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• Prime to digitise media archives

  Television and radio broadcaster Prime Media has embarked on a digitisation project for its content over the next seven years.

• Director shoots movie with iPhone

  Amateur filmmakers have no excuses now--film director Park Chan-Wook has just finished shooting a major motion picture with an iPhone.

• Aiptek i2 shoots 3D video on a budget

  Aiptek has introduced the i2, a pocket-sized twin lens camcorder that can record 3D video, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.

• Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D HD camcorder

  Panasonic used the broiling, hectic setting of the U.S. Open tennis tourney in New York Wednesday to showcase the capabilities of its first handheld consumer-grade 3D camcorder. On a day so hot and humid that one athlete, Victoria Azarenka, collapsed and had to withdraw from competition, Panasonic showed how the US$1,400 Panasonic HDC-SDT750 handheld unit could record clear 3D video without the large and heavy hardware usually connected with 3D videography.

• Roxio Creator 2011 adds 3D

  Forget about Avatar in 3D -- thanks to software maker Roxio, now your home movies can feature grandma, the kids, and all your friends in eye-popping 3D. Roxio announced Tuesday the latest versions of its all-in-one media software suite, Creator 2011 and Creator Pro 2011.

• Panasonic debuts first consumer 3D camcorders

  Panasonic unveiled its first two consumer camcorders capable of recording video in 3D on Wednesday.

• Panasonic to unveil consumer 3D camcorder next week

  Panasonic will next week unveil a camcorder for consumers that is capable of recording images in 3D.

• Toshiba to ship 128GB memory chip for mobile devices

  Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. today announced plans to ship a 128GB embedded NAND flash memory module, the highest capacity available for smart phones, tablet PCs and digital video cameras.

• YouTube videos to become high art at the Guggenheim

  Are your YouTube videos so good they deserve to be in a museum? Thanks to a partnership between Google and the Guggenheim Museum in New York your you stand, at least, a remote chance.

• OmniVision introduces world's smallest 1080p HD camera

  OmniVision Technologies has introduced its OV2720, which it claims is the world's smallest high-definition (HD) CMOS image sensor. It's intended for notebooks, netbooks, and webcams. For the uninitiated, OmniVision develops camera technology for phones, laptops, webcams, and video cameras.

• Five years of YouTube: The ups, the downs

  YouTube turns five today, and with 2 billion daily users to celebrate the birthday, is safe to say the video site is having a good life. Still, the road to the big "zero five" -- that's a long time in Internet years -- wasn't without potholes. Here's a look back at the milestones and missteps of the Web's biggest video site:

• Sharp intros world's first 3D camera for mobile devices

  Sharp revealed its first 3D camera for mobile devices this Wednesday, detailing that they plan to start production of the module before the end of the year.

• Video search still a tough nut to crack

  While text-based search services such as Google's and Microsoft Bing now come pretty close to consistently serving up what users seek, video search services remain inexact at best, said video archiving experts who spoke on a panel at last week's WWW2010 conference.

• Flip Slide HD gets touchscreen, more storage

  Cisco finally announced the newest member of its Flip family, the Flip Slide HD. This newest Flip camcorder sports a three-inch resistive touchscreen for viewing your home flicks as well as 720p video, and 16GB of storage for recording up to four hours of video.

• Season finale of 'House' filmed with Canon DSLR

  Considering the TV series House centers around an unorthodox doctor, it isn't too surprising that the production crew took an unorthodox approach to filming the Season Six finale.