Joost may be the biggest and best known service for providing video on demand, but the amount of challengers to its top dog crown is seemingly growing weekly. The latest contender is BBTV, a new service from Blinkx due to launch in the autumn.

BBTV, short for Broadband TV, will be a downloadable P2P client which enables it’s users to search for TV shows and movies. The idea and software will be nothing without content and so distribution deals are currently being worked out.

Take a look at the screenshot above of what I just found on the AOL Video Portal.

That’s right! That is a YouTube search results page, as it would appear on YouTube.com, but presented on video.aol.com underneath AOL’s own video search box.

Peekvid got shut down. Was the MPAA involved…?

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Peekvid is a website that indexes pirate TV content that appear on video portals like YouTube, Daily Motion and other similar video sharing sites. Peekvid is the most successful site of its kind with its popularity being fueled by the hundreds of free TV shows it provides access too.

The Movie Pictures Association of America (MPAA) has had enough and flied a lawsuit against PeekVid and another similar site called YouTVPC on June 27th 2007. Peekvid doesn’t appear to care in the slightest and has continued to expand the site.

What has Peekvid Done Wrong?

PeekVid does not host the content, it simply links to it. Many would say this is not illegal by blindly stating “Google links to illegal content all the time” and “What about YouTube, they are the ones hosting the videos”.

John Malcolm, Executive Vice President and Director of Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations for the MPAA, said that:

“The sole purpose of these sites is to disseminate content that has been illegally reproduced and distributed. They are a one-stop shop for copyright infringement. These lawsuits should serve as a warning to other aspiring movie theft ‘entrepreneurs’ that they are not above the law and will face serious consequences for their activities. Profiting from the theft of other people’s creative works is illegal and must be stopped”.

In the past year a number of online video editing websites have popped up promising to offer a quick, fun and easy way to edit your video online. Today I’ll ask the question whether Online Video Editing is any good of whether you should stick to desktop based editing.

For the more technically inclined, online video editing seems at first like a bad idea. Editing video is one of the most processor intensive applications you can do on a computer, and trying to replicate that experience through a web browser seems like it would be an exercise in futility.

Nonetheless, several online video editor websites already exist, with recent additions coming from the latest video sharing site MySpaceTV, and the video sharing giant YouTube with the YouTube remixer.

This article takes a closer look at what’s out there in this space, and whether you should give these online video editor sites a closer look.

First however some cold hard facts about video editing in general…

Do you want to stream media to your cell but don’t have a Windows-enabled model? Are you looking to watch online video content on your mobile device but don’t have the dough for an iPhone? Well, in the past my response to that would have been “Tough luck, pal.”

Now, however, the service offered by Movy.TV allows phone, PDA and Blackberry users to access multimedia previously unavailable to them.

The basic idea is simple: Install the media client on your device, upload your content to the website, then stream it (or any of the video or audio made available by other users) to your handset as and when desired. You can also access the media from your home computer or laptop as you would a standard video-sharing site.

NewsCorp owned MySpace yesterday announced the launch of MySpaceTV, a new dedicated MySpace branded competitor to YouTube. The new MySpace video sharing site will work independantly to the regular MySpace social networking site.

According to the NYTimes, MySpaceTV will also have a strong focus for professionally produced content from the likes of NBC Universal and Fox (also owned by News Corp), in addition to the regular user generated content.

Coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics will now be available on TV, online and on handheld portable devices. NBC plans to make 1,000 hours of the 24 different sports available for live streaming online.

According to Bob Wright, the executive officer for GE, this makes the 2008 Summer Olympics the “first ever broadband coverage” for NBC.