New Florence. New Renaissance.

3ality Digital

"By this time next year theaters will be cluttered with 3D flicks. Movie houses are hustling to install new digital projectors so they can boost revenue by charging the higher ticket prices that 3D features command. Film studios, which get about half of what theaters collect from showing their productions, see larger dollar signs, too, from 3D. Among the coming attractions: DreamWorks Animation's  Monsters vs. Aliens and Avatar, a sci-fi flick from Titanic director James Cameron. Meantime, Walt Disney and DreamWorks have committed to making all their animated flicks in 3D, while Steven Spielberg and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson are collaborating on a 3D Tintin."

BusinessWeek

Poster of one of 3ality's productions

Your next PC: A television

NY Times interview with Reed Hastings of Netflix

“within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions…”

“PCs have “a lot of memory and a powerful chip. The TV doesn’t have that much memory and not that powerful a general chip… That’s what’s holding it back.”

“We don’t think of it in title count… we think about it in terms of volume and having an even better experience that we have now.”

also MIT Technology Review reports about moves towards 3-D TV

Photo Credit of 1960 TV ad - tvhistory.tv

Super-Resolution Algorithms

"Varah also argues that having to meet the CIA's requirements set a higher standard for MotionDSP's algorithms. The algorithms leverage a handful of patents from researchers at the University of Santa Cruz, explains Nikola Bozinovic, the company's CTO.

The algorithms track motion through several frames of video to determine which characteristics of the motion appear to be due to a jerky camcorder. This motion is then subtracted from the scene when the video is rendered."

MIT Technology Review

Digital Signage

"Now that the price for plasma and LCD monitors is falling, are you one of the many hotel or restaurant operators who are shopping around for a digital signage solution? Be it content, advertising solutions, or digital signage platforms and displays, last week's very first Digital Signage Expo/East, held in Philadelphia, PA showcased the industry's top suppliers and products.."

Hospitality Technology

The camera never blinks

and nowadays it is everywhere.

Dennis Howlett on his 6 ways of creating video.

With the coming explosion of citizen journalism, Comcast's limit of 250 gb a month will soon start to look mean.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II

A new benchmark in DSLRs.

 21.1 megapixel. HD Video capture at full 1080 at 30fps. And lots more.

See this video at Pocket-Lint

3M's Pocket Projector

"In a dark room, it could project a big enough image to be the ultimate cheap-o home theater. The projector will sell for a mere $359. It doesn’t have a speaker, so you’ll have to get that separately. But really, how good could a microscopic speaker jammed into this thing sound, anyway?

The MPro110 is pretty basic looking on the outside—just a grey box. But it gets the job down. A VGA input lets you plug in a laptop; and the composite video jack will take output from a digital camera, PSP, iPod, iPhone, or most any handheld device (though video-out is still pretty rare on cellphones)"

Popular Science

How would you like a 700 inch HD TV?

That's what the 30'x50' screen at the Republican Convention translates to. The podium in contrast is only 4' high - the lowest ever for a Republican convention so people in front do not need a rubber neck. (Photo credits FoxNews and Yahoo News)

Of course, it pales compared to the 70'x160' screen planned at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium.

Netflix Streaming Video

"First, Netflix destroyed weekend trips to Blockbuster with their ubiquitous red envelopes and now they promise to destroy the postal service by totally cutting out the middle man.The Netflix Player by Roku is the first in what portends to be a long line of devices designed to download and stream movies from Netflix. While in its current incarnation the device is fairly limited, I can firmly recommend it with the expectation that the movie selection will improve."

CrunchGear

Fastcompany.TV

Robert Scoble, a pioneer in blogging, is joining a "new, interactive, online video community called FastCompany.TV"

With traditional networks and now "open source" videos via YouTube, do we need yet another broadcast channel? 

With Robert, you know every new mobile gadget and web widget will get exposure so for consumer tech innovation watchers that is great. Besides, he intends to use newer video and broadcast technologies   " like Qik, Kyte, Seesmic, Mogulus, DotSub". So, yes, expect him to pioneer new trends in broadcast and content