UK filmmaker scores top prize from Rode
Rode’s “My Rode Reel” contest has been running for three years now and attracts more interest each time. The company’s just announced the winners of the 2016 prize packages which pulled…
iPhone film festival extends deadline
The self-proclaimed “Original iPhone Film Festival” has extended its deadline for entries from 1st November to 31st December, 2015. The celebration of all things “i”-movie related had its first outing…
Canon hits mega milestone
How many cameras labelled with the “EOS” moniker do you think Canon has produced? One million? Five million? Wrong; the company’s just announced what it describes as “a new camera-manufacturing milestone”…
Free microphones up for grabs
Yes, really. Well, sort of. Sennheiser is offering 150 of its D1 wireless mics out to interested parties such as bands who are willing to review the mic for four weeks…
Facebook puts the boot into “freebooters”
It’s been a long time coming but Facebook has started making moves towards a video copyright infringement system along the lines of YouTube’s ContentID. In a blog post, the company…
Game On! (says YouTube)
A while after it was teased, YouTube’s dedicated gaming channel has gone live. It’s a mix of videos and live streams which YouTube says “brings you closer to the games, gamers,…
Sayonara, Google Plus!
Everyone hated it (didn’t they?) and at last YouTube has seen sense and announced that it’s working on unbundling YouTube channels from the deeply unpopular Google Plus. At the moment if…
Vimeo logs into Chromecast
You know how annoying it is to watch online video on a teensy little mobile phone screen? You know how Google’s Chromecast makes it possible to stream some videos directly…