Video fans could upload a wide range of high resolution and high quality video file formats such as WMV, AVI, MOV and MPG to YouTube. However, YouTube would resize these high resolution video files to 320 x 240 pixels, encode them to Flash 7 at a data rate of approximately 250kbps and compress the audio to mp3 (22.050KHz monophonic). Thus, users would sometimes find the video quality in YouTube quite poor and unsatisfying. Due to the improved internet connection speed in many countries, YouTube has started to change its strategy by providing better quality and higher resolution videos to users.

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The biggest American reality show on TV has finally joined the iTunes platform. Fox Broadcasting, Fox Interactive Media and FremantleMedia signed an exclusive deal with Apple to bring American Idol audio and video performances to iTunes as single song-sized snippets available the day after they premiere on air.

Audio performances of the top 24 contenders run 99¢ per song, and videos of the top 12 finalists performances will be priced $1.99/each from March 11.

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The U.S. podcasting audience reached 18.5 million in 2007, according to eMarketer and was projected to top 65 million by 2012 with 25 million listeners downloading one or more podcasts a week.

Ad spending on podcasts in the U.S. is also expected to creep up, from $165 million in 2007 to $435 million in 2012.

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Videora Converter is one of the best free video converter available in the market from the creators of Videora, a personal video downloading program, which is not free unfortunately. Videora Converter converts and turns regular PC video files such as those in .avi extension encoded by DivX or XviD codec format, .mpeg video, .flv Flash, x264 format, .vob files, downloaded YouTube video clips, movies and DVD’s to proper video format for playback on popular favorite portable devices such as MPEG-4 and H.264 used by 5G iPod, iPhone, TiVo, Apple TV and Xbox 360.

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There are tens, if not hundreds of video media formats existed nowadays. To make matter worse, each and every portable playback devices or players from different manufacturers support different unique media formats and codecs. Even on Windows computer, sometimes codec installation is required to view the video content. Thus, converting video downloaded or recorded to another encoding format is getting more common daily task for those video enthusiasts who download video clips, movies, trailers and etc from Internet and wish to view them on the move.

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Winamp supporters can now download Winamp 5.52 which has just been released. Winamp is a proprietary media player which brings you to an exciting multimedia world. The latest released Winamp 5.52 is a comprehensive audio player which is able to handle audio CDs, MP3 audio files and streaming audio broadcasts. The state-of-the-art Winamp 5.52 features a sensitive interface and multiple functions.

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When watching web pages with embedded Flash video or animation such as movie or video clip on YouTube and MySpace using Mac OS X, users may hear no sound. The no sound audio output problem happens despite video playback is fine, and the issue can happen on any web browser, i.e. Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Strange thing is that, when using other applications such as RealPlayer, QuickTime Player and VLC Player, the sound is played properly. And no audio output issue does not affect embedded QuickTime including HD contents on the web.

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Steve Jobs announced an update to the Apple TV at Macworld San Francisco this week as well as iTunes Movie Rentals, which were already rumored to be part of his Macworld keynote speech.

Jobs admitted that Apple’s online video plan had been a disappointment and that users didn’t take to watching online video the way Apple had expected. When Jobs first announced the Apple TV last January, Apple’s initial video plan was too complicated for many people. Getting a movie or TV show onto your Apple TV required customers to buy the video from the iTunes Store, download it to their computer, then sync/stream the file using an Apple TV.

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