It’s no accident that the Adult Entertainment Expo and Consumer Electronics Show are always held on the same week in Las Vegas. The adult video industry was largely made possible by the introduction of the VCR, and the production and distribution of erotic content has always […] Read more »
Over at GigaGamez, Wagner James Au takes a look at the History Channel’s effort to promote a television show with a video game: When the History Channel wanted to promote a new show called “Shootout!“, yet another combat-oriented documentary series for the cable station’s roster, they […] Read more »
It’s Friday, which means I’ll be keeping an eye on the VCD Quality index to see what new releases have appeared online. I also generally check in on the Mininova front page just to see what’s popular at the moment. But in the quest to improve […] Read more »
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These days, it’s rare to come across a startup in the online video space that’s doing something we can’t name five competitors for. But it happened this week with SideKlick, whose concept of providing relevant video based on cues from instant messaging conversations is just wacky […] Read more »
The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping that The Venice Project will upend the television experience just […] Read more »
This post probably should have gone up earlier, but I was too distracted by Steve Jobs’ iJunk in a box. So in the spirit of service, I’m putting my top three “In a box” response videos in one place. Because if there’s one thing I learned […] Read more »
Since it seemed like every other person at CES this year was sending video up the tubes, we asked a videoblogging authority — Blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan — for her take on the intersection of Vegas, videoblogs and the future of TV. We caught up with Dina […] Read more »
Emily Steel at the Wall Street Journal spoke to some network execs about the prime-time hits they’re now offering online. She reports back we should expect more shows moving online, and more shows produced exclusively for the web. Also on the way are “more interactive components, […] Read more »
Do you love online video? Can you string words together in informative and entertaining ways? We here at NewTeeVee are looking to expand the team. If you’re interested, send clips to tips@newteevee.com. Read more »
With Dovetail joining the club of sites that promise to pay you for your video content, I decided to look around for a list of places for media makers looking to distribute their work and get paid. Online video isn’t going to see many professional productions […] Read more »
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Sigh… yet another sign of online video frothiness! When it comes to user created video, apparently downloads are more valuable (not to mention more costly) that simple video views on the web. Dovetail.TV, a San Francisco-based start-up that we have written about in the past started […] Read more »
A couple nights ago while I was waiting for a call from Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip, Om IMed over a new financial videoblog for me to check out: BigBigNews, with a bouffant-clad guy asking for stock picks from people living on the street. Watch BigBigNews (below) […] Read more »
Brazilian Daniela Cicarelli — made famous for her marriage to Ronaldo, if not her modeling…or was it her MTV hosting? — has become infamous for using the courts to shut down YouTube in Brazil. This is a story we first posted on last week, after a […] Read more »
Could Apple’s new living room device lack certain DRM? That’s what Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing has heard: the Apple TV does not include HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Copy Protection), the copy protection hardware paired with digital video and audio inputs and outputs in an attempt to thwart […] Read more »
Talk about doing anything to get ratings: Amanda Congdon turns in some truly shocking coverage from CES, where she decides to test-drive the perp end of a personal taser. As painful as it looks, it’s only about half as wrenching as watching Amanda’s attempts at pro-style […] Read more »
Liz asked folks to submit pictures and descriptions of their web-enabled TV set ups. And thanks to my new favorite NewTeeVee readers, we’ve got more solutions for getting NewTeeVee onto your OldTeeVee than you could ever actually want. And none of them require any Apple vaporware! […] Read more »
Amidst all the hubbub about Internet-based TV, the cable industry was relatively quiet, though not silent, at this week’s CES. On the DVR front, it looks like Comcast and TiVo have made nice, probably since potential Comcast DVR customers kept calling up asking for “that TiVo […] Read more »
Well, it’s still early, but I’ve done my level best to track down some video of the iPhone in action. There’s not much, but this clip from Google Video covers the process of making a phone call: Read more »
Doritos isn’t the only company bringing web video to the Superbowl. Due to GoDaddy and CBS, game coverage will feature the online video celebrities from Diggnation and a few 15-second YouTube clips. Yup, it’s the old-media big time (read: the big time). GoDaddy, the company that’s […] Read more »
Remember when everyone was all excited about user-generated content? Wasn’t that, like, last week? Oh wait, it was today, at CES. Well, nobody told Steve Jobs. His keynote introduction of a couple high-profile digital media devices today featured approximately zero non-pro content. Over at Moscone, it […] Read more »
