YouTube video game unveiled

A Spanish team has released the first 3.0 video game for YouTube, which takes advantage of various interactive possibilities, says Eurasia Review.

The game uses a form of narrative immersion that allows the user to decide the course of the story and integrate it into real life, through the use of alternative online platforms, such as Facebook or e-mail, which enrich the story.

The work, baptised Cigamenic, is the fruit of the final degree project of two young UC3M graduates in journalism and audio-visual communication, Pablo Arana and Daniel Bern'aez, under the tutelage of Professor Javier L'opez Izquierdo, assistant dean of audio-visual communication.

Netherlands audio-visual services company DutchView has purchased Snell's Alchemist Ph.C-HD motion-compensated standards converter, reports 4rfv.

This is part of a significant upgrade to the company's conversion capabilities. The Alchemist Ph.C-HD anchors the copy centre within the company's post-production arm, DutchView PostProduction BV.

DutchView also purchased the Alchemist Ph.C-HD's FilmTools option for handling frame-based content as well as the integrated Dolby E audio handling, which will broaden the company's ability to serve its film-based clients and those with advanced audio requirements.

A new scheme which will enable members of local libraries to access the music collections of some of the country's largest libraries and archives was introduced in Dublin by novelist and broadcaster Deirdre Purcell, as part of Library Ireland Week, writes Irish Times.

Music PAL is a new cross-border initiative by the Committee on Library Co-operation in Ireland. Under the scheme, library users will be able to apply for a Music PAL access card at their local library, which will then allow them to visit and make use of facilities at other libraries around the country.

Some 27 institutions are partaking in the scheme, including Trinity College Dublin, the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin, the Cork School of Music, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the RT'E Sound Library and Archive.