MotionDSP claims to have developed a real-world version of the image enhancement technology featured in the movie Blade Runner.

In fact, the company wants you to send them crappy cell phone videos so that they can prove their point.

MotionDSP’s technology takes low resolution video, extracts information from each frame, and re-constructs a higher resolution video, enabling faces to be recognized and license plates to be read.

Here’s an example of MotionDSP’s technology in action:

Crappy Low Res Video

Crappy Low-Res Video Enhanced with MotionDSP’s Blade Runner Technology

The examples are interesting, and the company’s timing is good.

If they really want to push the Blade Runner angle, though, they should consider putting some skin jobs in the sample videos, and maybe adding a little futuristic synth music courtesy of Vangelis.
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Proof that there’s room for everybody in the world of vlogging and video podcasting: Daily Dancer, a regular video podcast of geektactular dance moves.

The Daily Dancer is a software developer who loves to dance. He takes requests, and even “guest dancers.”

Here’s a typical episode:

For the noobs, Daily Dancer has an index of his funkiest dance videos.

To subscribe to his video podcast, add this URL to your podcast software:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailyDancer/

Director Jonas Mekas, who has been described as “one of the key figures in New York’s alternative film culture,” has announced plans to release 365 short films formatted for the iPod.

“I am making 365 iPod films, 2 minutes to like 5, 6 minutes long. Short. They will be released one for every day of the calendar. So there will be one iPod released every day beginning with January 1st, or maybe somewhere in November,” explains the Lithuanian-born director.

“I have been working now for about three months and I finished about 60, 65 of them, and I will continue for quite some time. Though I’m involving other people, like Scorsese, Jarmusch, John Waters, and Virginie Marchand is doing 10 iPods in India, in Bollywood.”

Mekas has posted a introductory video that explains his plans at his site, jonmekas.com.

A new television network, Lime, that focuses on the virtues of green living, is looking to the Internet to be a primary push for recognition.

Lime’s brand can be found on at least five different media platforms: a traditional, linear cable television network; cable system-delivered video on demand; broadband Internet content; satellite radio and Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes portable media site.

The company is hoping to squeeze significant revenue out of all these platforms, by selling everything from 30-second spots on TV and radio to podcast sponsorships.

“Frankly, none of us had any interest in being the last of the linear digital channels,” said Lime CEO CJ Kettler. “Our goal was to launch a multiplatform business and to build a brand on all platforms. Our view is that our content should be on any and all platforms.”

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comScore Media Metrix says that online video has officially gone mainstream, as YouTube has broken into comScore’s Top 50 listing of sites.

We’re not sure why comScore thinks it gets to decide when this is official, but at least their numbers are interesting.

comScore has released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties and categories for July. Most noteworthy was the popularity of online video, which continued to gain steam in July, as Youtube.com broke into the comScore Media Metrix Top 50 for the first time, debuting at number 40 with 16 million visitors, a 20-percent increase versus June.

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