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This article was written on February 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

Viacom who owns brands like BET, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike TV and several others, has demanded that YouTube remove 100,000 videos.  That’s over 1.2 billion streams that are to be removed immediately. According to several sources, Viacom had been negotiating with YouTube for several months.  Apparently there were disagreements or the deal wasn’t going anywhere for Viacom to make such a demand.

In a statement from Viacom, they say:

“Filtering tools promised repeatedly by YouTube and Google have not been put in place, and they continue to host and stream vast amounts of unauthorized video. YouTube and Google retain all of the revenue generated from this practice, without extending fair compensation to the people who have expended all of the effort and cost to create it. The recent addition of YouTube-served content to Google Video Search simply compounds this issue. …. Our hope is that YouTube and Google will support a fair and authorized distribution model that allows consumers to continue to enjoy our very popular content now and in the future.”

Just last week, Google announced that YouTube video results would appear in the Google Video search index. It’s interesting that Viacom points that out in their statement above as compounding their issues with YouTube.  Now it’s not just about YouTube anymore, with Google holding the reigns. Eventually the lawsuits will start flowing in, and Google will have to make an executive decision over what to do with copyrighted material that consistently makes its’ way into the video results.

So, say good-bye to the loads of Daily Show clips, The Colbert Show, and other popular shows that are floating around YouTube, like the Bill Gates episode with over 467,000 views. They’re still up as of now, but you can bet they won’t be there for long (Another source for these shows is www.colbertondemand.com ).

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We’ve previously reported on this site about the official Rakuten Auction channel on NicoNico Douga. Now here’s another corporate-endorsed video, one that appears to smash, literally, out of the screen. Get in the driving seat for the Need For Speed: Shift video, a showcase for the Electronic Arts racing video game.

On top of the usual user comments scrolling across the screen, you will soon notice the damage caused by the reckless driver: grass spraying to the left, the screen “windshield glass” smashing, the text boxes collapsing…

It is interesting to note here how an American video game company is using a highly Japanese media to interact with local users in an original way. NicoNico Douga continues to be one of the most creative online forums around: we’ve previously reported on the Excell spreadsheet animation that caused a storm.

However, this is not completely new, nor is it limited just to Nico Nico Douga. Just last year there was the Warioland Shake-It YouTube video that literally seemed to destroy the window you were watching the video in…

JVC today entered the fast-paced pocket camcorder (see also, YouTube camcorders) space with the introduction of the Picsio GC-FM1, a palm-sized hi-def camera. Spec-wise the camera looks a lot like the Kodak zi8, which recently snagged our Editors’ Choice.

The camera shoots in 1080p, 720p, VGA, and QVGA modes, and can snap still in up to 8MP. There’s an on-board HDMI port, image stabilizer, SD card slot (expandable up to 32GB), a 2.0 LCD, image stabilizer, and direct upload to YouTube and, interestingly, iTunes (files are saved as .MOV).

Frankly, what really sets this camera apart is its looks. It comes in (brace yourself) Black Ice, Blue Steel, and Purple Passion, all of which have, to quote JVC, “a tone-on-tone geometric pattern and chrome accents for a jewel-like appearance.” The company is targeting the camera’s firmly toward the female demographic.

Intel’s making a big TV push here at IDF, and a lot of it centers around the CE 3100 Media Processor, which combines an 800MHz Pentium M core with a proprietary video processing core all on one chip. That’s about as much power as a 1.2GHz Atom, and it’s enabled some pretty cool demos, like this box that’s running a custom Flash Lite UI on top of Linux. The video silicon accelerates H.264 playback, so newer YouTube content looked fantastic — some of the best big-screen YouTube we’ve ever seen actually. That’s all the software was optimized for, however — older content that required software decoding looked much worse, and playback wasn’t stellar. That’s down to optimization, though, and we’re willing to forgive it, especially since the demo was put together in two weeks or so. Of course, the big question when you’re looking at an IA core running Flash is whether or not this rig can do Hulu on a big screen, and the answer was cautious but optimistic: it’s technically possible and even somewhat easy, but as usual it all comes down to Hulu allowing it. (What else did you expect?) Still, it’s interesting to see a set-top box with some actual processing power, and Intel’s got some more interesting demos for us coming up, including a three-tuner Tru2Way HTPC that can send video to a PS3. Video after the break!

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What you’re looking at here is the latest addition to the Sony Blu-ray family. The BDP-N460 seemingly fits right in between the BDP-S360 and the BDP-S560 with an MSRP of $249. What sets it apart from its little brother is the fact that it can use its included network jack for more than just BD-Live and it features a USB port on the front, in addition to the one on the back for optional BD-Live storage. There’s no built in WiFi or MKV support like other brands though, but it is shipping with access to YouTube and to Bravia Internet Video, and in addition Sony promises Netflix Watch Instantly later this fall. No word on whether this means the end for the BDP-S360, but considering the price and improved features of the 460, that’s where we’d put our money.

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