The iPhone 4 has been getting great reviews in part because of its ability to record HD video. But is the phone’s camera good enough for professional productions? Ad director Jerry Dugan wanted to find out and mounted the device right next to his RED camera. Read more »
With the U.S. team, Mexico and many others heading home, will online traffic for World Cup streams and Twitter live updates plummet? First stats seem to signal that interest in the tournament is ebbing off, but the U.S. team’s last game still saw some significant traffic. Read more »
uTorrent, known as one of the most popular and P2P file sharing clients for Windows, is coming to the Mac: A first 1.0 stable version is available now for download, and uTorrent maker BitTorrent Inc. is planing to soon offer feature parity between the two versions. Read more »
RapidShare used to reward users for generating traffic with hugely popular free downloads, but the one-click-hoster is now revamping its offerings to move into a different direction: Content owners will be able to sell files, making it essentially possible to launch download stores powered by RapidShare. Read more »
Amazon’s new iPad and iPhone apps let users play audio and video clips within select book titles. The online retailer currently only offers about a dozen titles with such multimedia enhancements, but the update could mean that the next Kindle will support video playback as well. Read more »
Looking for a live stream of the World Cup? Then don’t fall for one of countless scam sites that promise goals, but deliver malware. Kaspersky Lab told us of sites distribute password-stealing trojans, and live-streaming companies try to rid themselves of these types of scammers. Read more »
CBS today disputed claims by ESPN said that the World Cup face-off between the U.S. and Algeria was the biggest U.S.) online sporting event ever, saying one of its March Madness on Demand live streams had more unique viewers. ESPN3, however, is standing firm. Read more »
Hulu’s paid subscription service has been in the works for months, and the site is reportedly ready to roll it out to a limited number of users next week. Part of the $9.95 offering could be an iPad app as well as support for game consoles. Read more »
Roku users could soon have access to VOD and linear programming offered by their cable TV operator, thanks to a new partnership between the set-top box maker and TV start-up Clearleap. The partnership also paves the way for Roku to work closer with pay TV operators. Read more »
YouTube has scored a victory in the copyright infringement lawsuit waged against it by Viacom, but the biggest winner of the day may be the DMCA — the 1998 law that was at the core of Google’s defense and that has been called outdated by some. Read more »
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has just granted YouTube’s motion for summary judgment against Viacom, meaning that the site is off the hook in Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement case. Read more »
Three strikes and you’re out used to be the entertainment industry’s favorite approach against P2P piracy. However, with more and more people moving towards one-click hosters, Paramount COO Frederick Huntsberry is now calling three strikes ineffective, instead calling for laws to have ISPs block pirate websites. Read more »
Ehrensenf is one of the best-known and longest running web TV shows in Germany. We stopped by their office in Cologne recently to hear more about what’s special about producing a show for a German audience. One of the biggest differences, apparently: Everyone is speaking German. Read more »
Comcast and NBC secured a number of well-know supporters for their proposed merger, but today’s FCC comment filing deadline was also used by a number of companies, labor unions and public interest groups to express opposition to the idea of both companies joining forces. Read more »
The World Cup has been a big traffic machine for ESPN3. The broadband network tracked close to 800,000 soccer fans tuning in for the match between the U.S. and Slovenia. Competitor Univisionfutbol.com on the other hand had its best day when Mexico faced off against France. Read more »
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its Knight News Challenge today, and the projects taking home some substantial prize money include the collaborative online video editor Stroome, an attempt to bring live video streaming to court rooms and a project utilizing user-generated content from soldiers. Read more »
FFmpeg released a new version 0.6 with support for Google’s open source WebM video codec this week. FFmpeg is a suite of tools and libraries that is an important backbone of many well-known video players, transcoding applications and even TV platforms like Boxee, VLC and MPlayer. Read more »
ESPN3 attracted more than 1.7 million viewers to its live streams of the World Cup during the first four full days of the tournament. The broadcaster says that Internet and mobile offerings now account for eight percent of all minutes viewed across all of its platforms. Read more »
OK Go wants its new video to go viral, and the band is promoting the clip with a competition on Facebook that it has dubbed the “my ‘friends’ are cooler than your ‘friends’ video contest.” The rules, in short: The person with the most comments wins. Read more »
Stuck at work without a TV to watch the World Cup? ESPN3 is one of the sites that streams most of the games live for free – but you may not be able to access any of them if you’re signed up with the wrong ISP. Read more »
