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Video everywhere at DEMOFall 2007

The DEMOFall 2007 conference had several interesting streaming video offerings and we’ve clipped some of the highlights from NetWorkWorld’s excellent review below. Also see the demo.com video archives Here.

MotionDSP’s FixMyMovie.com
Very cool technology that replicates the stuff you see on CSI – crime investigators taking a piece of grainy video and being able to clarify it enough to make out the license plate of the perp’s car. These guys take video shot on a cellphone and clean it up – fixing color, removing blockiness and other artifacts. Right now, it’s free to consumers to use at FixMyMovie.com. It accepts most major video formats with a cap at 20MB file size and 352×288 resolution.

DF Splash from Digital Fountain
Digital Fountain’s technology breaks up a file into various bits and somehow is able to reassemble them on the receiving end in way that helps eliminate latency issues. The company is putting the technology to use in its new DF Splash content delivery network, slated to launch in January 2008.

Search with ClipBlast
A new video search engine that’s been busy crawling the Web for video content for the past three years and is now being unleashed to the public. ClipBlast offers two means of search: Through a web site or through a desktop widget that can display video directly in the app or redirect viewers back to the content owner’s site.

iTVCon – Internet Video Conference & Expo 2008

As the convergence of the four screens continues ­- PC, TV, mobile phone, and Personal Mobile Platform – Internet video has shifted programming into the hands of Web users instead of television viewers, blurring the division between a Website and a TV channel as broadband connections enable viewers to surf the Internet to find whatever programs they want.

iTVCon looks in detail at how, with all the data and entertainment being pumped down the same pipe or transmitted over the same wireless networks, the worlds of TV and the Internet are colliding and old-fashioned broadcasters need to discover new revenue channels fast.

Now that broadband is available to more than 100 million households worldwide, every corporate Website – not to mention every media company – must now provide video content on the Internet to remain competitive, as well as live and interactive video Webinars and on-demand Webcasts.