Has it ever happened to you that you wanted to watch some video and ultimately find that the videos are only available scattered on different video hosting sites like Youtube, Metacafe and Veoh etc. Embedr helps you the effort to roam from one video site to other.’

Embedr helps you create playlists of your desired videos sourcing them from different websites and give you an embed code in the end so that you can display the playlist on your blog or website. Let me just post what Embedr says about itself

# You’ve found 3 different live performances of Michael McDonald’s Ya Mo B There, each one better than the previous. Obviously, you need this on your blog, and stat. If you embed each video separately, you’ll have Ya Mo stacked on top Ya Mo stacked on top Ya Mo, and then you’ll be left with one crappy looking page, and no one will want to B there. Old McDonald had an Embedr playlist, E-I-E-I-Awesome.

Embedr seems like a perfect solution to a problem encountered by some people. Embedr is currently available for videos hosted on YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and Blip.Tv etc. and we can expect the support to brought to other similar sites in time to come.

Most Popular movie rental estore Netflix has introduced a feature that allows customers to immediately stream and watch movies and television programmes on their PCs.

People will have the option of instantly watching about 1,000 movies and TV series, and the new feature will be included in subscribers’ monthly membership plans at no additional cost.

Netflix expects to make the service available to all subscribers by the end of June.

The hours available for instant watching will vary based on subscribers’ monthly plans. Subscribers on the entry-level $5.99 plan will have six hours of online movie watching per month.

Subscribers on Netflix’s most popular plan, $17.99 for unlimited DVD rental and three discs out at a time, will have 18 hours of online movie watching per month.

Following a one-off installation of a simple browser applet, most subscribers’ movie selections will begin playing in their web browser in as little as 10 to 15 seconds, the company claimed.

Reed Hastings, chief executive at Netflix, said: “While mainstream consumer adoption of online movie watching will take a number of years due to content and technology hurdles, the time is right for Netflix to take the first step.

“Over the coming years we will expand our selection of films, and work to get to every internet-connected screen, from cell phones to PCs to plasma screens. The PC screen is the best internet-connected screen today, so we are starting there.”

TVknob.com is another youtube.com like website which is now concentrating on taking web broadcasting to the next level. They have plans to start TV broadcast service with interactive web portal communities and original programming.

TVKnob’s Video and Audio Player is developed by Doug Watkins, these players will allow users to access music and videos by independent broadcasters, and choose from an cluster of online television and radio stations with multiple channels.

Doug Watkins is believed to have said that “YouTube just woke the public up to the possibilities. Our concept offers broadcast technology solutions to reach vast new markets of broadcasting, pod-casting and personal entertainment. There are serious issues facing the future of independent arts and the way it all works. This technology puts in motion a television and radio station network that anyone with the talent and the equipment can take an idea and then turn it into a personalized yet global TV or Radio Channel. It puts the power where it should be — in the hands of the broadcaster rather than the distributor. We would like to see it become the catalyst that bridges the Internet to the TV in the home.”

Web users are required to register themselves for this free service and ofcourse the broadcasters will need to subscribe starting from $99 per month, for a channel of their own. Users will also be able to upload their short films for the TVKnob film festival etc.

To me I think its a good effort, this is taking social networking to a next Level of Object sharing, TVknob is one such innovative move.

Verizon Wireless announced a distribution deal with YouTube and also with another popular video sharing website Revver to stream limited content over its V Cast service. What makes this deal particularly interesting is the fact that through Revver’s signature revenue sharing system, content creators have the opportunity to make money from having their videos available on V Cast.

At the end of user uploaded videos, Revver inserts a short advertisement, with Revver splitting any profit made from the ad 50/50 with the video’s creator. This system will extend to videos viewed from a mobile handset over the Verizon Wireless V Cast service, though instead of adding an advertisement, Revver will split the fee Verizon pays for the video with the creator.

Similar to Verizon’s YouTube deal, video content will be included with the user’s usual V Cast subscription, with no additional purchase necessary. Starting early December, Revver will make some of the most popular content across its Editor’s Picks, Viral Video Classics, Extreme Sports, Laughs, Animation, and Cute Overdose categories available on V Cast. Unlike the YouTube deal, Verizon Wireless will have a period of exclusivity as the US mobile distribution partner for Revver.

Verizon Wireless and YouTube have today announced a deal where Verizon will offer select videos from YouTube to customers over its V CAST service.

While financial specifics of the deal have not been disclosed, customers will be able to access the videos starting in December this year.

The deal is likely Verizon’s way of bringing advanced mobile services like video to the masses, as such services have so far only received a lukewarm reception in the US.

In addition to viewing YouTube content, users will be able to more easily post video from their handset to YouTube by using a five-digit short-code. Previously, users had to send content to a personalized email address provided by YouTube. YouTube viewing will be included in Verizon’s V CAST subscription, no additional fees will be applied.

