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Roku Adds 10 New Free Channels, Sans YouTube

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What use to be a mere gadget that allows geeks to watch Internet TV on their computers is now a full blown Internet media provider. I’m talking about Roku, which has successfully expanded it’s set-top box business to release an iTunes-like store for Internet content channels.

And to kick off with its business of delivering Internet content to its set-top boxes Roku has added 10 free channels to give its users their fix of  Internet-to-TV content. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 23, 2009 @ 1:32 am

Google Adds Auto-Caption Feature in YouTube

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Video captions are useful not only for the hearing impaired and the deaf but also for video owners as well as it improves search findability of videos and machine translation. The thing is adding caption to videos before uploading them can be a pretty dauting task.  The YouTube folks know this, and so they just rolled out two useful features – automatic caption or auto-caps and auto-timing.

Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice for automatically generating video captions. The captions are no where near perfection but since this is a new feature, it is bound to improve in time – hopefully. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 19, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

Dolly Parton Promotes IE8, What Say You Kenny?

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Yeah Mama! She’s one of the most popular singer who is now a mega-millionaire, thanks to her golden singing voice – Dolly Parton. And look what she’s up to now, endorsing Internet Explorer 8, the latest money-making venture from one of the richest company ever known to mankind. Worst, she’s promoting it on YouTube, one web giant’s online property which is struggling to make millions until now. There’s got to be some conspiracy here. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 13, 2009 @ 4:52 pm

Digg Launches DiggTV, One Stop-Destination for Digg Shows

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Are you a fan of Digg’s online TV shows – Diggnation, The Dig Reel, Digg Dialog, and Diggcetera?  Then, you’ll  be glad to know that Digg has rolled out a one-stop destination for all these shows – dubbed DiggTV.

DiggTV lets you watch the said shows from the site or you can subscribe to the shows in iTunes, Miro, Tivo, Vuze and Zune channels. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 11, 2009 @ 7:46 am

Full 1080 HD Video Viewing on YouTube

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Finally, a feature that should have been activated by YouTube a long time ago – full 1080 HD video viewing.  Yup, YouTube just did – turned this on. You can now start watching HD videos the way it should be watch – in full 1080 resolution.

Of course, to enjoy this feature, uploaded should also be produced using HD-capable video camera. The good news is – you won’t have  a hard time finding an affordable and handy HD camera today. Take a gander at Kodak’s Zi6, Flip Mino HD and the likes. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 13, 2009 @ 2:32 am