Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an essay “Thoughts on Flash” lashed out against Adobe and its “100% proprietary” products. The essay repeats the well-known arguments in the feud between the two companies. Jobs is not shy about dismissing Flash as a technically inferior product. Read more »
Updated: YouTube has started to roll out a new Flash video player across its site that features not only a completely new design, but also offers some nifty bits of information about the performance of the current video. Some users first started to report the player […] Read more »
Today’s news that ABC and Ooyala are testing 99-cent video streams for episodes of the ABC Family show 10 Things I Hate About You brings up an interesting question: What is an episode of a popular TV show worth to its viewers? ABC is trying to […] Read more »
State Attorney General Jerry Brown, Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl and Squid Labs Co-Founder Paul Griffith are just a few of the speakers at tomorrow’s GreenNet 2010 conference. GreenNet is organized by Earth2Tech, which is of course a fellow GigaOM network blog, and we’re happy […] Read more »
Americans love their TVs: The average U.S. household owns 2.93 TV sets, according to new research from Nielsen. That number is up from 2.86 TV sets per household in 2009. But the number of DVRs out there is also rising, as 34 percent of all TV […] Read more »
TechCrunch revealed this weekend that the site is about to launch a 24-hour web TV channel dubbed TechCrunch TV next month. The channel will be spearheaded by TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr, who has been contributing to the site as a weekly columnist for close to a […] Read more »
The developers of the open source h.264 codec x264 have just released an update that makes it possible to burn Blu-ray discs on regular DVD-9 or even DVD-5 DVD-Rs. x264 uses advanced compression to fit Blu-ray movies on much cheaper DVD-Rs “with a reasonable level of […] Read more »
The MIT Technology Review has discovered social TV in its new May/June issue, noting how Twitter and Facebook have been driving audience numbers for live events like the Olympics. That’s not really news to readers of this blog, but I’m glad to see that the Technology […] Read more »
One-click file hoster RapidShare has begun to send cease and desist orders to websites that index its content, according to a Torrentfreak report. Some of the sites targeted are Rapidshare.net, Rapid.org and Rapidshare4movies.com. See a pattern here? Apparently RapidShare’s legal counsel did as well, which is […] Read more »
Netflix is harming Hollywood, and the studios have to team up with telcos to get priority treatment for the traffic of their own VOD offerings if they want to turn their fate around: That’s the gist of a new report published by the U.K.’s Telco 2.0 […] Read more »
Looks like P2P piracy isn’t just for zit-faced teenagers anymore: the act of downloading videos, music, e-books and other goodies is most popular with male users between the ages of 20 and 29, according to a new survey by Germany’s GfK Panel Services that was commissioned […] Read more »
San Francisco-based gay adult entertainment company Titan Media has sued aptly named free video streaming site Monstercocktube.com and its two German founders for copyright infringements, demanding $1.35 million in damages, according to a report from adult industry magazine Xbiz. Titan is alleging that the duo has […] Read more »
NASCAR.com has to date seen 70 percent more video views in 2010 as in the same time frame last year, clocking a total of 14.2 million views by Monday of this week, compared to 8.3 million views in 2009. The site has also seen a more […] Read more »
Xbox users could soon have another reason to cancel cable: former News Corp. President Peter Chernin is reportedly in talks with Microsoft to create an Xbox-only TV network, according to Bloomberg. The channel would feature exclusive programming, as well as reruns of TV network shows. Microsoft […] Read more »
A new collaborative online video editing suite dubbed Stroome is going into public beta this week, with an official unveiling planned for Wednesday at the USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism, where Stroome was developed as a graduate project. Stroome is based on the Kaltura […] Read more »
Dr. Horrible is back for more. For more of its fans love and spare change, that is, as the web’s favorite musical is gearing of for a Blu-ray release next month. The disc will feature a bunch of extras, including the previously released Commentary! The Musical, […] Read more »
Boxee scored its second major sports league partnership today, bringing hockey fans live NHL games through an officially sanctioned NHL GameCenter Live app — provided they’re willing to pay $19.95 per month or $79 per year, that is. The NHL app will offer paying Boxee users […] Read more »
Our posts about Google open sourcing its VP8 video codec have provoked a lot of discussion on NewTeeVee and across the web this week. There seem to be many different opinions out there on what this actually means. Will VP8 become the codec of choice on […] Read more »
Syabas Technology, better know as the maker of the Popcorn Hour set-top box, is officially launching the SDK for its upcoming Popbox device today. The Popbox SDK will allow developers to build Flash lite apps that can be distributed through the device’s app center. Popbox marketing […] Read more »
Ever since we broke the news earlier this week that Google is going to open source its VP8 video codec at its Google i/O event next month, speculations have been abounded as to what this means for Ogg Theora, the video codec of choice of open […] Read more »