Google Inc.’s online video service has been sued for copyright infringement, providing a possible preview of the legal trouble that may plague the Internet search leader after it takes over YouTube Inc. and its library of pirated clips, the company said Wednesday.

Without providing detail, Google disclosed the video copyright lawsuit in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A Google spokesman didn’t have any further information about the suit late Wednesday afternoon.

After Google launched its online video service in January, the Mountain View-based company quickly found itself trying to catch up with YouTube — an austere startup that emerged as a pop culture sensation a little more than a year after its February 2005 inception in a Silicon Valley garage.

Abandoning its attempts to eclipse YouTube, Google last month negotiated a $1.65 billion deal to buy the 67-employee company.

Much of YouTube’s success has been driven by easy access to copyrighted video clips posted on the site by the Web site’s millions of users. YouTube removes videos when copyright owners complain, but pirated clips continue to crop up.

The recurring problem has raised fears that some copyright owners are delaying legal claims against YouTube until Google completes the acquisition some time during the few weeks. While San Bruno-based YouTube has been subsisting on $11.5 million in venture capital, Google has accumulated $10.4 billion in cash.

In Wednesday’s filing, Google acknowledged it could face more copyright suits once the YouTube deal closes.

Google didn’t quantify its possible legal liability but outsiders have been taking a stab at it.

A widely circulated theory posted on the Internet speculated that Google had set aside $500 million of the YouTube purchase price to pay copyright settlements.

Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt dismissed that theory as untrue in a Tuesday appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He then reiterated Google’s commitment to address the concerns of copyright holders.

“YouTube had been on this path and together we will get there more quickly,” Schmidt said.

Just before the Google sale was announced, YouTube negotiated licensing agreements with three of the world’s largest record companies — Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group Corp.

Because it indexes so much material owned by others, Google has become accustomed to fielding complaints about copyright infringement. Some of the disputes have triggered lawsuits for everything from Google’s efforts to make digital copies of library books to its search engine’s ability to display snippets of news stories and photos appearing on other Web sites.

Those suits haven’t become a big financial drain on Google yet, and investors so far appear confident the company’s lawyers will minimize the damage from any claims brought on by the YouTube purchase. Google shares gained $2.43 Wednesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market to close at $475 — about 15 percent above the price before word of the YouTube deal first leaked out.

Source: AP

Sharp’s MP-E300, has 1GB of memory, and the MP-E200, has only 512MB. Both players are available in 3 different colors: silver, black and gold.

They have a miniSD port, measure 87.6×49x7.9mm (yes, you read correctly, 7.9mm) and weight 62g. Sharp gave the player plenty of features, with a FM tuner and FM transmitter, support for MP3, WMA, WM DRM10 and AAC, and compatibility with Napster.

You can also record the radio directly into the player’s memory. This DAP is surprisingly good looking and a luxury to carry around.

Check out the New Toshiba DVD players. The interesting “black” player is the SD-P50DT. It measures 138×31x153mm and weights 650g. It supports DivX and MP3, has a 1Seg TV tuner, and a 5” display (480×234).

SD-P50DT has a cool design that downright appeals, the SD-P90DT is not behind. It has the same features as the P50DT, with an additional support for WMA. It has a 9″ display (800×480), measures 261×179x37mm and weights 1.3kg.

Talks are ongoing about a possible deal, that will bring YouTube content to Verizon’s V Cast 3G video service through Verizon Wireless, Verizon Communications’ joint venture mobile operator with Vodafone. Under the terms of the agreement, Verizon could also offer YouTube content on demand through the company’s FiOS TV service.

YouTube, which was just acquired by Google for US$1.65 billion, this has been revealed in a report by the Wall Street Journal that Verizon Communications is in ‘advanced talks’ to bring its online content to other mediums, such as mobile handsets and cable TV.

The new Linux-based home multimedia distribution system generated the loudest buzz at this year’s CEDIA (custom electronic design and installation association) trade show, according to Computer Reseller News, which has published a feature article previewing Monster’s ultra-high-end “Einstein” system, expected to ship by March next year.

According to CRN, Einstein product manager Chris Greene credits Linux with enabling Monster to behave “more like a consumer electronics legacy device, eliminating the boot process that delays start-up and shut-down.”

Einstein appears to comprise six separate devices, all or most of which appear to be based on Linux. Together, the systems enable users to distribute media such as DVDs, broadcast and recorded video, satellite radio, and recorded music to multiple output devices within the home. Monster’s ultra-high-end Einstein components include:

 

 

• Nucleus, a $4,000 controller that handles media distribution, and provides a control interface for home lighting, security, and VoIP systems
• Electron, a $2,500 media adapter/client.
• Photon, a $2,400, 200-disk DVD disc changer capable of playing two DVDs at once.
• Neutron, a $5,000 RAID-5 storage array with a capacity from 960GB to 7.2TB.
• Astro, a $1,500, three-zone Sirius satellite radio tuner.
• Tron, a $1,300 seven-inch LCD touchpanel.