On Thursday I said that Media Extender’s will have a short life span and here is the reason. Not so far in the future, maybe within 3-5 years we will have one enabling device that will do absolutely everything. No longer will we have several black boxes of circuit boards all connected together by a mish mash of cables, we’ll have one device: The Ultimate DVR.

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Just in case you didn’t notice I posted a selection of internet TV series and video blogs by internet entrepreneurs on out sister site, WebTVhub.

I’m pretty sure a good number of people who read WebTVWire.com are themselves entrepreneurs and will be hungry for this sort of entrepreneur TV.

Check out the list of Entrepreneur videos and episodes here.

On Tuesday I talked about the Xbox 360 and Apple TV, two very hot topics of conversation when it comes to spreading video and music onto your TV screen.

In fact media extenders are a hot topic in general. This year’s consumer electronics show in January was packed with new innovative products designed to meld your home network into one, making all the media in your house accessible on every PC and TV. Well at least that’s the idea.

The winner of the $50,000 Network2 video contest which I posted about the other week was announced last week (yeah I know its a bit late but I’ve been busy).

Entries had to make a post about how to watch internet TV, and since Network2 were running the competition they liked a mention too.

The winner is: (an advert for Network2)

If you haven’t noticed you can have active links in the descriptions of videos that you upload and store on YouTube. If you run a website you can therefore make use of this to send visitors to your site. For example, if you have a site on Harley Davidson’s you could make a video tutorial video on how to replace the exhaust, post it on YouTube and include a link back to your site.

But where there are visitors there is money, where there is money there is spam, and where there is spam there are dodgy Search engine marketing companies.

The Apple TV was finally released last week and as I expected the reviews of the device are not that flattering. I’ve said already that the Apple TV was over-hyped and I’ve noted a number of alternatives to the Apple TV (now there are even more).

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I do a fair bit of web design from time to time and I’m often buying stock photographs and images to make the websites look more aesthetic and professional. But for some reason it never really occurred to me that there would also be a libraries of stock videos available to purchase for commercial or private use.

Well obviously such stock video sites would exist but it just never entered my head until I stumbled across ITN source.

ITN Source

ITN Source contains a library of stock videos from a number of popular TV channels.

“As well as ITN’s own news material, (including ITV News, Channel 4 News) we provide exclusive rights to the Reuters global television archive, the FOX News and FOX Movietone archives and the historically remarkable British Pathe news archive.  We represent the complete Channel 4 catalogue, which includes the E4, More4 and Film4 archives, (Jamie’s School Dinners, Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights, Trainspotting) and the entire Granada catalogue (Prime Suspect, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Survival) which accounts for much of UK broadcaster ITV’s output.”

The layout of the site really impressed me with its flash interface which showed moving videos thumbnails when browsing for clips.

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