Video news on the web
YouTube to support 1080p high-definition videos
YouTube says starting next week it will support the same high-resolution video that can now be seen on flat screen TVs. The online video unit of Google Inc. said Thursday it will support video playback in the full high-definition format known as 1080p, upgrading from the current 720p.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091113/ap_on_hi_te/us_google_youtube1080p
CNN Cuts Back on a Web Video Project
CNN laid off its four Web anchors on Thursday and said it had stopped producing continuous live video for CNN.com, curtailing one of the Internet’s biggest news experiments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/business/media/13anchor.html?_r=1
Merry Christmas, folks:
Could this finally be the season for Web TV? We’ve heard that Web-on-your-TV convergence promise for more than a decade, with ambitious efforts to make it happen including AOL TV and WebTV Networks. Each time, the optimists have been wrong. This year might be different.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2009-11-13-1Awebtv13_CV_N.htm
