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, […]

The very first movie I ever paid money to see (in a theatre) was Star Wars. I’ve watched it on TV for free dozens of times since. Not as many as some people, who’ve seen it literally hundreds of times, but a lot. So I’m definitely one of those that have been hoping for some […]

Vincent D’onofrio, who plays quite possibly my all time fave TV cop, Detective Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, wants to pursue additional film roles and direct as well, so he’s giving up his badge. I don’t know if he’s a method actor, but something tells me he is, considering he says he wants […]

Nicole Richie, daughter of former Commodore  and singer Lionel Richie, and one half of the dumbest pair of actors ever to have their own TV show (The Simple Life) had a collapse - possibly due to anorexia. Richie and Paris Hilton are proof that you can be stupid, insensitive and utterly untalented but get a […]

Zudeo is a new video download site similar to YouTube, but with some important differences. Zudeo is powered by the Azureus 3.0 peer-to-peer torrent client. That means to view the high-res videos they offer (thanks to various publishers), you have to download and install a client.
Unfortunately, the install process wanted to install a Java .JAR […]

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 […]

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 […]

I found this clip at ManiaTV, which is like YouTube and other IPTV websites. If you’re a fan of Smallville, you’ll probably like this fan clip of film that’ll never be shot: Superman and Batman together, fighting Lex Luthor, Two-face and others.
Unfortunately, the ManiaTV code won’t embed properly in at least two web browsers I […]

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 […]

Before the Internet became public, someone declared that in the future, there’d be a million channels of TV. We’re not there yet, but reality seems to be leaning towards the prophecy. With video cameras generally affordable and websites like YouTube and others which let you upload your videos, the viewer has become the producer [Reuters].
YouTube […]