Tag: video
UK Big Brother 2007 hopefuls will be able to apply online
Channel 4 have announced that the next wave of Big Brother hopefuls can audition online. In true YouTube fashion, potential cellmates can upload their audition videos and have them rated by other site users….
Channel 4 claim global first with major video on demand service
Channel 4 claims that it's on the verge of creating a global first in the broadcasting world, by launching a Video on Demand service to broadband subscribers that will see its entire 25 year archive of British-produced programmes made available…
Grouper launches Sony Pictures "ScreenBites" channel
Grouper.com, one of the better known of a plethora of video-sharing sites on the Net, has just opened up a new channel provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Not difficult, given that Sony now owns Grouper. The ScreenBites channel contains famous…
UK consumers are spending more on music and video online
Despite yesterday's survey suggesting that many UK consumers don't want to pay for streaming/downloading, a new survey today by Nielsen/NetRatings says that online music and video sales in the UK are soaring….
PS3's motion-controlled Lair game at the Stuff Show
Highlight of the Stuff show was the three PlayStation 3 consoles lined up for demonstration, with hordes of visitors clustered around them. And pick of the three games on display was Lair, not least because it was being shown in…
New website claims better searching of BBC videos online than the BBC
A new web site set up by a former head of BBC News Online, Bob Eggington, claims that it searches the vast array of the BBC's online videos more extensively that BBC Online's own search algorithms. Eggington's company TV Genius…
The Sun to launch online "How to" videos. Do we love it?
The Sun, Britain's favourite tabloid newspaper (I believe), has done a deal with VideoJug.com to host a number of 'How to' videos on The Sun's website, with ten new ones appearing each week. It will be the latest addition to…
Travelistic video-sharing website launches
A new video sharing website has launched aimed at travellers. Travelistic combines user-generated video content with a variety of professional programming, including exclusive content. It uses Google Maps as a basis for users to find videos of a particular location….
Banning 'happy-slapping' on the web: likely?
UK government ministers want to impose tougher controls on video sharing sites such as YouTube in order to end the sharing and broadcast of violent home-made videos. Whereas "Happy-slapping" (I hate that phrase, it's so misses the point) videos may…
Nearly 30,000 Japanese TV videos removed from YouTube
We in the west seem to have a fascination with Japanese TV, started with the likes of Chris Tarrant and Clive James showing game shows and other intriguing clips that, to be honest, we didn't always understand. That perhaps explains…