The people over at Youtube announced this weekend during the VidCon that their players will support the 4k resolution videos, which is (yes) four times larger than 1080p (and twice as much as IMAX). The ideal screen to watch a 4k video must have 25 feet (that’s alright, I’ll just turn my bedroom wall into [...more]
YouTube has introduced a novel way to find and watch music videos. Dubbed YouTube Discovery (Disco for short) is a pretty snazzy way to whip up a playlist of music videos.
Throw the resulting playlist on a projector, and you’ve instantly got a night of aural and ocular stimulation.
Once the playlist [...more]
More and more evidence is rolling out to prove that the internet is the greatest time-waster mankind has ever created. In the month of December 2009, 178 million internet users in the US watched 33 billion online videos. Of those 33 billion videos, 40% or 13 billion were on YouTube, making it by far the [...more]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled a new product yesterday at CES 2010 and it’s… a tablet PC? Hey, isn’t Apple supposed to be making one of those? Perhaps in an attempt to beat Apple to the multi-touch punch, Ballmer demonstrated HP’s new slate PC, capable of running Windows 7. They posted a teaser [...more]
California’s federal trial on the constitutionality of Prop 8, a publicly voted state act that banned same-sex marriage, will be broadcast on YouTube.
Chief U.S. District Judge Vaugn Walker introduced the idea several months ago, stating, “I always thought that if people could see how the judiciary really works, they would take a somewhat different view [...more]