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With YouTube Growing Fast, How On-Demand Transcoding Helps New Media Storage

On the digital media website Contentinople yesterday, Frank Smith talked about a comment that Philip Inghelbrecht of video sharing site YouTube made...
Brendon Mills
1 min read

After Hulu Has Launched – How Many People Are Actually Switching Over To Web TV?

Hulu eventually launched on Wednesday to an almost equal amount of hype and cynicism. While some people, such as former CEO of...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
2 min read

Exploring Hulu In Full | Out Of Beta And Officially Launched But Is It Any Good?

Hulu officially launched on Wednesday after an extended and very successful period in beta.  Hulu is a joint venture between NBC...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read

YouTube Expands Developer Tools & APIs To Allow External Websites To Interact

For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ghost’ Video Hosting Network Venture Gains Investment Support

Steven Spielberg may be best known around the world as a movie director and film mogul, but he is also a...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

Peer To Peer CAN Be Used For Piracy, So Ban It Outright | Or, Simply Lose Your Identity

When it comes to the subject of peer to peer and file sharing over the Internet, there seems to be a...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

How iPhone and YouTube Have Impacted Mobile Users | Frost & Sullivan Interview Part 2

Transcoding on demand for mobile video is starting to play an important part in the growth of online video as the...
Brendon Mills
35 sec read

MobiTV Channels Completely Unsecured | Site Threatens HowardForums For Posting URL

In a move which furthers the debate as to what constitutes content stealing, MobiTV has threatened to take legal action against...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Watching Web TV While At Work | Businesses Cracking Down On Employees Surfing YouTube

The growing popularity of Internet television isn’t good news for everyone, as businesses are finding to their cost, with falling productivity...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

NBC Universal Argue That ISPs Blocking File Sharing BitTorrent Traffic Is Justified

It’s a well known fact that some Internet users share files illegally. But does that justify ISPs around the world bringing...
Alex Curtis
2 min read

Testing The Sansa Take TV System & Fanfare TV Portal | Content & Ease Of Use To Succeed?

Last October, Sandisk launched Sansa Take TV, a current solution for moving video content from your computer to your large screen....
Gilbert Hammer
39 sec read

Pitchfork To Launch Music Web TV Station | Enough Interest To Pay For Video Bandwidth?

The independent music website Pitchfork has today announced the launch of Pitchfork.tv, a new Web TV station which they hope will...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YourTrumanShow VideoMap Widget Arrives On Facebook | MySpace & Mobile To Follow

YourTrumanShow is a video blogging initiative which allows ordinary people like you and me distribute great stories via video diaries. In...
Leslie Poston
2 min read

How BitTorrent Can Successfully Work As A Distribution Tool For A Public Broadcaster

NRK recently took part in a very successful experiment with distributing the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation programme, Nordkalotten 365, via BitTorrent. A little while...
Eirik Solheim
3 min read

Quarterlife Dumped By NBC – New Web Show From Family Guy’s Seth McFarlane On Way

It’s now been confirmed that after poor ratings for the first episode of Quarterlife, screened on NBC last Thursday night, the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Discussing The Future Transcoding Market | Interview With Frost & Sullivan Part 1

Transcoding on demand, especially when it comes to mobile video, is going to play an important part in the growth of...
Brendon Mills
48 sec read

Could YouTube Being Taken Down By Pakistan So Easily Be A Sign Of Things To Come?

Earlier this week, YouTube suffered an outage which lasted for almost two hours, a serious amount of time for the second...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Quarterlife Makes TV Debut On NBC – Poor Ratings For First Episode Of MySpace TV Series

Quarterlife made its network television début last night, and unfortunately for NBC and show creators Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz it...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Blu-Ray Has Won The High Definition Format War But Aren’t Direct Downloads The Future?

The last year has seen a bitter war raging between manufacturers, movie studios and retailers over what would become the high...
Gigi Sohn
2 min read

YouTube Experiences Worldwide Outage Due To Pakistan Government Block Attempt

YouTube experienced an outage lasting almost two hours last night after an attempt by the Pakistani government to block access to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

How On Demand Video Transcoding Enables More Personalised Advertising Opportunities

The business of online television and video is growing at a incredibly fast rate, and as well as user created and free...
Brendon Mills
34 sec read

CBS Join NBC & News Corp. By Putting Classic Television Online | Inc. MacGyver & Star Trek

The growth of the Internet as a viable place to watch television and videos is fully in evidence today, as another...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

AskMrVideo Review | How To Profit With Web Video – Business Tips & FAQs At Your Fingertips

Video is becoming a key ingredient on the Internet, whether it’s by way of user created content on sites such as...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

ScreenFlow Screencasting Application Review | Mac Screencasting App Is Best Video Tool Yet

ScreenFlow is here! And as you’ll see from the following review of it, I’m quite pleased that it has finally arrived....
Michael Pick
2 min read

TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4

An advertising funded broadband service which only launched fully at the beginning of January, has already been forced to suspend its...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

CNN Launch iReport.com | Your Stories, Your Videos – A Site For All Citizen Journalists

Although CNN moved in to the world of citizen journalism over 18 months ago with iReport, most of the submissions made by users never...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
8 sec read

The War Against Illegal File Sharers | Higher Education Bill With File Sharing Warning

The fight against file sharers, and so called music and movie pirates continues, even though the organisations fighting it must know...
Art Brodsky
2 min read

How To Connect A Projector To Your PC Or Laptop To Watch High Definition Online Video

Internet television is growing at a phenomenal rate, with services such as Joost, Hulu and Stage6 all providing more reasons than...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

Yahoo! Video Relaunches | Higher Resolution Widescreen Videos But What Else Is On Offer?

Yahoo! currently seems to be on a mission to take over the world of online video, despite facing the immediate threat...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

The Barack Obama ‘Yes We Can’ Video | Showing How Fast Online Media Travels

It’s fascinating how certain videos can explode on to the Internet, and then make their way around various media. From emails...
Mathew Ingram
1 min read