Post: YouTube: Where Home Video Goes to Thrive
YouTube: Where Home Video Goes to Thrive
Cheap(er) camcorders and digital cameras with video capabilities have made it easier and easier for people to play filmmaker these days. But where do all those cutesy home videos and amateur skits wind up? Increasingly, they're landing on the Internet...and with a substantial following.
An article from today's San Jose Mercury News examines the rise of YouTube, the popular video sharing-site:
"YouTube and other video-sharing Web sites signal a shift in the way entertainment will be made and consumed in the future. They're creating a new form of television that's at once personal, grass-roots and unfettered.
With the emergence of technology for easily sharing video over the Internet, viewers are gaining the autonomy to choose what, when and where they watch — be it on an iPod, laptop or desktop computer. And the masses are getting an opportunity to create and experiment with video while bypassing the central filter of a TV network."
Check out the full story here.
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Date: June 8, 2006
but where does home video go to die? AFV?