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Magnify has just released their new Multi-View Player (MVP) that will allow Web publishers to blend their own in-house video content with video content from external sources in one seamless video player. This dual purpose player will be a welcome tool for all members of the Magnify video search and aggregation service.

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The MVP player brings sites a complete video solution and embeddable player that will allow you to grow a robust video community on your site.

There’s no more need to maintain separate players for the original video content you created as well as for all of the video content that you’ve accumulated from other sites. The MVP will be able to handle both forms of video content.

The MVP player comes in a variety of colors and sizes with the Magnify free account. The Professional and Enterprise accounts offer more features such as customizable logo and skinable player with different themes.

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Magnify shares ad impressions on a 50/50 basis with members no matter which plan they choose. The MVP player could very well lead to greater success for everyone involved, including site visitors.

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The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is, hands down, one of the most useful sites on the Internet. Think of any movie - ANY movie - and it has all the information about it you’ll ever need. There’s a pro version of the site that offers even more info, but the regular IMDB is so good that most users won’t ever need to go pro.

With a site like that comes a certain curse: you can’t really improve on it. It’s near perfect, and now that Amazon (owner of IMDB) added support for videos, my initial response was: meh. It’s a welcome addition to the site, but since the 6,000 movies and TV shows that are offered from Hulu, CBS, and Sony mostly aren’t available where I live (or pretty much anywhere outside of the US, for that matter), excuse me for not being too thrilled. I’d rather be able to watch little embedded trailers for all movies, thank you very much. IMDB claims that, ultimately, they want to offer every TV show and movie for free; the idea is nice, but they have a long road ahead before they get there.

Luckily, support for videos hasn’t really changed the way IMDB looks, except for a little box on the left; this is not a case of IMDB wanting to be the new YouTube, and the videos are just another addition to the already exhaustive movie database. This is not a bad choice; I never planned to actually watch the movies or shows on IMDB, I just want it to give me the info I need. Luckily, it still does.

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