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 »
Episodic, a San Francisco-based Web video hosting start-up has been acquired by Google, according to a post on Episodic’s blog. Financial details of the deals have not been announced, but Episodic previously raised $2.5 million in financing. The two-year old Episodic will continue to offer its services to […] Read more »
Mainstream media companies aren’t the only ones gearing up for the launch of the iPad this Saturday. iPad users will also soon have access to plenty of porn optimized for Apple’s touch-screen device, thanks to a number of studios working feverishly on converting their catalogs over […] Read more »
UPDATED YouTube was struggling to keep its site up in face of its relaunch this afternoon, with Twitter users complaining by the hundreds that the site is down, and YouTube’s web server delivering “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” messages and 502 errors. At the time of writing, it […] Read more »
YouTube just shared a few more details about its video page relaunch, which is scheduled to go live this evening. The relaunch is based on a number of features the site has been trying out over the last couple of months, which include a cleaner page […] Read more »
How about this for an eyebrow-rasier: Panasonic decided against using Android on its connected TV sets because of its costs, according to a Bloomberg report. Now, mind you, Google is giving its Android OS for mobile devices away for free, and there are no signs that […] Read more »
Updated: YouTube just informed its partners via email that it’s going to roll out a complete redesign of its video pages later today, making some of the changes that the site has been experimenting with in recent months available to everyone. YouTube is calling this “one […] Read more »
We’ve all been wondering what role exactly Apple’s iPad will play for video. Will it change the way we watch video, or underwhelm with a botched aspect ratio? How about this for a change: Method Inc. VP of Engagement John Gilles believes that the iPad, and […] Read more »
The four final games of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are being shown in 3-D in movie theaters across India, according to an Economic Times report. The IPL, which is the most popular cricket league in the world, will show the two semifinal games as well […] Read more »
Netflix started to send out a first shipment of Wii disks last week, making it possible to access its watch Instantly online video on demand offering on the gaming console. A few Netflix customers have already shared their first impressions, and the verdicts are mixed. There […] Read more »
Hollywood has been handed a legal victory against U.K.-based Usenet indexing site Newzbin by the England and Wales High Court today. The court found Newzbin to be liable of copyright infringement and ordered it to prevent any further acts of infringement related to titles from 20th […] Read more »
There’s a number of reasons why tech entrepreneurs from all over the world travel to the Valley. In the case of Bambuser co-founders Hans Eriksson and Jonas Vig, the weather may have added another incentive. Live streaming start-up Bambuser is located in Sweden’s capital Stockholm, and […] Read more »
Things are getting serious for lacrosse fans, with the National Lacrosse League heading into its final month of the 2010 season. This weekend will be especially action-packed, with the Washington Stealth facing off against the Colorado Mammoth and the Minnesota Swarm taking on the Calgary Roughnecks […] Read more »
H.264, Ogg Theora, MP4, Xvid, MKV, FLV: The world of online video can be pretty confusing. Not only are there tons of different formats and acronyms, but various devices and services actually have vastly different requirements. A video you downloaded via BitTorrent most likely won’t play […] Read more »
Swiss-based one-click file hoster RapidShare wants to redirect users in search for pirated content to legitimate downloads, according to a report by Torrentfreak, which is based on an internal email supposedly sent by RapidShare CEO Bobby Chang. Torrentfreak is reporting that Chang approached representatives of unnamed […] Read more »
Bystanders recording rescue efforts with their cell-phone cameras are oftentimes interfering with the work of ambulance staff. However, Stockholm-based live streaming startup Bambuser believes that mobile video capturing actually has its place in emergency response, as long as it’s the ambulance workers themselves doing the filming. […] Read more »
Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) just launched Ultimatefighter.com, a site that features every single episode of the last 10 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter. It offers fans the option of watching just the fights without any of the trash talking, and each and […] Read more »
Netflix has started to send out a first batch of the disks required to access its Watch Instantly service with Nintendo’s Wii gaming console, according to a post published on its corporate blog. There, VP of Marketing Jessie Becker writes that Netflix is shipping an unspecified […] Read more »
Adobe Flash 10.1 for Android isn’t even out yet, but there are already plenty of videos out there teasing us with all the great things a Nexus One will be able to do once you can get the latest version of Flash for it. The most […] Read more »
Boxee users now have direct access to Streamy Award-nominated shows like Anyone But Me and Blue Movies, thanks to an official Koldcast TV app for Boxee that was unveiled today. The app, which was just announced on Boxee’s blog, offers access to all of Koldcast’s programming […] Read more »
Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network. Frankel, whose also wrote the then hugely-popular Winamp MP3 player software, supposedly named the client after his favorite hazelnut cream spread. Read more »
Three million people used the March Madness On Demand video player to catch the first round of the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship online yesterday, according to a press release sent out by CBS Sports today. Sports fans watched a total of 3.4 million hours of […] Read more »
March 24 will mark the day that the first sports game ever will be broadcast live in 3-D to a U.S. audience, thanks to a cooperation between MSG and Cablevision. Hockey-loving Cablevision subscribers will be able to catch the Rangers face off against the Islanders on […] Read more »
Want to watch a March Madness live stream on your Android mobile phone? Then let’s hope that you’ve got some good friends at Adobe. The company’s Platform Evangelist Ryan Stewart just published a video on YouTube that demonstrates watching March Madness live via 3G on a […] Read more »
Open source video platform provider Kaltura launched a new site called HTML5Video.org today that is meant to be an industry resource for HTML5 video-related issues. The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance and the Wikimedia Foundation. The launch coincides with the release of […] Read more »
A new website aptly named Videoonwikipedia.org aims to get more users to contribute video clips to Wikipedia by demystifying some of the issues related to the site’s video format. Videoonwikipedia.org was launched today by the Participatory Culture Foundation, which is also known for its Miro video […] Read more »
Google has partnered with Sony, Intel and Logitech to develop a yet-unannounced product called Google TV. It will be based on Android and could be a dedicated set-top box or a software platform that could be deployed on Internet-connected TVs and similar devices. Read more »
YouTube’s users are uploading 24 hours of video every minute, the site’s director of product management Hunter Walk just announced. From Walks’s blog post: “A day’s worth of content uploaded to YouTube every minute is a big achievement for our community and speaks to the role […] Read more »
Jibjab co-founders and brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis are pulling no punches in an interview that NewTeeVee reader and CinemaTech blogger Scott Kirsner was kind enough to pass on to us. Asked if advertising works for his industry, Gregg responds: “To support a high-quality produced product […] Read more »
The American Film Institute (AFI) informed its supporters late last week that it will put its Digital Content Lab on hiatus, effectively ending a long-running program that matched up broadcasters and studios with software and device vendors, as well as designers and UI experts, to develop […] Read more »
