The New York Times reports that fewer people are watching the new Fall TV series, possibly due to all the video available online, including full TV episodes (both at station sites and through illegal torrent sites). This is likely compounded by the fact that a few of the better ones have not come out yet, […]

Teri Hatcher Too Old For TV?
BuddyTV asks that question, based on the fact that 42 yr old Teri Hatcher herself has said that. Her Desperate Housewives schedule requires her to sometimes work 14-hr days several days in a row. Being a single mom to an eight-year old surely makes her life even more hectic. Hatcher […]

VideoJug is a streaming video site like YouTube and loads of others, but they’ve focused on how-to videos. I just watched a fun video on juggling three balls. (I used to teach people to juggle, so it’s always a treat seeing stuff like this.) Now in addition to the video tutorial, there’s also a text […]

Russell Shaw weighs in on Fox TV’s new ad-supported full-length, high quality videos of eight popuarl TV shows. Odd thing, but I only watch two of these eight, including my fave Bones, but now that it’s online, I might watch Til Death as well. Problem is, the Full Throttle media player plays in a web […]

While one report indicates that YouTube is third in streaming videos served, behind Yahoo and MySpace, the Wall Street Journal says that Google is discussing buyout talks with YouTube. Offering price is around US$1.6B. [via CRN] Russell Shaw talks about why he isn’t surprised, and points to an early article discussing which six companies are […]

PureVideo.com is a search portal for online video content from numerous sites. It searches through the meta information that videos are usually tagged with, but it’s not particularly intelligent. I searched for dead rockstar Marc Bolan, and it found one video, even though I know there are several at YouTube alone. (The video was at […]

Ted Wallingford at Signal to Noise points to a Mac Rumours forum thread that says Apple’s new wireless iTV IPTV device, announced earlier this month at an Apple press conference in San Francisco, might incorporate the new, faster “N” (802.11n) wireless specification. That means a full-length movie could be transmitted to an iTV (TV over […]

While TV and Apple Mac junkies are salivating over the recently announced Apple iTV IPTV device, Snappy Multimedia’s HAVA seems to hvae gone quietly unnoticed. At least, this is the first I’ve heard of them. Of course, they are kind of the opposite of iTV. Instead of your downloaded video content being streamed wirelessly from […]

Okay, maybe I’m not as much of a TV junkie as a I thought. I certainly don’t have a TiVo, and certainly not the big TiVo Series3 unit (US$800, or $1,000 with transferred lifetime subscription) that’s pictured over at Engadget. Apparently, though, there are some problems with using TiVos with plasma TVs. It has something […]

YouTube isn’t the first web video streaming service and they won’t be the last. But they are arguably one of the most popular. They’re streaming 100 million videos per month (or is that per day?); I don’t think anyone else has reached this level. But new contenders include Microsoft’s Soapbox [Silicon.com]. According to the Silicon.com […]

Good news for some people, I guess, but the chair of the US FCC, Kevin J. Martin, says that there is no need to regulate [Teleclick.ca] online video services such as YouTube. I guess he hasn’t seen some of the other video channels. (Anyone know where the uncut version of Janet Jackson on the Superbowl […]

Apple only announced their iTunes movie download service last week, but they’ve already pulled in US$1M in sales [CIO]. And that’s despite the limited number of studios (all financially related to Disney) and films (75). Then again, at the current download prices, that’s only 125,000 downloads/ sales. Not exactly record-breaking numbers. However, they are limited […]

Wagering on the possibility that TV over Wi-Fi will be profitable, Wi-Fi TV Inc. is spending a million on advertising at online job boards. They’re looking for a sales team [Market Wire] across the United States. Their website offers 300 channels of live TV programming, as well as free VoIP (Voice over Internet Calling) calling. […]

Due to licensing issues and fears of piracy, Asian countries will not get to use [Antara News] the new iTunes movie download service that Apple revealed yesterday, amongst other announcements of new iPods and the iTV PC-to-TV video streaming device. Asia in general is supposedly a fast-growing consumer of digital content.
The iTunes movie download service […]

Om Malik speculates on Rupert Murdoch’s idea about using WiMax for broadcasting video content. Murdoch doesn’t think it’ll work, but there are already companies doing it. Sort of. TV-over-WiMax? Well why not? If Apple’s new wireless-streaming iTV device isn’t already proof of the possibilties, then I don’t know what is. WiMax wireless networks haven’t been […]

Actually, CNBC TV just showed some clips of the device. It has a three-inch screen, 30 Gb of space and integrated wireless capability. In fact, they also showed a clip demonstrating two Zunes communicating, with one transmitting songs to the other. Toshiba will also manufacture the device under the name Pyxis.
There was little use of […]

CNBC TV had clips tonight of the new iTV device from Apple. With it, you can stream video content from the Internet to your TV. What I saw showed RCA jacks, but earlier news said that you can stream IPTV content wirelessly. Apple also started selling movies as of today, at US$9.99 per copy.
The problem […]

Vietnam will be getting DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast - Handheld) mobile TV services thanks to a joint deal [Cellular News] between Nokia and Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC). Nokia’s also working with Motorola to ensure that their DVB-H devices and services are interoperable. They will be working on solutions based on the open DVB-IPDC (presumably DVB […]

It’s official. Apple just announced in San Francisco today that they have an adapter which will let people transmit content from the Internet, via their computer, directly to their TV sets. And as I was wishing yesterday, the PC-to-TV converter is not specific to Apple Mac computers. Hurrah!! Something like this will revolutionize IPTV, and […]

Tomorrow (Sep 12), Apple has a big press conference in San Francisco and everyone’s speculating as to what’s going to be announced. Will it be the purported iPod phone (iPhone)? Or has Apple connected TVs and PCs together? Or will it be related to mobile TV?
Given that Apple is selling movies online, having an easy […]