Tag: YouTube
"Cheap, tawdry and tacky" advert promotes European film making on YouTube
A sexy little trailer released by the European Commission has outraged the sort of people who like to get outraged about things, thanks to featuring short clips of raunchiness from European “art” movies.
Shiny video review: Olympus mju 770SW
I take a look at the indestructible compact camera from Olympus. Sadly, there is no actual destruction in this video, as I couldn't find any glaciers to drop it from….
BBC iPlayer: yet another "TV highlights over the Net" service launches – how about some nostalgia?
Andy Merrett writes…
The BBC has announced that an open beta trial of its iPlayer will launch next month. It joins Channel 4’s 4oD service — reportedly doing quite well — for those who want to sit at their PCs and watch highlights of the last week’s TV.
Stuart has already extolled the virtues of “Telly 2.0”. BT are heavily marketing their Vision service, and 4oD can be accessed via BT Vision and Virgin Media.
Are the BBC slow off the mark? When the beta launches next month, it’ll be for a select band of Windows XP users only, with other versions potentially rolling out over the following months. Having said that, Channel 4 still have licensing and technical issues with protecting their content – their excuse for not getting the service to work with Macs (or indeed, any other non-Windows system).
Top 10 YouTube videos showing the funny side of iPhone
iPhone iPhone iPhone. It's all Apple fans can talk about this week. And if you're not already camping outside an Apple Store, you're probably TOO LATE. But at least you can laugh about it.
At least, you can if you have a look at these ten videos, handpicked from YouTube for chucklesomeness, rather than serious in-depth analysis of its specs. Watch the first below, then head over the jump to see the rest.
This week's hottest iPhone stories: YouTube on iPhone, better battery life, Bluetooth headsets, Google applications, Opera Mini browser, iPhone cases
There’s now less than one week to go until the iPhone launches in the US, and there’s only so much hype that can be reported. Much of the news has been focused on the latest tidbits of information that Apple has chosen to reveal, or has been ‘leaked’ to the press.
The big news, features wise, is that YouTube will be on the iPhone, starting with 10,000 videos converted to the iPhone-friendly H.264 format, and with the entire catalogue converted by the autumn.
Apple has updated its battery life claims – now you’ll get up to 8 hours of talk time. Impressive, if true.
YouTube is the mystery extra iPhone application
So much for wishful thinking. After all the rumours that the mysterious ‘twelfth icon’ on iPhone’s homescreen was GPS, it turns out that it’s actually YouTube. Yes, Apple has announced that it’s designed a native iPhone application to stream YouTube videos to the handset via Wi-Fi or the mobile network.
We are the world's #1 YouTube desk potatoes
Like we needed telling.
Digital bean-counter ComScore has done “the math” and ranked the UK as the world’s biggest viewer of online video.
A staggering 80 percent of UK web users over the age of 15 watched streaming videos of some sort in the UK during April…
