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Apple didn’t announce the number of Apple TVs sold as part of its earnings release, but Steve Jobs reported on the company’s investor call that it’s sold more than 250,000 Apple TVs since the company first made the product available in early September. Read More »

Kids, stay in school! At least if you’re at NYU’s IPT program, that is, because its students can actually get credits for developing apps for Boxee, as NYU’s Shawn Van Every told the audience of the TV of Tomorrow Show … Read More »

 
 

Apple has always been in the innovation business, and the iPad is no exception. And the iPad, like the iPod before it, could fundamentally change the way we consume media — in this case, video. The iPad might not be the first mass … Read More »

Sling Player Mobile 2.0 for WinMo Gets Finger Friendly

As a long-time Slingbox owner, it’s good to see the mobile software still progressing. While I’m wishing for an Android version of the client, Windows Mobile users keep marching forward — today the company released SlingPlayer Mobile v.2.0 for WinMo 6 touchscreen device … Read More »

Break Media is betting big on social gaming, announcing today that it has launched a game production house in China and will soon introduce what it hopes will be the first of many new social games. In addition to the male-oriented Break.com, the company … Read More »

YouTube announced the launch of an HTML5 video test on its blog last evening, but had some trouble delivering on its promise. The test only went live hours after the blog post, leaving many users wondering what all the fuzz was about. Adding to … Read More »

Vid-Biz: Boxee, Sling, NAB

Boxee Box Remote Has a QWERTY Keyboard; the company says for people to get the most out of the box the remote was going to need to do more than just point and click. (Boxee blog) Meanwhile, Engadget goes ‘hands on’ with the Boxee Box. … Read More »

Netgear threw a press event last night to show off some of the products it will be debuting at CES next month. Among them was its new set-top box, the EVA 9000 Digital Entertainer Elite, which, to my pleasant surprise, can stream HD YouTube videos to … Read More »

The Sling Media team is on a bit of a high this week. A few days after being acquired by Echostar (DISH), the Foster City, CA-based company is introducing a new product called the Slingbox SOLO. The sleek and very attractive device connects to a … Read More »

By guest columnist Jonathan Greene. I just updated my AppleTV with the latest software to get access to YouTube and I have to say that the H.264 quality is excellent! We all know what the majority of YouTube video looks like, but this is … Read More »

Which will come first — an overload of “Craigslist has gone to the birds” headlines, or an Internet traffic jam to the webcam on company founder Craig Newmark’s back porch? Right now we are giving even odds, after reading the Wired post about a research … Read More »

HOW TO: Make Internet TV

As much as I love online video, that doesn’t mean that I don’t think most of it is crap — crap I say! Shaky hand-held shots zoomed digitally, terrible lighting, no scripting or storyboarding and audio that sounds like it was recorded with a cell … Read More »

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In a meta-moment, Justin of Justin.tv had a chat with MTV’s Real World veteran Irene McGee at this weekend’s SuperHappyVlogHouse in San Francisco. The event, along with others put on across the country, was part creative salon, part policy summit, … Read More »

Just a couple days after the Apple TV ceased to be a figment of the imagination and started showing up on shipping trackers, hackers worldwide have already begun to explore and expand the device’s functionality. Of course, what does it say about the device that … Read More »

I love Flash-based video content. It’s lightweight, widely supported, and can do neat things like embed across sites and ping servers even when played locally. QuickTime is a venerable institution, and Windows Media Player has its fans (I guess), but the usability and functionality … Read More »

Leave it to the fans of the original Star Trek to not only spend the kind of time and money it takes to recreate the original show, but to bring back some of the groundbreaking storylines and characters that made the original so compelling to a … Read More »

Video search service Blinkx has put together a white paper detailing how to optimize your content for video search and a wiki where the online video community can update and advise each other going forward, launching today. The document covers everything from title … Read More »

SXSW REPORT — If last year was the year of ‘Web 2.0′ at South by Southwest Interactive, this is the year that video killed the Internet rockstar. A total of fifteen panels at the conference are, for the first time, cross-listed in both the … Read More »

The science of advertising and marketing is both incredibly compelling and incredibly creepy. Case in point: a study written up on the Neuromarketing blog which used physiological data collected from test subjects to see if there was a way to quantify a uniform emotional … Read More »

