Revision3, the online video company headed by Digg’s Kevin Rose has reportedly inked a series of new deals which will see its original series being distributed in a number of new places.

The company is best known for Diggnation, a series all about Digg, and the stories which make it on the social bookmarking site, hosted by Rose himself.

The show has always been available on Revision3’s own site, as well as YouTube and iTunes, but will now also be available on Hulu, Joost, TiVo, Revver and Break.com as well.

Sony has already used the trojan horse that is the Playstation 3 to win the high definition DVD format war, with Blu-ray killing off HD DVD at the beginning of the year. Now it looks like the company has a new target – Online video distribution.

The PS3 is currently battling with the Xbox 360 for second place in this generation of games consoles behind the now BBC iPlayer equipped Nintendo Wii. Both consoles have their advantages over the other, but the Xbox wins when it comes to online services.

Microsoft realised very quickly that the online sector for video was going to grow over the next few years, so built Xbox Live to future proof itself, and the console.

Xbox Live Success

The service currently boasts 10 million subscribers, and plays host to 4,800 hours of video, a quarter of them in high definition. The content is a combination of movies, currently numbering 350 and over 5,000 episodes of shows such as Desperate Housewives and Lost.

Sony has so far been left behind, though it’s been promising some kind of online video offering for a couple of years, with the Playstation Portable well overdue the service.

It may now finally be about to deliver on its promises though, with the LA Times reporting that the PS3 is indeed about to get its own video distribution service, and what’s more, it’ll be built on open standards.

Strutta takes the old concept of bragging rights and ombines it with online video to create a fun social media website which could keep you entertained for hours.

If you constantly brag that you are the best at handstands in three counties, Strutta gives you a place to prove it. 

If you have an obnoxious friend or co-worker who won’t shut up about how great they are at, well, anything – put it on video and use Strutta to prove them wrong (or right).

Entertainment For Hours

Strutta is a fun website with little purpose beyond having bragging rights to any task you can dream up and put on video, or proving obnoxious people wrong. 

Even so, I managed to waste an hour on the site watching various people make complete idiots of themselves at various tasks, and voting for or against them as they came up against similar videos. 

YouTube has gone beyond everybody’s expectations, and become by far the largest online video resource in the world, and one of the most visited sites on the Internet bar none.

So with this in mind, you would think that all is rosy with the world, and the company is in a very enviable position. It is, of course, but this lofty position also comes with its fair share of problems.

10 Hours Of Content A Minute

For starters, there are the sheer logistics involved when dealing with over 10 hours of content being uploaded to the site every minute. And with that comes the responsibility to filter content, both for unsavoury videos such as porn or violence, and copyrighted clips.

The battle between old TV and new TV continues to be fought, with the protagonists actually the same companies fighting themselves.

The problem obviously exists because when it come to money, the Web just doesn’t pay for itself, and until that changes, we’ll get ludicrous cases such as what is happening to Gossip Girl.

It’s hard to imagine an example that sums up the conflicting ambitions and tensions within the TV business better than the latest announcement about Gossip Girl.

Cw Network

The show currently appears on the CW network (co-owned by CBS and Warner Brothers).

The news from the network is that fans will no longer be able to watch episodes online, as they have been since it started airing last fall.

Instead, CW would like viewers of the show — which is all about a girl and her blog, and was effectively created in part to piggyback on the online habits of its target audience — to watch it only on television.

At the moment, it seems there’s a high level of confusion about how Web TV can be made to be profitable while still offering a fair deal to viewers keen to lap up the new Internet based experiences.

It seems NBC Universal think it may have found a way, but it means we’ll have to put up with a heavy amount of product placement in future output made for the Web.

CNet is reporting that due to a deal between the television company and the Omnicom Group, programming will now be designed solely to highlight a sponsor’s products.

Anyone who regularly watches video on the Web, and if you’re reading WebTVWire, it’s a safe assumption that includes you, would have heard of Lonelygirl15.

It was a fictional video journal which took YouTube, and the wider world by storm when it launched in June 2006, and fooled many people in to believing it was a real girl documenting her life online.

It was however, a cleverly constructed show made exclusively for the Web, and was the brainchild of Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, along with filmmaker Ramesh Flinders.

The nature of the show eventually became known, but a year later, the pair created KateModern, a similar show for the social networking site Bebo.