LAS VEGAS, CES — CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’ keynote at CES managed to squeeze in more Web 2.0 buzz words, and viral videos references than I’ve heard all week — the Numa Numa kid, diet coke and mentos, Second Life, YouTube, wikis, avatars, mashups. Well, CBS […] Read more »
With a fleet of Macs running our business and a dedicated Machead at our helm, the GigaTeam definitely tunes in for MacWorld. Granted, we crack up when we walk by the elevated glass cases holding precious iPhone protoypes surrounded by crowds of worshipers (see photo below)…but […] Read more »
Photos by Niall Kennedy at Macworld 2007. Read more »
With all the hype surrounding BitTorrent, it’s easy to forget the other mainstream P2P network, Gnutella. While LimeWire still rules that roost, Phex should make a strong showing with their first major software update in a year and a half, version 3.0. The open-source Gnutella client […] Read more »
The big news today at Macworld was the Apple iPhone, but we also got the specs on the Apple TV (nee iTV), to be available next month. Jackson has already declared it “the leader of the pack.” The brick has 720p high def, a 40 GB […] Read more »
Now that orders are being taken for the Apple TV and everyone else has shown off their competing products at CES, it’s time to decide how to spend that money burning a hole in your pocket. Which wireless-enabled, high-definition set top box will soon be cluttering […] 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 — and also made […] Read more »
TiVo and Sonic Solutions have teamed up to offer TiVoTogo functionality through the new release of Roxio Toast — which you can purchase and download today. This means Mac users can now transfer and burn shows from their TiVo box onto iPods and DVDs. Some Mac […] Read more »
MediaZone, an enabler of subscription online television services for companies such as NBC Sports, is set to announce Tuesday it is beta-launching an ad-supported P2P streaming online television network. The idea is essentially cable-style television offered for free online. As opposed to on-demand efforts such as […] Read more »
Call this one of those annoying to-be-continued TV shows: While we don’t know what CBS will officially announce during Les Moonves’ keynote at CES Tuesday, we do know some of the people who will be joining him onstage as the big-eye network attempts to burnish itself […] Read more »
Update: Background information added. Heavy.com has received $20 million from Polaris Ventures in its fifth round of funding, the company formally announced today. paidContent broke the number last night. We had previously mentioned the round when PE Week discovered regulatory documents showing it was worth at […] Read more »
We’ve already covered the upcoming PC-to-TV box from Sling, a similar product from Linksys and over at GigaOm the new media devices from Netgear. Even Sony has joined the set-top sweepstakes. So even if the iTV is delayed, there are plenty of new ways to get […] Read more »
VeriSign has been active on the content delivery front following its announcement of a hybrid P2P-traditional CDN service based on its acquisition of Kontiki. VeriSign says via email it will be collaborating with Adobe for delivery of Flash video “including movies, TV shows, broadcast media and […] Read more »
Day by day, Steve Jobs is having a little more sizzle taken away from his upcoming iTV unveiling, with the latest being Netgear’s announcement of their own network-enabled TV appliance. On the one hand, it has an onerous HDMI port. On the other, it’s got a […] Read more »
Katie’s got the report from CES on Verizon’s Vcast Mobile TV over on GigaOM. She pokes a few holes in the initial presentation — an unclear but probably steep price point, fuzzy plans for incorporating user-generated content, and Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl’s admission that […] Read more »
Xeni Jardin spots ads placed by Google directly in their stream of the Charlie Rose show. I wonder where the money’s going, since Charlie Rose is aired on the Public Broadcasting Service. [BoingBoing] Speaking of Google and network broadcasters, Google has hired NBC Universal’s strategic ventures […] Read more »
Sling Media is scheduled to announce tonight SlingPlayer Mobile support for the Palm Treo 700p, the new smartphone currently offered by Sprint and Verizon. The company is also expected to show a technology demonstration of Slingbox running on Microsoft’s Vista, with some snazzy controls that take […] Read more »
Friday afternoon at Sling Media’s HQ in San Mateo, we got a look at a prototype for one of the first entrants in the bring-Internet-video-to-the-TV race: The SlingCatcher, a sort of Slingbox-in-reverse that should hit the retail shelves sometime this summer, priced at $200 or less. […] Read more »
Leaks of shows before they actually air is old-hat to file-sharing die hards but this one has undeniable mainstream appeal. The first four episodes of popular serial thriller 24 are now available at your local torrent index site. TorrentFreak says the AsiaTeam crew were responsible for […] Read more »
With Hitachi’s announcement of a one terabyte hard drive with a 3.5″ profile, I got to wondering if it’s not too late for the current ‘next generation’ of optical discs. By the time HD-DVD and BluRay have settled their format war, or learn to coexist, that […] Read more »
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