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It’s time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47” plasma ones, but…you know what we mean. The future of media is the Internet, and television is no exception. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote, you could be browsing through the free online TV providers on your computer – hell, if you like, you can watch them all at once (in really tiny windows). It’s time to reach out and see how much free online TV we can find.

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Vixy allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology (outline in Japanese). It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.

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According to Viacom, Youtube has infringed copyright laws by displaying 160,000 unauthorized clips of Viacom’s programming which has been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

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That may be a reality soon as YouTube Vice-President Kevin Donahue leaked out on YouTube’s plans of doing a traditional TV show based on YouTube content, or possibly starting a new cable channel at the the Consumer Electronic Show held at Las Vegas recently.

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But even if YouTube doesn't start producing a TV show, other companies are busy launching products that will allow consumers to watch YouTube clips on the big screen. Netgear just announced its Digital Entertainer HD, a WiFi-enabled set-top box for streaming media from the PC to the television.

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This 3MB piece of program is a no brainer to use, just download it, install , just paste the URL of the YouTube webpage you want to rip into YouRipper and the video, in Flash Movie flv format is downloaded onto your PC.

The only one downside as far as i’m concerned is that it only works for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP..bummer

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YouTube will continue to work on it’s brand and will retain all 67 employees, including co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.It’s a good thing that YouTube will continue with it’s brand, God forbid we hear names such as Gtube or Googtube thrown in the air!.

According to Google’s Press Release:

“The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google. “Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users, content owners and advertisers.”

With this purchase Google has catapuled itself to the top of the online video revolution,not to mention this has been Google’s most expensive purchase by far in it’s 8 year history.

Rumors are that Yahoo Inc will be pressured to make a similar move and may well end up purchasing Facebook.com for over a Billion dollars, although persuading the owner to sell is another matter all together.

“Yahoo really needs to step up and do something,” said Roger Aguinaldo, an investment banker who also publishes a dealmaking newsletter called the M&A Advisor. “They are becoming less relevant and looking less innovative with each passing day.”

Selling to Mountain View-based Google will give YouTube more technological muscle and advertising know-how, as well as generate a staggering windfall for a 67-employee company that was running on credit card debt just 20 months ago.

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The big G is reportedly making a move to acquire YouTube for around $1.6 billion in cash and stock, according to published reports.

This may become one of the best purchase ever done by Google although it already has it’s own video sharing service.YouTube is huge and almost everyone and their dog has at least one time viewed a video uploaded at the site and if Google does go ahead and splash the cash on YouTube it would propel them right at the top of the video content mountain as YouTube has an estimated 30 million registered users as compared to Google (9.3 million) and Yahoo (5.3 million).

YouTube’s rise to fame has been phenomenal having made it’s way to the masses via a garage by former employees of eBay Inc.’s PayPal electronic-payment unit in Febuary 2005 to a now 25 employee company.

The other good thing that would come out of this deal is the ‘copyright’ issue that has plaqued YouTube when users upload copyrighted materials on the site, although YouTube has been proactive and has removed any copyrighted material once a complaint has been made.Google however will have more leverage when they approach the likes of Universal Music, NBC, CBS etc.

But Google also could present a solution, Bernoff said, noting that the software innovator could develop automated systems to block attempts to post copyright materials. He also said Google’s size and clout gives the company much more leverage than YouTube to negotiate deals with copyright holders.

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Mark Zuckerberg of course is the owner of the popular social network site – Facebook.In January this year Facebook received an offer of $750 million from Viacom but they duly rejected the offer and instead asked for a ernomous $2 billion which Viacom rebuffed.

To woo Mr. Zuckerberg, Yahoo has offered about $900 million for Facebook and says it will keep the company somewhat independent, with Mr. Zuckerberg in charge. This has been its model with other acquisitions like Flickr, a photo-sharing site, and Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking service that lets members share lists of their favorite Web sites.

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In the meantime, YouTube has announced to potential buyers that it will not sell for less than $1.5 billion….

Are you a serial video uploader?..do you upload your homemade videos on such site as YouTube,Google Video or MetaCafe?

Wait..hold on, the next time you upload your video,you might just be able to profit from it,yes the time has come,you can now make $$ with or without any filming skills.

