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Iron's Maiden's newest release "The Final Frontier" hits the streets August 17th. According to an interview with Dave Murray from Billboard.com, "We breezed through the album, really. We actually finished it in six weeks. We were getting down a track a day — all playing together as a band, Bruce (Dickenson) singing, all in the same room, so there's a very live-in-the-studio feel to it. Once we finished a track we'd jump straight into doing some extra guitar bits. It was very quick for us."

Below is the track listing

01. Satellite 15....The Final Frontier (8:40)
02. El Dorado (6:49)
03. Mother Of Mercy (5:20)
04. Coming Home (5:52)
05. The Alchemist (4:29)
06. Isle Of Avalon (9:06)
07. Starblind (7:48)
08. The Talisman (9:03)
09. The Man Who Would Be King (8:28)
10. When The Wild Wind Blows (10:59)

Also released was a video for the title track on the Band's website. You can watch it here.


The Final Frontier - Director's Cut

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Category videos tools

All of us have hard drives and tapes full of them. Blurry, shakey, pilelated videos we've shot on video cameras, digital cameras and cell phones. Well, MotionDSP has released a product calledvReveal that will help you turn those bad clips into great ones.

The patented technology is clever. In a second of video, there are 60 snapshots, or frames, that form the individual slices of the video. The software analyzes a scene by looking at all of the previous frames that have played and the frames that are about to play. It then finds the sharpest features of each frame and uses those in the enhanced video. The result of this “multi-frame analysis” is improved resolution for the whole video.

The software is currently selling for $49.99 and can be purchased from their website

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Category videos distribution

At the South By Southwest Music Festival held in Austin, Texas last March, IMDb founder Col Needham  made it clear thatIMDb wants to bring streaming services to its 57 million unique visitors it sees each month.

Col started out talking about the history of IMdb - from its pre web days, to turning into a dot com to being bought by Amazon. And what he says makes sense - you have this many people visiting your site every month looking for movie and film info. Why not give them the ability ot stream it from the site with the click of a button from the page they are already on.

Needham admitted to the difficulty in pulling this off. Not only do a lot of these films and shows not exist anymore, but the ones that do may not be in a streaming format. And then there's the licensing. IMDb doesn't deal with just one or two studios - its goal is to index EVERY movie or tv show ever made. Some of those places aren't even aorund to approve the content being streamed even if it were available.

But its clear that they are already moving forward on this goal. They started putting up content in September. Most of the content comes from Hulu and other providers. They have a few thousand full length films, over 12,000 TV episodes and lots of other clips ralted to the movies like trailers, news and other interesting tidbits.

1.3 Million titles is a long way from a few thousand. But if there were ever a site that it makes sense to connect two similiar content providers together, its IMDb and the tv/movie industry

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Category videos Gerd Leonhard the future
This is a video from the Plugg 2009 Conference, held in Brussles. It's of Gerd Leonhard talking about the future of music and media. Gerd is a "futurist" so he gets paid to study markets and trends and tell comapnies where he thinks things will be in the near future. He brings up some interesting points here

The Future Of Music And Media from Plugg Conference on Vimeo.

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