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The New Media department of Great Lakes Media was honored to create a digital highlight reel for high school athlete, Lewis Smith. Lewis is the Nephew of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer extraordinaire, Chad Smith.
The digital highlight reel is a great way for high school athletes to capture the attention of college recruiters. The video is a simple 2-3 minute piece, highlighting the athlete’s abilities and stats. It can be uploaded to youtube, a website, or put to DVD.
The video can be seen here, and is part of our New Media March promotion. We are offering 20% off digital media services. We are now also offering new services, like the digital highlight reel, and encoding for portable media devices.
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September 18th, 2009
Vince
Just when you thought it was safe to buy a new HDTV: Sony and Panasonic have just announced plans to release three-dimensional TV sets in 2010. ESPN is testing 3-D production, promising to “have football players appear to jump out of the screen”. Of course, special glasses would be required when viewing.
The new 3-D sets won’t come cheap, and some critics argue that there is not enough bandwidth available to broadcast 3D programming. No surprise there, considering that there still isn’t enough bandwidth available to broadcast true 1080p HD content.
These new televisions would be able to play shows in 2-D or 3-D, and 3-D video games.
Blu-ray has also said to be working on a product that would play three-dimensional movies at home.
The Digital Entertainment Group has just issued a press release stating that Blu Ray sales are up 91 percent in the first half of 2009.
“Although consumer spending on sellthrough packaged media was down 13.5 percent in the first half of 2009,” the release says, “this was partially offset by the growth of Blu-ray (up 91 percent to $407 million) and digital distribution (up 21 percent to $968 million, which includes $196 million for electronic sellthough).” Additionally, rental spending was up 8.3 percent for the first half of 2009, “boosted by an increase in Blu-ray rental spending, which was up 62 percent.”
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Universal Serial Bus?
Yep. That is what USB stands for. USB sticks have quickly evolved into an effective way to distribute information and promote your products and services.
USB sticks have many names. Here are all of the names that I have found:
1. Thumb Drive
2. Jump Drive
3. Memory Stick
4. Jump Stick
5. Flash Stick
6. Memory Key
Please comment below with more names of sticks!
2012…. The End…
More and more reports are coming out that Blu-ray will exceed DVD in sales in 2012.
See engadged blog: http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/24/blu-ray-disc-sales-estimated-to-exceed-dvds-in-2012/
Was this a cheap ploy to draw conspiracy blog readers to the site? Yes, and it is shameless. I give full credit to our Lead New Media Specialist (DVD Authoring) Vince Clore for the ploy.
Microsoft’s gaming console
XBOX 360 has been purposefully rippling the rumor pond for the last two years about offering a Blu-ray drive. My question is why would it matter?
Of the many statements
Microsoft has made in the past, they believe that tangible media will be worthless to their business model in the next couple years. Among the bundled products it has tried pushing with XBOX 360 is this notion of seamlessly downloading software and high definition movies.
This “magic button loading” of content is not that easy. I own XBOX 360 and
PS3. I have the option of renting the old fashioned way or downloading. I have tried downloading and it was a yawning experience. HD movies take forever to download (hours), there are complicated internet connection settings to even get to the point of access, there is a fee more than actually renting the real deal, and the quality of the bit rate is super bad. For me, I rent blu-ray discs and DVDs from Blockbuster… Its easy enough… I get my family dinner and pick up a movie or two and pop it in. I’m not an old fashioned guy and I am in the “target demographic” for marketing this service and my opinion is there isn’t a whole lot of value in downloading movies to me. Its not easier, its not better, and its not very exciting.
I love all the overhyped publicity downloading gets. Maybe technical advancements in new audio/video technology is slowing so there is nothing more exciting. I have yet to hear of monetary success in the digital video streaming business model other than iTunes. Even iTunes, I’ve yet to hear of overwhelming profits as it relates to video products.
The point is XBOX 360 has banked on two bad horses for hi-def movie watching and it is doomed as a Hi-Def movie watching apparatus. These horses are HD-DVD and Streaming. It is still a great machine for games and that is how people will use it but I find it very hard to get excited about Microsoft offering an ugly Blu-ray dongle to their current gaming system. Yet every year this time people get all excited that they are going to announce such a contraption at CES. Maybe it is just blu-ray supporters waiting for verification that Microsoft is admitting to some sort of ultimate mistake by going with HD-DVD or Streaming for high definition movies. However, the misbets made by Microsoft in recent times as it relates to HD movies are too numerous to be of any interest to me.
Top Five Reasons To Buy a Blu-ray Player
Courtesy of GLMT, Inc.
5. Your DVDs are not HD. No matter what the label says. Sure upconverting DVD players make your DVDs look better but they are not HD. Don’t believe it. There is a BIG difference and if you don’t see it, your player is not hooked up properly.
4. Sound. If you have a surround sound system, chances are your system will benefit from the much higher data rates of the Blu-ray format out of the box. My surround system is 5 years old and it is shocking how much more dynamic the channel seperation was on blu-ray audio with old school audio codecs.
3. $140. Resist the temptation to replace that malfunctioning or lost ipod this Christmas and invest in something that you will actually use on a consistent basis. Blu-ray players are selling at a discount. $140? C’mon! Remember when you would drop $100 just for an HDMI cable.
2. Your TV Wants One. If you have an hdtv, it has been fed a diet of low bit rate cable or dish hd or low bit rate DVDs that claim they are upconverting to HD. Your TV wants a steak. Let it maximize its performance with HD.
1. Rediscover the Magic of Movie Making. When I bought my blu-ray player, I realized something. Movies are fun to watch again. Movies are brilliant. The immersive display of sound and color lend credence to the true masterpieces of American moviemaking. A blu-ray player will entertain you and your friends and family cheaply and brilliantly. Done deal.
