Summary: We will soon be replacing our TVs more often than our PCs as the television advances towards becoming a simple and functional living room PC. The maker of this new hi-tech TV could be one of many companies, and it could certainly NOT be Microsoft.

And at the center of this transformation is the internet.

Mark Cuban recently said that we’ll soon be replacing our TV’s more often than we replace our PCs. I’d have to agree with Mark on this. The evolution of the living room is putting more pressure on the TV set to be able to do more.

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In case you blindly missed Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and also on Web TV Hub, you may not know that DivX is boasting the compatibility of its DivX videos in over 70 million consumer electronic devices.

Those 70 million devices span from the many partner companies that DivX has teamed up with over the past few years. Davis Freeberg decided to delve a little deeper into these partnerships to see who has come one board with DivX and who has been jumping ship.

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DailyComedy and Paltalk just teamed up together to raise the bar on internet TV by announcing a new interactive comedy show. We all know the big thing about web television is that it is so interactive, but we rarely see it used to its full potential.

The outcome of the partnership is a new comedy show called LateNet with Ray Ellin. The show will actually take the form of a live video chat where the audience, no matter where they are, can interact with the host and special guests through the PalTalk video chat room.

The press release is published below and you can read more about it over on Web TV Hub.

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It’s Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and Web TV Hub (23/04/07). Learn more…

Video sharing sites like YouTube, Daily Motion and Metacafe share one thing in common which has aided their success. They use a simple flash video player that is instantly accessible by almost all internet users without any effort.

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It’s Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and Web TV Hub (23/04/07). Learn more…

Keeping itself in line as a distribution platform for independent video producers, DivX is running a film festival for members of the Stage6 community. The festival is devoted to storytelling, creation and improving digital media.

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It’s Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and Web TV Hub (23/04/07). Learn more…

Ever wanted to have a YouTube video on your portable media player or burn a lengthy Google video to a DVD so you can watch it on your friend’s TV?

Well if you have then you will be pleased to know that the videos on Stage6 can be downloaded and viewed on a number of consumer electronic devices. Now that’s something YouTube can’t do.

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It’s Stage6 Day here on Web TV Wire and Web TV Hub (23/04/07). Learn more…

I was lucky enough to catch up with the insightful Darrius Thompson, the co-founder of DivX, to put him in the hot-seat for 15 questions on the beta launch of Stage6, the video platform and community from DivX.

5 Take home points from the interview:

• Stage6 is more about enabling independent content producers with a professional platform for distributing video online than sharing home video clips.
• Stage6 actually allows you to download content and play it on DivX-compatible consumer electronics.
• HD video is all the rage over at Stage6
• Innovative community features including “Karma” have been introduced in Stage6 beta.
• The DivX software has been downloaded over 200 million times from the Stage6 site.

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