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Category: Streaming Video

  • VUDU Integrates Technology

      Rating:  5 WaterTowers (awesome integration of technologies in the home) What is VUDU? VUDU is a device that uses peer-to-peer video streaming to deliver high definition (or standard definition) movies to your TV via the Internet. As you may know from my previous posts on VUDU, I think it is one of the best technologies to come…

  • Librestream Onsight Review

    Librestream Onsight Review

    Update July 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing! Enjoy. 🙂 Rating: 5 WaterTowers Every now and then I see a product that blows me away.  It has been happening a lot lately (a good sign for technology) and it happened again last week with the Librestream Onsight. The fact that it is one-way…

  • Inauguration Online Video Viewing Stats

    According to this report on CNN, the Internet broke some records during the Inauguration yesterday.   Really quickly:  1. Akamai says that 7.7 million people watched at the same time ( I suppose that means the peak simultaneous usage was 7.7 mil).   2. Over a time span of hours, CNN hosted almost 27 million…

  • CES on YouTube

    Can’t make it to Las Vegas for the CES Show? Not to worry, you can still catch up on many of the happenings with live video feeds and stored video on YouTube. Here is an example of what you can find there.  An interview with Chris Brogan (sorry, I must be out of it, but…I…

  • Proclaim by NetBriefings Update

    Proclaim by NetBriefings Update

    UPDATE August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing and collaboration. Enjoy! 🙂 Last year I posted a couple of entries (here is my review) on Proclaim by Netbriefings.  Today, I decided to grab another Free Trial and give it a quick whirl for all the new readers to this blog. After I signed…

  • Cisco to Introduce Home Products

    Update Jan 7 2009:  CES almost has started in Las Vegas (see this CNN article).  They say attendance is down.  Still pretty darn big if you ask me!  I was CTO at the now defunct “TeleCon” Conference and we were happy to get 20,000 attendees.  But, I’m pretty sure that live shows will, over time,…

  • VUDU Introduces HDX

    VUDU Introduces HDX

    UPDATE July 2023: This is a History lesson in streaming video. Enjoy! 🙂 If you have not yet experienced VUDU Internet streaming of movies…..now may be the time. As you may know, I am a big fan of VUDU and now even more so. Check out my review of VUDU here. With over 6000 movie…

  • Watching the Olympics on NBC.com

    UPDATE June 2023: This is soooo old even the pictures are gone! 🙂 Consider this a cool HISTORY lesson on streaming video, WAY BEFORE, streaming video was a thing. Rating: 5 WaterTowers OK..this is COOL I went to the nbc.com web site and signed up (all you need is your Zip code and browser…yes, Firefox…

  • Embed Video on a Blog

    It is actually very easy to embed a video on a blog. On YouTube, there is an easy way to grab a bit of code called: embed. Hmmmm, words that say what they mean. In a Blog, such as this one, you have to go into the “Edit HTML” mode and paste the embed code…

  • Cool Application: AT&T Video Share

    I was poking around the Internet looking for 3G cell phone video conferencing applications (I did NOT find one, by the way) when I ran across the AT&T Video Share app. This is interesting even though it is only one way video (it has two way audio). With the right phone and the right service,…