Question about Video skins that look like a TV

Hi Dan,

Many times what you are seeing is a background image placed in back of the video and aligned for fit.

If the image is sized such that the screen portion of the image matches the video size it will appear that the video is being played from inside the image.

If you are familiar with HTML code, the following example may help. This code is for a table that would hold the image and the video. The RED text is the background image callout, and the BLUE is the video code.
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<table style="width: 723px; height: 520px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" background="flatscreentv.jpg" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; height: 318px;">
<div id="media">
<object id="csSWF" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-bc6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="400" height="318" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,115,0">
<param name="src" value="yourvideo_controller.swf"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#1a1a1a"/>
<param name="quality" value="best"/>
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/>
<param name="scale" value="showall"/>
<param name="flashVars" value="autostart=false"/>
<embed name="csSWF" src="yourvideo_controller.swf" width="400" height="318" bgcolor="#1a1a1a" quality="best" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" scale="showall" flashVars="autostart=false&thumb=FirstFrame.png&th umbscale=45&color=0x1A1A1A,0x1A1A1A" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>
</object>
</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

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I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish this, as this is sort of old school, but it works for HTML pages. (The pixel sizes will be determined by your image and video size. This is just off a page on one of my websites.)

~Bill