CDN firm BitGravity.com is testing a technology called Multiview that allows you to switch between multiple cameras without streaming delays.
BitGravity explains that Multiview delivers up to six different synchronized high definition video streams at once. The viewer sees the normal view and can click on any other view, putting himself in the producer’s chairs, and switching camera angles.
An obvious use is sporting events.
Analysts of Techcrunch.com consider that “this is a view into the future, where video breaks away from the bond of broadcast television. The Internet is interactive.”
See a Multiview test here. Also see this Diggnation episode.
Finally, Flash in the mobile phone
Check out this SkyFire.com new mobile web browser that has the ability to display the web in its fully desktop, including Flash 9, Quicktime and AJAX-heavy content.
To achieve this, web pages are processed are processed by the company’s own proxy servers before being served up on the phone.
We tried it on a Nokia e71, and it worked fine.
A bigger YouTube player
YouTube has officially switched to the 16 x 9 aspect ratio screen. In addition, YouTube is expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels.
People are not very happy with that decision, and they are asking YouTube to make the new player optional.
Radio companies suffer the crisis and the lack of ideas when seeking revenues
Radio’s revenue continues to fall (and that is the 18th consecutive month of declines), and companies are loaded with debt. CBS Radio, Citadel Broadcasting, CC Media Holdings/Clear Channel Communications, Cox Radio, Emmis Communication, Radio One… all of the are reporting revenue drops. In small markets stations are doing relatively well, with flat revenue.
Now, listeners are diverted by iPods and Internet and satellite radio. Advertisers are heading to television or the Web, and the ones that have continued to advertise on radio, like auto dealers and retailers, are being hit by the economic crisis.
The New York Times asks in a column if can radio save itself.
Problems in the radio industry have been piling up for years. Radio companies have been fighting for share and ad space, instead of being proactive and thinking of new ways to generate revenue.
The hope of radio executives is HD Radio, a technology that lets stations transmit on digital signals, allowing each FM station to broadcast on two to eight channels, theoretically making the medium competitive with satellite radio. Problem is that users have to buy a special radio to hear the digital stations, and only about 500,000 units were sold so far. About 1,900 stations now broadcast on a digital signal.
“Radio companies are taking other small steps into the future –several have created iPhone applications, for example, which are popular,” NYT writes.
