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At the genesis of consumer movie making, Kodak released the "Cine Kodak" Camera and the "Kodascope Projector" in 1923. The $335 cost was similar to a camcorder today; however, in that same year, you could buy a new Ford automobile for $550.

The projector was challenging to operate and required a darkened room, so home movies were usually shared in the movie creator's living room. The advent of the camcorder changed all of that. By the mid 1990s, most people in developed nations had a VCR, and sharing videos was as simple as copying a video tape and delivering it to the viewer's living room. In recent years, this has become even easier with DVDs, which are smaller, lighter and less costly to mail.

2006 will likely go down in history as the year that video sharing over the Internet became a phenomenon. While the technology has been around a while, there were just a few companies providing services in this area. As of late 2006, over a dozen companies offer this service. Certainly YouTube sparked great interest in this concept, but now Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and MySpace are all in the g…

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Matthew York | January 2007

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