Andy Plesser

Big trial gets underway on Friday (4.24) in San Francisco about the DVD-ripping program from RealNetworks called RealDVD.  Hollywood is not too pleased with the $30 program which allows you to rip and save unlimited number of DVD's to a PC.

LAS VEGAS — The integration of video production elements is becoming more important as publishers seek to increase productivity and save cost. 

LAS VEGAS  — Live television delivery to mobile devices is a big focus of working groups and exhibitors here at the annual NAB convention, according to Chris Brown, the NAB executive in charge of the show.

It's great to see that Zadi Diaz, co-creator of Epic Fu, has landed a sponsorship deal with Puma.

Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, the standard for connecting computers in a network, says that the promise of video is to limit the need of physical meeting which means less travel and greater energy conservation.

Visitors to video sites now exceeds users of Web-based e-mail, according to a report released today by The Nielsen Company.  The study reports on monthly unique visits to various Web sites and online applications.

LAS VEGAS — In an effort to deliver the same experience for HD online video streams for consumers with different bandwidth connections, the industry is embracing a technology called "adaptive streaming."  

LAS VEGAS — We read the coverage about Adobe's Flash coming to television sets, which is an important development.  But this Flash content will only play on new television sets with new chips.  It will take quite some time. 

While an entire industry has been created to measure the impact of conventional advertising on brand perception and purchasing, there is very little methodology around the impact of online video advertising.

Out  in Mountain View today, RJ Pittman and his crew unveiled the latest developments in image search. Michael Arrington has been live blogging about it.

thePlatform, the white label video services company owned by Comcast, has announced it is has new customer in 4Kids.TV.

Stay tuned to Beet.TV over the course of the week as we will be doing a number of interviews from the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center at the annual NAB convention.

Great to see the success and recognition for CHOW, the San Francisco-based foodie site created on a shoestring  by Jane Goldman as a print publication back in 1997 then sold to CNET in 2006 when it launched online.

Conde Nast, which had organized most of its content on big, themed portals, has created new Web sites for most of its individual titles.  This is part of the transition from CondeNet to the new entity Conde Nast Digital, which was announced in January.

Congratulations to Andrew Baron and the team at Rocketboom for the new technology series created sponsored and developed in cooperation with Intel.  Andrew blogged about it today.

In what could be an important development for producers of premium content, YouTube is planning ways to charge for some videos, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments during this afternoon's earnings call.

We read Caroline McCarthy's report on CNET News.com that Ning has reached 1 million networks. 

Banner ads on YouTube for the SarahPAC, the political action committee formed to advance the 2012 presidential candidacy of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin, are getting some unexpected exposure on YouTube. 

I caught up last month in San Francisco with Tim Napoleon, Akamai's chief digital strategist who spoke about the importance of creating industry standards around the many video players in the market.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vivian Schiller, former head of the NYTimes.com and now President and CEO of National Pubic Radio, told me in this interview that she is "bearish" on the opportunity for non-television media companies to undertake original news video production.