Linear TV still reigns supreme, but more and more consumers around the world are using time shifting and online video on a regular basis. A new study from Ericsson’s ConsumerLab say that 45 percent of all viewers access TV through online platforms once a week. Read more »
Boxee users can now find new movies for streaming just as easily as they’ve been able to explore TV content, thanks to a new movie library that’s part of the latest software update. The movie library offers access to content from Hulu, YouTube and indie partners. Read more »
Boxee users can now download torrents to a remote server and then stream the video files right within the application, thanks to a new Boxee app by Put.io. The remote file sharing service could even be used to set up a cloud-based DVR for Boxee. Read more »
Do we need yet another media player? Netgear certainly thinks so, and they added Blu-ray supoort to their new NeoTV 550 device make their case. The company is also releasing a number of Powerline products specifically targeted towards bringing HD video streaming to the living room. Read more »
Owners of Samsung’s Blu-ray players have been unable to play dozens of Blu-ray titles from Warner and Universal due to copy protection gone awry. Some have been struggling with these issues for months, and Samsung’s customer suport told one caller a fix could take a year. Read more »
Western Digital is introducing a new powerline home networking adapter today that’s specifically pitched as a way to get video into the living room. The WD Livewire Powerline AV Network Kit could be a good fit for people with Internet-ready TVs and set-top boxes. Read more »
U.S. Pay TV subscriptions have declined for the first time in history in the second quarter. Comcast & other cableco’s lost a total of 711,000 subscribers last quarter, which represents the biggest quarterly loss ever for cable TV. Telcos and sattellite TV providers were better off. Read more »
You don’t need a $500 iPad to control Internet video on your TV: Neuros CEO Joe Born thinks that cheap $150 Android tablets like the ones recently sold by Kmart work just fine, even if the hardware of these devices leaves a lot to be desired. Read more »
Civicus World Assembly; representatives from 94 countries talking about ways to deal with issues like climate change and poverty. (Livestream, Saturday, 5.15 AM – 2 PM PT & Sunday 5.30 AM – 7 PM PT) V Festival; the U.K.’s largest live music festival will stream part […] Read more »
Video podcasters and other online video producers will like Google TV, judging from a new clip that is providing us with an in-depth look at the Google TV interface. Turns out, Google TV will feature a full-fledged podcast directory as well as universal video content search. Read more »
Posting a video that shows unflattering photos of well-known Democratic politicians to the tune of the Baha Men’s Who Let the Dogs Out on an official GOP website may not have been the best idea, but it sure got the party a lot of attention. Read more »
YouTube is clocking more than 3 billion video views each month from the top 2500 members of its partner program alone. That means more chances to make money, but not necessarily a lot of money for everyone: Most of these views are generated by music labels. Read more »
Remember how you thought everyone should have a DVR the first time you used one? Well, your dream may almost have come true: Six out of ten TV viewers now use a digital video recorder for time shifting, according to a new survey commissioned by Comcast. Read more »
Private Media Group CEO Berth Milton doesn’t think it’s worth fighting piracy. The porn veteran wants to instead give the content of his adult entertainment company away and use it as a free promotional tool to build a new business based on actual real-life sex. Read more »
Enterprise video conferencing is growing 29 percent per year, but growth is still hampered by the fact that there is no interoperability between systems deployed by some of the biggest vendors. GigaOM Pro analyst Lisa Pierce is predicting that the sector could explode without those barriers. Read more »
If your Facebook profile picture could talk, what would it say? Anything you want it to is the answer from the makers of Vanityvid, a new site that aims to replace static profile pictures on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter with short video clips. Read more »
Feel like you’ve been seeing a lot more ads on Hulu lately? Guess what, you’re right: New numbers from comScore show that close to 84 percent of all videos shown on Hulu are now advertisements. That makes Hulu by far the biggest video ad network. Read more »
Netflix signed up with Epix this week, paying a reported $1 billion over five years for the right to stream Epix content online. That’s the second such deal Netflix has struck, which begs the question: With which company should the DVD rental service partner next? Read more »
The Second Life Community Convention Keynote: Philip Rosedale; SLCC is going down in Boston this weekend, and Linden Labs CEO Philip Rosedale (aka Philip Linden, as he is know in his virtual world) will deliver the first keynote speech. (Ustream, Saturday, 5am PT) Rockstar Energy Mayhem […] Read more »
What’s worth watching today: KORN & Rob Zombie rock out at the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, Bayern Munich faces off against Real Madrid, a music video for a song entirely recorded with iPad apps, and more. Read more »
