Vividas is enabling full-screen online videos. The company sells software, but you can view a demo without downloading anything. Here’s a beautiful Ford ad that works very well in full screen. Click the link and you’ll need to authorize a pop-up. It took my Mac a minute for the video to cache but it was worth it. (Via Patrick). Here’s another site that never loaded for me, but may for you: FlashBeer.
Vividas makes software that publishers use to distribute the video, but viewers don’t need to do anything except authorize a pop-up. That’s probably the company’s biggest challenge. Initially that requirement would freak me out if I received a video from a non reliable source.
That said, the world of television and web are moving closer by the minute.
Did you ever play the game in college where you tried to imagine the perfect woman, and you’d combine parts from various people you knew? Kinda like building the Frankenstein of women? Jennifer’s nose, Cathy’s eyes, Christy’s… um… personality, etc.?
Sensational headline, and not yet true (that I’m aware). But it will be this summer. If you’re ripping off TV and uploading it, you can’t hide behind YouTube. Remember the Napster days when a few individuals got singled out and brought to court? We’ll soon see a few high-profile lawsuits against not YouTube but its uploaders. “YouTube Stirs Napster Memories in Digital Movie Era” is the title of 
