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While there is consumer interest in high-end 3-D TV's, the costs for the TV's,  3-D Blu-ray players and glasses is slowing adoption, says Ross Rubin lead technology analyst at the NPD Group.

With President Obama signature this afternoon, online video content creators will be among those required to provide closed captioning, as part of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessiblity Act.

Consumers are increasingly searching for brands and businesses using their mobile phones. Google has said about 20 percent of searches on Google.com are now related to location and about one-third of all Google searches via the mobile platform are related to the searcher’s local environment.

5MIN, the fast growing syndicator of online video, mostly lifestyle and "how to" clips, has been sold to AOL, according to a report by Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, MediaMemo.

Conviva has raise a series C $15 million venture round, the company announced today.    

The Financial Times has been investing heavily in producing online video programming and has made a "major investment" in building a television news studio in its London headquarters, paidContent reports.

Justin.tv, the big San Francisco-based live Web video site continues to grow with an average of 32 hours of live video streamed and ingested into the system every minute to viewed instantly and for later viewing on demand, says Evan Solomon, head of marketing said in this interview.

ScanScout, the big New York-based video ad network, is getting favorable results for its advertisers, says Jason Krebs, Executive Vice President. We sat down with Jason recently for this update. Andy Plesser.

Here is our chat with Raj Amin, CEO of HeathiNation, the producer and distributor of consumer health videos.  He talks about syndication strategies for his company and opportunities for other publishers. Andy Plesser  

Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based online video platform is expanding into Australia and hiring senior executives in the region, the company announced earlier this week.

Justin.tv, the big consumer site for live streaming, has just launched an Android app for creating live streaming.  According to Evan Solomon,  VP of marketing, it is superior to current offerings from competitors Qik and Ustream.

As publishers consider creating mobile video Apps vs maximizing their mobile Web for video, Apps provide a valuable, persistent connection with the most loyal and valued fans.

As publishers continue to wrap their arms around digital books and as high-profile authors like Seth Godin announce their departure from traditional publishing, the book business is quickly experimenting with new media platforms.

Earlier this year at the Streaming Media East Conference, I was interviewed by videoblogger/online video evangelist Larry Kless.

While much of buzz about video streaming has been about Netflix, Amazon has around four times as many videos available — and provides TV shows the next day and movies the day a DVD is shipped.

Brigthcove, the big online video platform company, announced that its customer base has doubled this year, is expanding rapidly and hiring key executives.

EPIX, the premium cable and online video distribution company, has inked a deal with Netflix to bring feature films to the Web far sooner, as soon as three months from theatrical release.  

LOS ANGELES — Is brand integration the wrong approach to Web video advertising? It may very well be, said Chris Williams, the general manager for Disney-owned digital studio Take180. 

LOS ANGELES — Michael Eisner's web video studio Vuguru is readying the launch of two new series, "The Booth" and "Pretty Tough" in Canada and Europe, says Larry Tanz, president of the studio in this video interview.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com It’s the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, a high-level exploration of online video and the strategies around monetizing, syndication and emerging technologies.  This program was taped on Tuesday, June 22 at 30 Rock.