The latest news and developments in the Internet Television and IPTV industry

News

BBTV From Blinkx | Internet TV To Rival Joost

Joost may be the biggest and best known service for providing video on demand, but the amount of challengers to its...
Dave Parrack
55 sec read

AOL & YouTube Partnering on Video Search?

Take a look at the screenshot above of what I just found on the AOL Video Portal. That’s right! That is...
Chris Tew
39 sec read

PeekVid Movies & TV Shows Sued! No Alternative for Illegal Television Episodes Site

Peekvid got shut down. Was the MPAA involved…? Click here to Search for TV Shows & Movies Online Peekvid is a...
Chris Tew
4 min read

Desktop Video Editors Vs. Online Video Editors | The Low Down

In the past year a number of online video editing websites have popped up promising to offer a quick, fun and...
Alx Klive
3 min read

MySpaceTV Announced | The Video Sharing Site to Overthrow YouTube?

NewsCorp owned MySpace yesterday announced the launch of MySpaceTV, a new dedicated MySpace branded competitor to YouTube. The new MySpace video...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

2008 Summer Olympics to be Broadcast Online by NBC

Coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics will now be available on TV, online and on handheld portable devices. NBC plans to...
Chris Tew
1 min read

EnjoyMyMedia | Placeshift Your Media to Share with Friends

EnjoyMyMedia today announced the release of its beta Private Netcasting™ system, which enables users to broadcast digital multimedia—photos, videos, audio, documents...
Kevin Groppe
31 sec read

The Future of Broadcast Media | Accenture’s Media Content Survey 2007 (Research Paper)

I’ve become a regular reader of the free IPTV and broadcast media research publications that the research group Accenture publish. The...
Chris Tew
1 min read

Fox Partners with Brightcove to Provide Web TV

Fox Entertainment Group has announced a partnership with Brightcove to launch internet video channels of all Fox broadcast and cable content,...
Kevin Groppe
28 sec read

Joost Advertisers Want Copyright Assurances

Joost has reached advertising agreements with over 36 companies, with many insisting that they will only have advertisements placed next to...
Kevin Groppe
31 sec read

CamTwist | Live Internet Video Feed Tools for Macs – Webcam Enhancer and Video Overlay Mixer

The next step in the video sharing and user generated content revolution is live video broadcasting. We’ve previously looked at four...
Michael Pick
7 min read

SlingLink Powerline Ethernet Adapters Announced for Slingbox

Sling Media, Inc., our favorite placeshifting company, has announced today the addition of the SlingLink™ TURBO 1 Port and SlingLink TURBO...
Kevin Groppe
38 sec read

Democracy Player | HD Arrives As 200 Channels Are Added

The Democracy Player, essentially an RSS video feed aggregator with a slick interface, is busy adding available channels, including a lot...
Kevin Groppe
34 sec read

YouTube Remixer | Video Editing Made Easy

YouTube has announced Remixer, a free online video editing tool based on Adobe’s Premiere Express. Remixer lets you assemble videos in...
Kevin Groppe
35 sec read

Chime TV | Making A TV Channel Experience from Video Clips

Aggregating video clips from sites like YouTube and MetaCafe to create “TV Channels” seems to be all the rage this year....
Chris Tew
33 sec read

U.S. Presidential Debates | CNN and YouTube Partnership Overrated

Next month, CNN is hosting a Democratic Party debate in which questions for the Presidential candidates will be asked via YouTube...
Kevin Groppe
31 sec read

BabelGum | Internet TV Start-Up to Contend With Joost

When YouTube started blazing onto everyone’s PCs bringing a new world of amateur content and entertaining clips we began to see...
Michael Pick
6 min read

Claim Your Content | YouTube Anti Piracy Measure Coming Soon

Back in April we heard from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google — parent company of YouTube, that YouTube will be...
Chris Tew
26 sec read

.tv Domains Growing Fast | Verisign Reports .tv is the Fastest Growing Web Domain

Everywhere I turn now I see an advertisement for a website with a .tv domain extension. On the radio I hear...
Kevin Groppe
33 sec read

Chinese YouTube on the Cards | Censorship Issues?

Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube, attended an internet forum in Taipei, Taiwan last week. There he announced that a Chinese...
Chris Tew
56 sec read

Amazon Rumored to Acquire Netflix And Merge Video Download Services

The latest company acquisition rumor to hit the internet, according to Businessweek, is the potential purchase of Netflix by Amazon. As...
Kevin Groppe
31 sec read

FCC Out of Touch With Internet TV

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been told by the United States Court of Appeals that it may not have the...
Gilbert Hammer
1 min read

Joost on Set Top Boxes? – SlingBox? Apple TV? AT&T Homezone? TiVo? Who?

Looking at the Joost interface it will be obvious to many that this is something that you could imagine on your...
Chris Tew
3 min read

Clip+Sling | NHL and SlingMedia Want You to Share Video Clips Online

Last week Major League Baseball was in the news complaining about the Slingbox from SlingMedia. This week the National Hockey League...
Kevin Groppe
15 sec read

Diet Coke & Mentos | Eepybird Makes History with Webby Viral Video Award

Are you one of the millions of people to have seen one of the many Diet Coke and Mentos experiments from...
Chris Tew
1 min read

VideoJug and Expert Village | “How To” Video Sites with Differing Models For Content Producers

I have previously outlined 3 video sites that specialize in “How-To” type educational videos. Of these 3 there are two which...
Gilbert Hammer
2 min read