Commericial acquisitions and mergers were a 20th Century phenomenon that
allowed companies to grow and prosper. In the first and second decades
of the 21st Century, those types of business practices may be
antiquated. "Acqhire," is a neologism recently added to our lexicon to
indicate when a social networking company is acquiring a start-up
company mainly for its talent versus its infrastructure.
The YouTube app for iOS updated today with a cool new feature that allows your iOS device to pair with a select number of smart TVs and set-top boxes in order to push videos from your device to the television. YouTube says it’s just another way they’re working to make it “super easy to watch YouTube on any screen.” The update is available now.
As for what smart TVs and various other home theater devices that the YouTube app works with, the company says that it’s compatible with Bang & Olufsen, LG, Panasonic and Sony devices right now. However, companies such as Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Toshiba, Vizio, and Western Digital will add support later this year, with even more companies to add to the list later on as well.
So technically, you won’t need a smart TV, but a receiver or a set-top box will also do the trick. To get your TV and your mobile device synced up, just head into “Settings” and then tap on “Pair YouTube TV.” From there you’ll enter in the “Pairing Code” and the name you want to give the TV. To get the code, open up the YouTube app on your TV.
YouTube also announced that the app is available on over 400 million devices, and over 25% of YouTube’s video viewing comes from mobile devices. That’s technically not too surprising, though, as smartphones and tablets have been taking the world by storm lately, and video watching while on the go is becoming quite prevalent.
YouTube for iOS updates with “send to TV” feature is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The one thing that everyone loves about Instagram is its huge selection of visual filters that you can apply to your photos. However, Vimeo is looking to be the Instagram of videos in a way, by introducing “Looks,” a new feature that allows videographers of all kinds to add visual effects to their videos to give them just the right touch.
In partnership with Vivoom, Vimeo has introduced over 500 visual effects to its video service as part of its “Enhancer” toolbox, which will give creative types the freedom to spice up their videos just a tad in order to give it that spice that they’ve been looking for. After all, most videos on Vimeo are a bit more on the elegant side than those found on YouTube.
Everything can be done directly within the web browser, and users are able to preview each effect in realtime before hitting the “Apply” button, which is a nice feature to have considering that it’s rather annoying applying filters to videos and waiting for it to render before you can see what it looks like.
There are pages and pages and filters to choose from, so Vimeo was kind enough to categorize filters by genre and mood to help you pick the right one quickly and easily. They even recommend a handful of filters that are either popular or Vimeo’s own favorites. Vimeo can even choose an effect automatically “based on technical analysis of the user’s video and social data,” making it sort of an “I’m Feeling Lucky” scenario. “Looks” will be rolling out to users within 90 days.
Vimeo announces “Looks” feature that adds visual filters to video is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Whether it was inspired by the recent Instagram craze or not, Vimeo’s new “Looks” have a pretty good chance of being welcomed with open arms (and eyes) by the video creators on its well-known platform. In partnership with Vivoom, the company announced today that it’s bringing over 500 visual effects to the service as part of its Enhancer toolbox, giving folks the ability to easily add some flavor to their own video productions straight from a web browser. Furthermore, Vimeo’s made it possible to preview these filters in real-time, as well as letting them be somewhat customizable by implementing various editing options, such as trimming and adjusting the intensity of each one. Vimeo also says the novel feature will be able to make recommendations based on “technical analysis of the user’s video and social data,” — in other words, the more you use it, the more likely it is to learn your very own visual preferences.
Thanks to Vivoom’s 16-year experience in the video effects field, Vimeo tells us it only expects the current Looks selection to grow and deliver more of the “highest quality effects,” adding that the main goal is for each and every user to “find what’s best for their personal needs.” Speaking of which, all Vimeo account holders can play with the new Looks at no cost for the next 90 days, although the company wasn’t quite clear as to what we can expect after that period comes to an end.
Update: Vimeo has reached out to let us know that following the 90-day trial, the Looks will cost 99 cents each.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: Vimeo
Apple’s iPhone 5 is small, sleek and portable so it’s no wonder they’re constantly getting lost, scratched and dented… and we won’t even start on those annoying butt dials. Thankfully, Japan’s JTT Online Shop has a solution: the Bunjee Strap for iPhone 5.
After we covered Hotel 626, an online haunted house full of multimedia-rich material that went viral, we found our readers love to have their socks knocked off in horror. Unfortunately, Hotel 626 is no longer online, so we went to work to see where fans of horror games can go next. Check out these other scary online games that will cause your cursor to shake uncontrollably.
It’s not the first miniature car chase to leave us desperately missing our RC toys of yesteryear. But this one perfectly captures the feeling of your stereotypical Hollywood blockbuster car chase—complete with tiny sidewalk cafes for the cars to smash through. More »
We’ve come a long way since the days of Cool World and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? I mean, just look at last December’s blockbuster, The Hobbit. Peter Jackson’s Weta Studios (the same group that created Looper’s skylines and District 9’s extra terrestrial tech) leverages cutting-edge CGI techniques to meld live action and digital animation so seamlessly you’d swear those giant eagles were real. [/Film] More »
There’s a myriad number of techie memes that have entered our zeitgeist
derived from a term we use to simply call "collaboration." Pre-Internet,
dating back to the idiom or trope of "Hey, Lets Put On A Show,"
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney were the first in movies to introduce a
plot line signaling the need for collaboration. Today, instead of
orphans trying to raise money to turn a barn into a stage, filmmakers
are looking to the clouds not only for funding but also inspiration.
Elemental has announced its latest video processing platform intended for on-demand video broadcasting to a variety of devices, including smartphones and PCs, utilizing NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs. Several major brands utilize Elemental’s platform, including Comcast and HBO, for delivering multi-screen video content to their subscribers.
According to Elemental, the key to successfully deploying multi-screen content is by applying software flexibility to powerful hardware, something it says the combination of NVIDIA’s hardware and its own software provides. The company has tailored its Elemental Server and Elemental Live solutions specifically to NVIDIA’s Tesla GPU offerings.
NVIDIA’s General Manager of Media and Entertainment Greg Estes offered this statement: “Elemental pioneered the use of GPUs for high-quality video transcoding, and they continue to innovate by developing new platforms that fully harness the massively parallel processing power of Tesla accelerators. The increased density and throughput available with these new Elemental products will continue to set the standard for enterprise video processing in the industry.”
This move is a step towards meeting an ever-growing market, with IPTV subscriptions anticipated to double by the time 2016 rolls around. According to the research firm TDG, 65-percent of all households in the United States will watch 58 billion hours of video and TV shows on tablet devices by 2017. By combining its solutions with NVIDIA’s GPUs, Elemental is equipping itself to meet the ever-growing demands of the industry.
[via NVIDIA]
NVIDIA and Elemental team up to provide enhanced video processing solutions is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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