead of Williams’ latest effort.
The group have played a number of large tours since their stint on X-Factor and are now arguably one of the biggest boy band groups in the UK. The band’s nominations for three Brit Awards seals a successful year in music for them. There are now plans for the band to try and break the USA where it is thought that Simon Cowell’s influence and their radio-friendly sound will translate into record sales in America. Other acts nominated for Brit Awards include Lady Gaga and Alexandra Burke.
Can Music Videos Help Make Youtube Profitable
Friday, October 16th, 2009YouTube is on the path to profitability in the “not-too-distant future,” Google reiterated today during its third quarter earnings call. And while that may sounds all well and good, they actually had some more specific impressive numbers to back it up. They announced they are making money partly from music videos and pre-roll ads.
One is that YouTube is now monetizing over a billion video views a week. Last week, YouTube announced that it was serving over 1 billion video views a day, so if you do the math there, it means that YouTube is monetizing one every seven video views.
The company also noted that 90% of the top 50 advertisers according to AdAge have now run ads on YouTube. And of its homepage ad inventory, 90% of it sold out for the quarter in the U.S., with lower, but still impressive sale rates for the rest of the world. Google also noted that YouTube was just starting to unleash its pre-roll inventory and let its salesforce have a go at selling that to advertisers, which should bring in more money.
And with Warner Music Group back in the mix, they now have the four major music labels playing ball again. As a one-stop shop for many music videos, YouTube will also be able to sell ads against those, as well as make some money off of affiliate sales from iTunes and Amazon’s MP3 store.
Earlier this month, CNET uncovered that Google CEO Eric Schmidt admitted under oath that the company paid a $1 billion premium when it bought YouTube in 2006 (for $1.65 billion). The thought was always that the site was growing so quickly that they would scoop it up and figure out how to monetize it later. It would appear that they’re getting close to doing just that ? albeit three years later.