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The Internet has made the world an increasingly transparent place. A lesson electronics maker Belkin should have known before paying off reviewers on popular sites like Amazon.

While there have always been hacks and apps to download YouTube videos, now it’s just a click away.

Just in time for Barack Obama’s inauguration, Ustream.tv released an app for watching streaming video on the iPhone.

Katya Soldak and Mitchell Gilbert gets up close and personal with the wreckage that is Flight 1549 and comes back with photos and footage.

There’s no doubt that HD is appealing. Pick up any production magazine and people are talking about the future of HD and beyond. Remember, though, you should focus on what you need to do the job today and tomorrow. HD adds cost and complexity, and if you’re not going to take advantage of the benefits today, why incur the cost today?

Twitter gets the news before the MSM.

The Scribe team went to the Healthcare Facilities Summit to film conference sessions and produce a promotional video for next year. The summit focused on one of my favorite topics – sustainability and reducing energy consumption within buildings and facilities.

The beginnings of a web series.
Two years ago this spring a group of friends and I dusted off a few ratty pieces of thirty-year-old moth-eaten shirts and bell-bottom pants, grabbed some platform shoes, aviator sunglasses, low-rent wigs, a couple guitars and a video camera and set off into the woods. With few resources but not [...]

Screenwriter John August writes that federal authorities should limit Comcast’s ability to provide DVR services based at Comcast’s facilities because that will effectively remove the desire for repeats and the residuals that come with them, as well as DVDs and the like. After all, if a consumer can get any TV show or movie they [...]

On first impression, the Anton/Bauer ElipZ light system feels super light and little flimsy. It’s made of black and blue plastic, although that plastic is durable lightweight high temperature polycarbonate. I can’t really test how durable is durable, as they’d like it back in the same condition they sent it. It reminded me of a Transformer I had as a kid, especially when it can fold down into a very compact form that keeps it protected in stowage (a very nice design touch).