Once again, it pays to be first, but having free TV content probably didn’t hurt either: ABC announced today that it has seen more than 212,000 downloads of its iPad application ever since the Apple tablet went on sale less than two weeks ago. The broadcaster also […] Read more »
Are you expecting, elderly or prone to have a few beers while watching a soccer match? Then you shouldn’t watch it in 3-D, according to a warning label Samsung is distributing with its 3-D TV sets (hat tip to High-Def Digest). The CE maker is also […] Read more »
New numbers released by comScore today show record engagement for Hulu in February, with an average of 2.4 hours of video watched by every viewer who tuned into the site’s programming. Hulu’s numbers were still slightly down from December, when it clocked one billion views, but […] Read more »
A new project dubbed Universal Subtitles aims to launch a Wikipedia for subtitles and tools that make it easy for volunteers to add closed captions to any video they find online. Universal Subtitles is a new project by the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), better known as […] Read more »
Nike’s new Tiger Woods commercial is going viral in a massive way, according to new stats from Visible Measures. The clip, which features Tiger looking into the camera while his father’s voice states the wish to “find out what (his) thinking was,” received more than 2.7 […] Read more »
Cisco just added a new Flip camcorder to its line of consumer products which aims to close the gap to touch-screen cell phones and other mobile video viewing devices. The Flip SlideHD features a 3-inch wide-screen touch screen that slides out to watch recorded and shared […] Read more »
Google’s decision to open source On2 Technology’s VP8 video codec at its Google I/O developer conference next month is not only a huge boon for HTML5 web video and a blow against Adobe’s Flash. It’s also clearly aimed at optimizing video playback on a number of […] Read more »
Netflix is shipping Wii discs required to access Watch Instantly streaming on the game console to all of its members, the company announced on its blog today. Customers can request their own free Wii disc on the company’s web site. The launch of the Wii disc […] Read more »
You could call them the Oscars of the web, the Emmys of online video, or the Webbys of… webby things with moving images, I guess. Either way, the Streamy Awards, which are happening this Sunday in Los Angeles, are indisputably the most prestigious awards show of […] Read more »
Will the iPad change the way we watch video? The jury is still out on questions like these, but let’s face it: iPad users love video, and the video world loves the iPad, with numerous sites and apps already serving up movies, TV shows and web […] Read more »
Twitter users are way more engaged with music videos than average web surfers, new stats from Brightcove show. A user that stumbles across a music video via Twitter watches two and a half minutes of the clip, on average, before clicking away. One who finds music […] Read more »
Want to watch a TV show like Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family or 24 on your iPad? Or how about news, sports or viral videos? There’s an app for that — and then some. App developers are quickly jumping onto Apples new device, submitting tons of apps, […] Read more »
Want to watch Tiger Woods play golf live online? Apparently, you’re not the only one: CBSSports.com is clocking record numbers for its live stream of the 2010 Masters Live tournament. The broadcaster clocked 56,090 556,090 unique visitors tuning into its live streams yesterday alone, which represents […] Read more »
Basketball fans were able to watch the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in 3-D in 55 theaters nationwide earlier this week, thanks to cooperation between NCAA broadcast rights holder CBS and LG Electronics, which wanted to use the event to get consumers excited in 3-D technology. CBS […] Read more »
Los Angeles-based social video start-up Qlipso has bought the assets of San Diego-based video sharing site Veoh, according to a report from Socaltech.com. Veoh’s web site already reflects the change of ownership, stating: “Now part of qlipso, so you can share the fun!” Details of the […] Read more »
Brightcove has raised a Series D round of financing amounting to $12 million, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The financing of the Cambridge, Mass.-based video platform provider was led by existing investors Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners, with AOL, Hearst, AllianceBernstein, […] Read more »
So you got your brand-spanking new iPad, and you’ve spent the last half hour rotating the screen, importing your media and playing with a few apps. Time to take a break and watch some web video. Problem is, not every site is ready for iPad use. […] Read more »
Fox is releasing a so-called hypertrailer for its hit show Glee today that allows viewers to friend characters of the show on Facebook right within the video player while watching a preview for an upcoming episode. The key to this integration of additional web content within […] Read more »
If you’re going to read one thing this long holiday weekend, don’t waste your time on yet another iPad story. Head over to Clay Shirky’s blog instead and read his great new piece titled The Collapse of Complex Business Models. It’s all about the transformation of […] Read more »
Guess what: The iPad launch isn’t the only thing happening this weekend. The last two games of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament before the finals are going down this Saturday, and the Final Four have been getting lots of buzz on Twitter all week. Which […] Read more »