Crazy you say? maybe,but that’s what is happening right now at eefoof.

Kinda wierd name for a video upload site ya?

All the same they are offering you a share of revenue,so if your video hits it big time than you might just have a wonderful Christmas this year

check out eefoof for more details.

I was a little shock to know that one of my favourite players,Torsten Frings (Germany) has been banned from this game for appearantly “punching” an Argentinian player.

I managed to find the video evidence and after watching it..they call that ‘punch’?!!

hahaa…come to your own conclusions :

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Check out the video as the octopus blends in with the enviroment it’s in,totally cool!

“Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” are just some of the programs that are making it’s way to YouTube -legally,thanks to an agreement between NBC and YouTube.

NBC in the past had been pissed off by YouTube who they claimed infringed copyright by allowing users to upload skits from “Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” among others,reaching a boiling point when when a video of a Saturday Night Live skit, called “Lazy Sunday” showed up on the site.

The spoof, featuring SNL regulars Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rapping about eating cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia, was viewed millions of times. Nonetheless, NBC asserted its copyright and asked YouTube to take it down.

YouTube meanwhile has no plans to follow the Napster route by infringing copyrights,instead
it’s co-owner Chad Hurley says it’s developing tools and putting process in place to control what’s going on in the site.

And with leading ad agency – Leo Burnett hailing YouTube as the advertising medium of the future,you can bet more will follow NBC’s route.

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It appears that the RIAA is quite pissed about the the recent trend of user using copyrighted music in their videos as background music,something similar to those seen at Gidol.

Some YouTube users have reportedly received cease and desist letters from the RIAA, demanding that the posted video be taken down. YouTube, however, is confident in its copyright policy because it warns people about violation, and pulls material upon request of the copyright holder.

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No..no…this blog is NOT turning into an entertainment blog, but i thought it would be cool for to post this video of the ever beautiful Nicole Kidman.

This advert is a little old (2004) and was done by Baz Luhrmann who also directed Moulin Rouge in which Nicole Kidman was the co-star.The advert caused a stunning £18 million and Kidman’s fees alone was £2 million!.

About the Advert:

As one of the world’s most celebrated actresses, Kidman, plays the role of the “most famous woman in the world”. Young and charming Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro plays a struggling writer who falls in love with Kidman.

The story is set in a mythical metropolis where a mysterious and beautiful woman runs out of her limousine and into the traffic of the imaginary Times Square. She escapes the paparazzi and the screaming fans, and plunges into the heart of neon and noise.

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You can read the Official release notes by Yahoo HERE

Unlike YouTube.com, Yahoo Video’s only limit is file size, and that limit is 100MB.

There are no time, bandwidth or total storage limitations. Videos can be set to public or private, and viewers can search and sort videos by popularity, category (pre-defined by Yahoo) or tags (user created). Like YouTube, videos can be rated by viewers, commented on, embedded into other websites, etc.

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Videos of up to 5 minutes can be uploaded to the service, and they are then converted to the Flash 8 format (same as YouTube). Like YouTube, videos are rated, commented and shareable. Also, any video may be embedded into another website via a code snippet. The only significant difference between AOL Uncut and YouTube is that YouTube supports tagging, whereas UnCut doesn’t.

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It’s as simple as it can be, there’s just a few things you need to do.

First, download the .flv player for free (Freeware) HERE

Next, go to KeepVid.com and enter the URL
of the video you love ever so dearly…

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Once you’ve entered the URL, press Download, and a download link will appear.

Right Click on that download link and choose Save Link As & a folder of you choice, and remember to Rename the video to whatever you wish, but with a .flv in the end.

Normally the file name would be “get video”, so changed that to (example:) myvideo.flv

Adding the .flv is the most important step,otherwise it’s quite useless to download the video.

That’s all there is to it,enjoy your youtube videos!

MTV2 will provide the site with clips from two series and DVD releases coming this month.

Clips would be added from two shows, “The Andy Milonakis Show” and “Wonder Showzen.”

One of the intresting things to note is that Youtube currently serves more than 3 million videos, adding 8,000 video uploads and transferring 16 terabytes !!of data daily.

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