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YouTube monthly subscription costs to battle Cable, not Netflix

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Video streaming group YouTube is said to be preparing a Subscriber Channel service this week with aims at taking on the cable business with month-to-month costs and an ala carte option for users. This service would be served up by Google, owners of the video network, and would likely take payment with the Google Wallet digital payment service. This service would be connected to users' Google Accounts much in the same way Google Play takes payment for apps and multimedia. Read The Full Story

Ender’s Game Movie teaser trailer makes major spoiler for the uninitiated

, May 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

For those of you waiting for May 7th to see the first look at footage from the upcoming science fiction movie translation of the book Ender's Game, you're in for a treat. This week the folks at Summit Entertainment have released a teaser for the full trailer complete with an introduction by Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield, they playing two of the main characters from the story. But beware - if you're one of the rare people out there halfway through the book right this moment in preparation for the film, you'll be spoiled heavily. Read The Full Story

Google Glass: 3 videos that will instigate a major perspective shift

, May 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Now that Google Glass is out - at least in its developer edition for those wishing to get in on the party first - it's time to track mind-blowing uses of this technology as they appear. Two of the examples you're seeing below are filmed with the Developer edition of Google Glass, showing us what's possible with some simple experiments. The third is a video that's not brand new, but should blow your mind nontheless: it includes a talk by Tom Chi showing how you'll be able to make a very rudimentary Google Glass yourself. Read The Full Story

YouTube reaches more young viewers than any cable network, says Nielsen

, May 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

YouTube held a Brandcast event in New York today for advertisers during which it was revealed that Dreamworks has acquired YouTube network AwesomenessTV, something that the video service says is one of its networks with the most subscribers. During the event, it was also revealed by Neilsen that YouTube trumps all cable networks in the 18 to 34 age range. Read The Full Story

IBM uses atoms to create world’s smallest movie

, May 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Have you ever wondered what an atom looks like magnified 100 million times and collected together with some other magnified atoms in the shape of a boy, animated, and set to music? If the answer is yes, we've got a short movie after the jump that will make your day. IBM Research, setting out to do something unique and hands-on, has created the world's smallest movie using atoms. Read The Full Story

HTC One “hero” efforts continue with hardware video reinforcement

, Apr 30th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at HTC have made public a video which shows a few insights on the hardware build of their hero phone, the HTC One. With the launch of the HTC One already set or coming up soon for several of the top carriers in the United States (Verizon not included - yet), it appears that HTC is taking the opportunity to assure prospective users of the quality of the metal cuts they've made in their high-end handset. Read The Full Story

Four new Grand Theft Auto V trailers focus on character angles

, Apr 30th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Rockstar Games have pushed four new videos for the upcoming multi-platform game release for Grand Theft Auto V. One of the videos takes an all-in-one approach, making a combined effort to show each of the hero characters for the game: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. Each of these characters will be playable by the user in the game as it's released in the near future - this sort of playability shows Rockstar's understanding of the gamer in our modern gaming market today: they like choices! Read The Full Story

After Earth Day Hangout brings Will Smith and Elon Musk to live chat

, Apr 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

At the time this article is posted, a live video chat is taking place between actors Will Smith, Jaden Smith, and digital citizens of Google's social network. Also invited to this conversation were Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Alexandra Cousteau, and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams. This conversation took place the day after Earth Day, this allowing the conversation to be cleverly titled "The After Earth Day Google+ Hangout", with topics ranging from the conservation of our collective environment to the action-adventure genre in which the film "After Earth" is set. Read The Full Story

ISS experiment confirms state of wrung-out wet towel in space

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has this week returned a request from a couple of high school science students to perform a simple experiment aboard the International Space Station: wringing out water from a wet washcloth. It's shown first that a washcloth on the ISS is stored in a sort of hockey puck form, smashed down to its smallest physical form to avoid taking up any unnecessary space aboard the space station. From there it's a lengthy task just unfolding the piece of material for basic use. Read The Full Story

Amazon releases all 14 original series pilots for free

, Apr 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

We heard back in December that Amazon would be releasing a slew of pilot episodes for the company's original series initiative in order to compete with Netflix. It turns out that there are 14 pilot episodes in total, and all of them are available now for streaming for free. Amazon will be accepting viewer feedback to narrow the pack down to just a handful of shows. Read The Full Story

Star Trek Into Darkness Trailer 3 revealed with major spoilers

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

If you want to know what's going on in the Star Trek movie coming out near the middle of May, you've got two options today. You first option is to wait until May 17th and go to your local movie theater for some up-close-and-personal action like a normal, decent person. Your second option is to watch the newest trailer released for the film today, complete with more spoilers than you'll feel clean about having watched. Read The Full Story

Netflix switching to HTML5 video from Silverlight

, Apr 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

When Microsoft announced that Silverlight would be coming to an end in 2021, it gave companies that utilize the video technology less than a decade to gravitate to an alternative. Perhaps the biggest and most prolific user of Silverlight is Netflix, which takes advantage of its "high-quality streaming experience" for Watch Instantly. Today the company announced that in light of Microsoft's announcement, it will be switching to HTML5 video. Read The Full Story
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