Broadcasters weigh opportunities and turn to mobile video as the digital TV transition wraps up.

NAB staff were all smiles Thursday as they wrapped up the NAB Show, with a robust 105,259 attendees during the most uncertain economic climate in years. The show brought a record number of international attendees, 200 new companies among the 1,650 exhibitors, and about 1,300 members of the media.

Its new GY-HD200UB ProHD camcorder offers full-frame 1280 x 720 progressive imaging and 720p recording, and it can output either 720p or 1080i HD signals through its firewire (IEEE 1394) connection that can be recorded on JVC’s ProHD DR-HD100 hard disk recorder.

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar hinted that the video site co-founded by NBC Universal and News Corp. could find its way to other platforms, saying that many of them, such as mobile phones, would be "ripe for the Hulu experience."

New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66% in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs.

Telecorps’ Wexler Video division thinks it has the answer to getting the most out of TV stations’ field reporters. Its new BackPack lets journalists shoot material and then use cellular technology and the Internet to send it directly back to the station without a live truck or a microwave truck, and without hitting a WiFi hot spot.

Higher costs and tighter budgets are causing some stations to send fewer reporters and crews to Beijing than to previous games.