Still don’t know what Google TV is all about? The company wants to explain it to you in detail, and it has released a new video tour to do so. The video features various third-party content sources compatible with Google TV, but Hulu.com is notably absent. Read more »
Updated: Watching the World Cup at work is easier than ever, thanks to free live streams from ESPN3 and Univision. However, is the online soccer experience also enjoyable? We tested both sites, and struggled with pixelated pictures and a live feed that was anything but real time. Read more »
TiVo is partnering with Framechannel to bring content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and some 1000 other sources to its DVR. However, don’t expect this to be a very interactive experience: Framechannel has been optimizing this content for digital picture frames and similar consumption-only media experiences. Read more »
This weekend poll is for all the soccer fans out there: How are you following the World Cup? Are you tuning into online streams like the ones offered by ESPN3 or Univisionfutbol.com, or are you sticking to watching the games on TV? NewTeeVee wants to know. Read more »
Boxee’s set-top box was scheduled to go on sale this month, but the device won’t actually hit stores until November, the company has announced. Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told us that there were delays in the software production schedule, but he didn’t want to point fingers. Read more »
The 2010 World Cup in South Africa started today, and Twitter is already seeing huge traffic from fans all over the world chiming in, with up to 150,000 tweets per hour. And Twitter has acknowledged that it’s already struggling with availability issues. Read more »
HTC’s new EVO 4G handset supports HD 720p video recording – but is the recording quality good enough to make its owners ditch their Flip camcorder? We took both devices for a spin outside our office this week and show you the results side by side. Read more »
Turkish Internet users have been blocked from accessing YouTube since 2008 – but the country still wants Google to pay taxes for the video site. The demands come as Turkey is actually stepping up its censorship against YouTube, inadvertently blocking many other Google services as well. Read more »
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is starting in a few days, and soccer will b able to watch the entire tournament online and on their mobile phones, thanks to live streams from ESPN and Univision. However, not every live video stream will be available to everyone. Read more »
Apple’s new iPhone 4 features 720p HD recording, a built-in LED spotlight and the ability to edit videos on the spot through a dedicated iPhone version of iMovie. All of those features should make Cisco pretty nervous as they make the company’s Flip camcorder look outdated. Read more »
Netflix is rolling out a free iPhone app, the company’s CEO Reed Hastings announced during Apple’s WWDC keynote event today. The new app will offer access to the entire Netflix VOD catalog via instant queue and search and also offer streaming through AT&T’s 3G network. Read more »
Want to play videos encoded with WebM, the new video format that Google open sourced at its developers conference last week? Well, look no further: The new version of VLC supports WebM playback. Another feature included in the new release is hardware decoding for H.264 videos. Read more »
Comments on YouTube can be pretty rowdy at times. Good thing that YouTube publishers now have a new tool at their disposal to surface good contributions, guide the discussion and even get some interesting feedback on their own work, thanks to YouTube’s integration of Google Moderator. Read more »
Ashton Kutcher has announced via Twitter that he is going to pirate part of the premiere of his upcoming movie Killers. Kutcher is known as an avid live streamer and social media user — but could this latest promotional stunt also turn him into a criminal? Read more »
Google’s new open source video format WebM will become more popular than H.264 in one to two years, Brightcove’s President and COO David Mendels predicts. One of the first major websites to try out WebM for its web videos could be the New York Times. Read more »
The state of U.S. broadband is mediocre compared to countries like South Korea. Things are even worse in China. But the U.S. has some great online video sites, and China continues to innovate in the P2P video space. What does that say about broadband and innovation? Read more »
Techuniversity.com, the newest addition to the GigaOm network, just added a new screencast about everything you need to know to get started with Final Cut Pro. Read more »
Sexual affairs, fast sports cars and 30 day trial periods for CD burning software: Those are just some of the elements of a pretty juicy lawsuit German software maker NERO has filed against MPEG LA, the company that licenses video codecs like MPEG-2 and H.264. Read more »
Ever wondered how live streaming companies can possibly make any money? Well, how about this for a clue: Ustream announced its new Global Production Services division today, offering offers professional streaming services for concerts, conferences and other events. Live streaming a gig costs $20,000 a night. Read more »
The season finale of Lost yesterday was seen by 13.5 million viewers in the U.S., plus millions more around the globe through an unprecedented simulcast aimed at preventing P2P piracy. Pundits may think that’s weak, since earlier episodes of had up to 20 million people viewers, […] Read more »
