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BBC iPlayer Relaunch | Out Of Beta On Christmas Day – Now With Mac & Linux Support

It looks as though the BBC has listened to the criticisms levelled at it after it launched its iPlayer in July...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

OPENhulu – Hulu Videos For Everyone, Invitation Or Not | How Long Will It Last?

When Hulu first launched in late October, it received praise from all quarters, and since then, everyone has either begged, borrowed...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

New York Video 2.0 Meeting Coverage | Pitches From New Startups Of Video & IPTV

Last night saw NY Video 2.0 meeting in the plush surroundings  of the Roosevelt Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Unusual for such an...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read

YouTube AdSense Revenue Share Scheme Being Extended To More Of The General Public

YouTube have been experimenting with advertising on videos for a good few months now, and by all accounts, it;s been quite...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube’s New AtGoogleTalks Video Page | Google Breaks Own 10 Minute Rule On Uploads

Google’s time limit for user-submitted videos uploaded to YouTube is well established, and known by almost everyone these days. Ten minutes. That’s...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Is YouTube The Proper Forum For Human Rights Abuse Videos? The Wael Abbas Case

What is YouTube for? We all know it is there as a means for ordinary people to make and upload clips...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Xbox 360 Gets DivX Functionality – Xbox Live Marketplace Video Store Launching In UK

After last month’s announcement that DixX support was coming to the Sony PS3 games console, there was speculation that the same...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

MyStrands Social Music Service Raises $24 Million In Funding From Spanish Bank

Back in September, we covered the launch of MyStrands.tv, the music video accompaniment to MyStrands, a social music network. At the...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

High Speed, High Quality Digital Film Downloads Demand Growing In The UK

Today saw a survey which produced the interesting yet thoroughly predictable result that there is now an overwhelming demand for fast and...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

YouTube Still Dominating Online Video Market

A ComScore report has further confirmed what we all suspected, that Google YouTube completely dominates the online video market. The report...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

The DSP Technology Behind Video Transcoding

RipCode is a company offering on-demand video transcoding solutions to ease the process of re-purposing video into multiple viewing formats. If...
Brendon Mills
33 sec read

Zml.com | Cheap DRM Free Movie Downloads – Get iPod Ready, PDA, DivX & Hi Res Formats

In a move sure to upset the MPAA, and anti-piracy organisations everywhere, the people behind AllOfMp3 have now created a similar...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Brightcove.tv Gets Canned In Light Of Failure To Beat YouTube At Own Game

By way of sending out a message to all their many users, Brightcove has announced that it is soon going to...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

BBC, ITV and Channel 4 Join Forces & Battle YouTube With ‘Kangaroo’ Online TV Service

It seems Britain’s three biggest broadcasters, namely the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, want a slice of the increasingly popular online...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu – A Great Free Video Service That Seems To Have Improved Greatly Since Launch

At last, the wait is over, and I have finally received my chance to test out Hulu. Hulu is the video service that...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

SuTree – The Video Instruction Site Gets Improvements, Upgrades & More Content

SuTree is an interesting site, launched about 6 months ago, whose aim it is to educate and entertain using the medium...
Phil Butler
2 min read

Vuze – A Legal P2P BitTorrent Service Asks FCC For Help After Being Blocked By Various ISPs

Right from the off, I think we need to face some facts about P2P services.  While certainly capable of acting as...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

SyncTV Rolls Out Subscription Plan With Unlimited Television Episode Downloads

The big problem with online video and television programming isn’t now a lack of availability or choice, but more about the...
Michael Garrett
2 min read

YouTube Introduces New Anti-Bullying Channel | Could ‘Beatbullying’ Video Messages Help?

Bullying can take many forms, and since the evolution of the web, it has even become a problem online, with many...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

Quarterlife Review | A Look At The Response To The New MySpace TV Drama Series

All the way back in September, we brought you word of Quarterlife, a new Internet television series which would début in...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

YouTube To Go High Definition | New Player and High Quality Video Streams On Way

How to describe YouTube in a short, succinct paragraph while truly getting across to the readers how successful a site it...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Online Television News Roundup | Twentieth TV Working With Yahoo, Zillow, Lifetime

Every day, there seems to be a new story about one company or another trying to get in to the old...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read

Bebo Announces ‘Open Media’ Initiative | Social Network Joins Online TV Revolution

Bebo, currently the third largest social network, behind the big guns of MySpace and Facebook, has thrown it’s hat in to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Microsoft To Take On YouTube & Flickr With An All Encompassing Digital Media Hub

Hey everybody, Microsoft is making an attempt at entering the online media realm! And they’re taking on the big boys like...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Maven Networks Leads Internet TV Advertising Forum | Personalising Online Video Adverts

I read an interesting news release a few weeks ago from Maven Networks on the Streaming Media website, about the formation...
Mark Fears
1 min read

NBC Direct Arrives | But Like Hulu & The Daily Show Archives, It’s For US Citizens Only

NBC Direct launched its public beta yesterday, and the blogosphere was immediately awash with thoughts on the service and reviews of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NBC Direct Launches With Full Episodes | Not Quite The Great Service We All Expected

After some false starts, NBC has at last officially launched the download service for its television programming, known as NBC Direct....
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Making Internet TV More Mobile | From The iPhone Downwards, Quality Is The Key

Although Internet television is growing at an incredibly fast rate, it seems moving the medium on to mobile devices is not...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

YouTube Canada Launches | How Lame Is It, and Did We Need It In The First Place?

YouTube launched yet another of their localised international versions of the site on Tuesday, at a flashy press conference with YouTube...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

AT&T Introduce ISP Copyright Filtering Technology Called Vobile VideoDNA

The battle for blocking copyrighted materials from being distributed around the web could be about to get even murkier. It was...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read