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Youtube’s Ploy To Steal Your TV

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Youtube is working hard to invade your living room and become your TV. Quality video content is the next big thing with Youtube, which has recently launched a new product called Youtube Leanback. Leanback is essentially a made-for-TV version of YouTube. More recently, the company mentioned that they will be trying to sponsor higher quality video (television-ish) content.

As part of this shift in strategy, the company has launched a campaign dubbed YouTube Partner Grants, which represents an investment of five million dollars to find YouTube partners from small production companies and studios that need the money to build Youtube’s upcoming product offering.

Youtube will also be supporting a new high-end digital video format called 4K, which has a horizontal resolution of about 4000 pixels. For example, some of the best video cameras available, like the RED One system, shoot in 4K. The funding that Youtube will provide these smaller video agencies will help them purchase better equipment and hire new team members to produce the content for this new video platform.

Many Still Unprepared For Switch To Digital TV

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

The government has been trying to prepare the nation for a complete switch to digital TV, and despite their efforts over three million homes are still unprepared for the switch over. Next week, over 1000 broadcasters will change their signal to digital and permanently turn off their analog programming. The government has spent over two billion dollars to help citizens with the transition.