Some high-end Philips TV sets have a cool feature, Ambilight. Basically, it is LED lighting that changes its color dynamically, depending on the television picture's color. It is such a pleasure to watch movies on an Ambilight-enabled TV!

There are some implementations of such lighting in Adobe Flash. Why can't we, web masters, do the same thing using scripts? It was another opportunity for me to check out what state-of-the-art web browsers can do, so I've made the following thing:

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Here is a must-see collection of three interesting video presentations about HTML 5 by Google. If you are a web developer you can’t miss them!

Introduction to HTML 5

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Hi everybody! In this article, I'll tell you about one HTML5 video player. Probably you know that state-of-the-art web browsers already support HTML 5, which lets you embed video into a web document in such a way that a web browser doesn't need any plugins to play it.

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I've read quite a few articles on HTML 5, Theora, and video tags, but most of them discussed theoretical rather than practical issues. On my site MJV-ART.ORG, I recently added an anime section, JV-Video, which is a small video hosting (similar to YouTube) based on HTML5/Theora. In this article, I'm going to tell you about the real problems that I encountered.

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