Archive for January, 2010

You-rent-Tube

Monday, January 25th, 2010
Last Friday saw the Youtube take a step into a new business arena when five movies went live for ‘rental’. Google (who own youtube) see this as a major development to the site and at the end of the day see it as a way to make money through the site. The first films to be shown come from the 2009 and 2010 cult Sundance Film festival although it can only be a matter of time before the big studios get into the act.
Of course, this is nothing new. Hulu is a a joint venture of NBC Universal, News Corp and Walt Disney and proving very popular – there’s also Apple’s Itunes, Amazon and X-box Live.
In other news this week, Spotify we’re being bigged up by the recording industry and it looks like things are going well over in Sweden for them. It seems that they are almost at their required 10% of subscriptions levels to make the system a viable commercial success.
The way we receive our entertainment is changing rapidly. In ten years time we might be saying bye bye to all those DVDs and CDs as we access all our music and films online.

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Last Friday saw the Youtube take a step into a new business arena when five movies went live for ‘rental’. Google (who own youtube) see this as a major development to the site and at the end of the day see it as a way to make money through the site. The first films to be shown come from the 2009 and 2010 cult Sundance Film festival although it can only be a matter of time before the big studios get into the act.

Of course, this is nothing new. Hulu is a a joint venture of NBC Universal, News Corp and Walt Disney and proving very popular – there’s also Apple’s Itunes, Amazon and X-box Live.

In other news this week, Spotify we’re being bigged up by the recording industry and it looks like things are going well over in Sweden for them. It seems that they are almost at their required 10% of subscriptions levels to make the system a viable commercial success.

The way we receive our entertainment is changing rapidly. In ten years time we might be saying bye bye to all those DVDs and CDs as we access all our music and films online.

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Expectation

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
There’s always excitement around when Apple sets up an event yet this time around for “Latest Creation” this seems to have reached fever pitch. We’re all expecting three major things from the guys in San Fran. Firstly updates to iLife … nothing especially interesting here. Then there’s iPhone 4.0 – this is a major upgrade to the iPhone operating system which is said to put the iPhone back in the top spot as more and more devices come to threaten it’s position, the update is meant to make the iPhone more like a fully-fledged computer more than any phone to date.
Of course what everyone is really waiting for is the worst kept secret (by Apple mostly) – the Apple tablet computer. Most interest seems to be on what it’s going to be called – the iSlate, the iTablet, the iPad? We think it’s going to be like a big iPhone ….
Watch this space for what really happens….. the apple “Latest Creation” will be on 27th January and we’ll be reporting here to you…..

apple-logo1There’s always excitement around when Apple sets up an event yet this time around for “Latest Creation” this seems to have reached fever pitch. We’re all expecting three major things from the guys in San Fran. Firstly updates to iLife … nothing especially interesting here. Then there’s iPhone 4.0 – this is a major upgrade to the iPhone operating system which is said to put the iPhone back in the top spot as more and more devices come to threaten it’s position, the update is meant to make the iPhone more like a fully-fledged computer more than any phone to date.

Of course what everyone is really waiting for is the worst kept secret (by Apple mostly) – the Apple tablet computer. Most interest seems to be on what it’s going to be called – the iSlate, the iTablet, the iPad? We think it’s going to be like a big iPhone ….

Watch this space for what really happens….. the apple “Latest Creation” will be on 27th January and we’ll be reporting here to you…..

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Put Your Glasses On

Monday, January 11th, 2010
There’s one big thing making a buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and that’s 3D TV. Most of us have made the transition to digital TV and even to HDTV – and the market is worried about what they can sell us now. Well, they think it’s 3D. Most of the big players were showing 3D TVs at the show and are pegging their hopes for large sales and huge public take-up. Although this might sound like wishful thinking on their parts, 3D TV does have one big advantage, which is that consumers can really see the difference. It was tricky for the maufacturers to persude us about High Definition as sometimes it was hard to see the difference – but with 3D there’s none of that – it’s instantly amazing.
The plans at the moment are for most film releases to be made available in 3D and so you’d view these on the TV’s via traditional and blu-ray DVDs. But there are talks for broadcast TV to be in 3D (The Discovery Chanel are believed to be preparing for this) and things will get really interesting then.
Of course the big problem that we can see is that you still need to were those silly glasses – although they are looking seriously cooler now than the old fashioned paper numbers with sweet wrapper lenses.
Watch this space. In 3D!
Check out the show at:
http://www.cesweb.org/
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There’s one big thing making a buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and that’s 3D TV. Most of us have made the transition to digital TV and even to HDTV – and the market is worried about what they can sell us now. Well, they think it’s 3D. Most of the big players were showing 3D TVs at the show and are pegging their hopes for large sales and huge public take-up. Although this might sound like wishful thinking on their parts, 3D TV does have one big advantage, which is that consumers can really see the difference. It was tricky for the maufacturers to persude us about High Definition as sometimes it was hard to see the difference – but with 3D there’s none of that – it’s instantly amazing.

The plans at the moment are for most film releases to be made available in 3D and so you’d view these on the TV’s via traditional and blu-ray DVDs. But there are talks for broadcast TV to be in 3D (The Discovery Chanel are believed to be preparing for this) and things will get really interesting then.

Of course the big problem that we can see is that you still need to were those silly glasses – although they are looking seriously cooler now than the old fashioned paper numbers with sweet wrapper lenses.

Watch this space. In 3D!

Check out the show at:

http://www.cesweb.org/

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Resolutions

Monday, January 4th, 2010
Happy new Year to everyone from Viziononline. The New Year is a great time to make new plans, possibly to move – well to day sees the opening of the world’s tallest building – how about a penthouse in  Burj Dubai?
The building is almost twice the height of the Empire State building and rises an impressive 800m tall which means it can be seen almost 95km away! It’s an architectural and engineering masterpiece. It’s location means that it need to be resistant to geological faults and incredible winds – during it’s construction it’s been hit by lightning twice and also has to suffer an earthquake which it’s stood up to with ease.
In terms of cost – well the figures are staggering – the whole project cost a cool $1.5bn and what’s more impressive in these financial times is the the developer has actually made a profit!
Find out more and see some stunning photos at:
http://www.burjdubai.com

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Happy new Year to everyone from Viziononline. The New Year is a great time to make new plans, possibly to move – well to day sees the opening of the world’s tallest building – how about a penthouse in  Burj Dubai?

The building is almost twice the height of the Empire State building and rises an impressive 800m tall which means it can be seen almost 95km away! It’s an architectural and engineering masterpiece. It’s location means that it need to be resistant to geological faults and incredible winds – during it’s construction it’s been hit by lightning twice and also has to suffer an earthquake which it’s stood up to with ease.

In terms of cost – well the figures are staggering – the whole project cost a cool $1.5bn and what’s more impressive in these financial times is the the developer has actually made a profit!

Find out more and see some stunning photos at:

www.burjdubai.com

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