The American Movie Classics website now has a section called "BMC: B-Movie Classics." Here, you can watch several complete classic B-movies, including Invasion of the Neptune Men, Planet on the Prowl, Teenage Caveman, and The Crawling Eye. Those interested in B-movies may be familiar with some of these titles already; several of them were used in episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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AMC Features BMC: B-Movie Classics
How many times has this happened to you: You come home, and all you are able to find on TV is quality programs? You are disappointed because want you really wanted to watch is a B-movie from the 1950s. Have no fear: AMC has come to your rescue!
Streaming Video Grows; YouTube Reports 6.3 Billion Videos Viewed
Two stories about the rise of streaming video on the Internet.
In the first, John Biggs writing for ChrunchGear, discusses the shift from optical video to streaming video in just the past few years, resulting in complete dominance of the latter. The Internet is full of streaming video. It is everywhere, on every page. Interesting.
To back that up, comScore’s online video numbers for the United States in January are out, and YouTube reported 100.9 million visitors, who viewed 6.3 billion videos, surpassing the 100 million viewers milestone in the United States for the first time. [via mashable]
In the first, John Biggs writing for ChrunchGear, discusses the shift from optical video to streaming video in just the past few years, resulting in complete dominance of the latter. The Internet is full of streaming video. It is everywhere, on every page. Interesting.
To back that up, comScore’s online video numbers for the United States in January are out, and YouTube reported 100.9 million visitors, who viewed 6.3 billion videos, surpassing the 100 million viewers milestone in the United States for the first time. [via mashable]
Video Lectures from Top Universities Online at Academic Earth
Interested in learning from some of the world’s top scholars? Academic Earth has hundreds of video lectures from professors at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
You can subscribe to courses through RSS or add the podcasts to your iTunes library. Users are able to grade both the lectures and the courses, viewable by other users.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education, by using technology in innovative ways to increase the ease of learning. AE hopes to “bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use.”
[via metafilter.com]
You can subscribe to courses through RSS or add the podcasts to your iTunes library. Users are able to grade both the lectures and the courses, viewable by other users.
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education, by using technology in innovative ways to increase the ease of learning. AE hopes to “bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use.”
[via metafilter.com]
Rejoice, Music Video Lovers
Once upon a time, MTV was a place where at almost anytime of the day, you could be entertained by music videos. Sadly, with the rise of cheap reality programming, those days are gone.
However, with MTV launching www.mtvmusic.com this week, the station is investing in music videos again, only this time on the Internet. This site features not only music videos, but also MTV concert footage, performances from MTV Unplugged, and clips from various MTV and VH1 music shows.
To take a look, go here to see the first video broadcast on MTV on August 1, 1981.
However, with MTV launching www.mtvmusic.com this week, the station is investing in music videos again, only this time on the Internet. This site features not only music videos, but also MTV concert footage, performances from MTV Unplugged, and clips from various MTV and VH1 music shows.
To take a look, go here to see the first video broadcast on MTV on August 1, 1981.
Opera Lovers: Metropolitan Opera Now Streaming Audio and Video
Rabu, 15 Oktober 2008
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Audiobooks,
Metropolitan Opera,
New York City,
Opera,
Streaming Media,
Videos
According the the New York Times:
"In the Metropolitan Opera’s relentless quest to exploit all media, the company next Wednesday will start making many video and audio broadcasts available for Internet streaming on demand.
Met Player, as the service is called, will be available through the Met’s Web site, metopera.org.... [U]sers will be able to choose from 13 high-definition video performances, 37 standard video recordings and 120 audio broadcasts dating to 1937. The company said it planned to add performances regularly, drawing on its vast historical archives and its continuing high-definition broadcasts....
For $3.99 or $4.99 per streamed opera, users will have a six-hour window in which to listen to or watch a production, once it has started. A monthly subscription for $14.99 brings unlimited streaming, while a yearly subscription costs $149.99."