Windows Media Player and iTunes are duking it out with incompatible DRM, trying to leverage their respective dominance in operating systems and media devices. Like Sauron, Gates and Jobs are trying to forge the one media player to rule them all. In the meantime, … Read More »

What’s NewTeeVee going to look like in three to five years? It’s not that far away, but we’re imagining it’s going to be a light year from the video-viewing experience from five years ago. Yesterday’s video sharing sites, cameraphones and high-definition promises are the … Read More »

BoingBoing yesterday featured a clip mocking a Canadian politician known for pushing tougher copyright law and receiving generous contributions from the entertainment industry, Bev Oda. The clip reworks the Durham MP’s name into the Kinks classic ‘Lola,’ and highlights reports that Read More »

Last month we featured measurement from Compete.com of the top 20 online video sites, according to its panel. Compete ranks according to “sessions” spent on a site, but it’s interesting to note that the number of unique visitors to one or more of the top … Read More »

Looking ahead to the future, I think that one of the problems that will be solved is how to ‘program’ web video content. Not in the technical sense, but in the traditional television sense. I still think that one of the things that OldTeeVee … Read More »

Editor’s note: The following post is for entertainment purposes only. Please refer to this press release for all the facts about the exciting news that more educational programming is coming to a 10-gigabit network. “Dude!” “dude.” “Goin’ out tonight?” “No man, I’m going to get LambdaRailed.” “Man, I … Read More »

The HDTV Blogger has found a tracker distributing the torrent of an HD version of the movie Serenity, resulting in an Internet-wide nerdgasm. The 19.6GB file is apparently in full 1080p resolution with Dolby 5.1 surround sound, and is playable in PowerDVD or … Read More »

The Pirate Bay (TPB) has teamed up with their ally, the Armed Coalition Forces of Internets (ACFI), having declared ‘mission accomplished’ in Ladonia, are now raising funds toward a kopimist invasion of The Principality of Sealand. If unsuccesful, the pirates plan to find … Read More »

GigaOM pal Andy Abramson over at VoIP Watch stirred the blog-pot a bit with his piece on the “new instant journalists.” Nicholas Carr then proceeded to use the oldest flamer tactic in the book — correcting someone’s grammar to demean their argument — … Read More »

In a feature for Wired News, Robert Lemos was asked to unplug the coaxial cable from his television and to entertain his family of five with only “legally available Internet content.” With a mixture of iTunes, Xbox Live Marketplace and network sites like CBS … Read More »

One of the oldest tricks in the film book is to release your trailer well before you’ve finished the movie so that you have a compelling piece of content to close deals with investors and distributors. One of the newest tricks in the film book … Read More »

Think videoconferencing is going to be big? Cisco, the biggest networking company, sure does. Chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo followed up his boss’s declaration that video is the killer app Tuesday by declaring that Cisco’s recently announced Telepresence setup, which (according to Cisco) allows … Read More »

Check out Paul live-blogging a Cisco C-Scape analysts conference over on GigaOM proper. “JC is all video all the time” he tells us over IM. JC being John Chambers, of course, for Cisco geeks like Paul. Read the full post for tidbits on “quad … Read More »

Brightcove this week announced the beta release of a feature that lets Brightcove users accept user-generated videos. Theoretically, this means anyone using Brightcove to host their video site could become a mini-YouTube, albeit with editorial control over submissions. We haven’t played with the code yet, … Read More »

BSkyB Gets Googly: The British broadcaster joins forces with search giant to provide Sky-branded Google services (like YouTube video sharing) to its U.K. broadband customers. Light Reading’s Mark Sullivan reports that “BSkyB will build customized versions of Google’s Gmail, contacts, calendar, and instant messaging services,” … Read More »

VentureBeat reports Pluggd, a Seattle-based audio and video search startup, has raised $1.65 million from Intel and a group of angels. Pluggd, which we first met at DEMO this year, is trying to use speech recognition tools to help make sense of audio and … Read More »

TiVoToGo, the software that allowed TiVo owners to watch saved shows on approved digital devices, has had their DRM shorts pulled down on the playground. Of course, the current crack is an uncompiled, command-line C program that isn’t exactly what anyone would … Read More »

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