Google’s new Chrome to Phone extension makes it possible to send YouTube videos from your laptop to your Android handset with the click of a single button. That’s clever – and also gives us an idea of how Google TV could work in concert with browsers. Read more »
Social micropayment service Flattr opened up its beta test today, making it possible for anyone to give money Digg style: Flattr users can spread micropayments to online video makers and others by simply clicking on a Flattr button that is embedded into a creator’s web site. Read more »
What’s worth watching today: The HPOA dry erase girl talks to CBS News, bowling champions face off in Germany, brilliant minds talk at TEDx Kansas, Mandy Moore wants to rid the world of malaria, and more. Read more »
What, another redesign? I know what you’re thinking. It has only been a few months since we completely revamped NewTeeVee’s web site – and now we are changing it all over again? Well, this isn’t as much of a redesign than a GigaOm family reunion. Read more »
Today on the Net: Disney CEO Bob Iger is liking the iPad, Apple is going back to its roots with a new name for its Apple TV device, Ustream is going to Hollywood, DIRECTV is partnering with Google for TV ads, and more. Read more »
Apple TV, we hardly knew ya… Engadget is reporting today that Apple will rename its living room device to iTV to closer lign up with the branding of other iProducts. There’s also news about the specs of the device: It won’t be able to play 1080p. Read more »
Want to watch Hulu on your TV set? All you need is a Wi-Fi dongle and a computer with some software supporting Broadcom’s Inconcert Maestro API. Broadcom demoed this new technology for the first time in the U.S. yesterday, and we’ve got a video of it. Read more »
Bigger screens lead to longer mobile video engagement times: That’s the result of some data crunching over at MobiTV, which analyzed the World Cup viewing patterns of various mobile users. Another result of that research: Users of Android devices watch far more soccer than iPhone users. Read more »
What’s worth watching today: Tears Of Fears co-founder Curtis Smith meets up with fellow musicians, Little League players aim for the home run, Justin Bieber clocks view counts on YouTube, and more. Read more »
Netflix is paying an estimated $200 million dollars for its newly-won rights to stream Epix content to its subscribers online. Is that too much? Some analysts are cautioning that costs could become prohibitive once other partners are going to demand the same kind of rates. Read more »
The Internet is coming to the flat-screen TV in your living room, and one of the devices that’s making this possible is the set-top box provided by your cable TV company. A new report estimates that hybrid set-top boxes will be worth $1.4 billion by 2014. Read more »
What’s worth watching today: Merton of Chatroulette fame gets interviewed by ReelSEO in song form, the U.S. soccer team faces off against Brazil, Ving Rhames gets interviewed by the AP, and more. Read more »
Slide CEO Max Levchin is joining Google with the acquisition of his company, but some of his thinking could collide with the way Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been approaching social products like Google Wave. One of the biggest issues: Levchin really doesn’t like failure. Read more »
The Universal Subtitles project launched an early test version of its captioning tool in collaboration with the Mozilla Labs design challenge. The tool allows users to watch videos with subtitles in many different languages and also add their own captions through a nifty online subtitle editor. Read more »
Germany’s TV networks are getting ready to compete with Hulu before the U.S. site has even launched in Europe: The RTL Group and the Pro 7 Sat 1 Media AG plan to open their own Hulu-like site, offering catch-up TV for up to seven days. Read more »
Today on the Net: Canada’s Telus uses Microsoft’s Xbox as an IPTV set-top box, Time Warner’s CEO likes the effect that the Netflix rental window is having on DVD sales and Suprnova.org won’t serve torrents any more. Read more »
Dish subscribers will be able to watch their satellite TV programming on their iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch starting in September. Support for Blackberry devices will also be rolled out that month, and Android users will be able to join in on the fun in October. Read more »
A new bill could force CBS.com, NBC.com and others to add closed captions to all TV content streamed online. Smaller publishers are exempt for now. Still, adding closed captions to your video will make hearing impaired viewers, office workers and even the Google Bot happy. Read more »
French government officials recently drafted a proposal for a broad spyware initiative that would log users’ Internet surfing and downloading habits in order to prevent file sharing piracy. The spyware would also block access to certain websites and track the applications installed on a user’s computer. Read more »
Today on the Net: Will Ferrell stars in an exclusive Wired iPad app video, Howcast is clocking 25 million video views per month, network execs want more ad dollars for TV Everywhere content and 3G iPhone users can now install Facetime by voiding their warranty. Read more »
