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Channel 4 Dumping 4oD In Favor Of All 4 | New Streaming Television Hub For UK Viewers

4oD has been a successful effort, with Channel 4 having offered on-demand television across a range of platforms for several years. But the...

Dave Parrack
Sep 12, 2014 1 min read

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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
Mar 12, 2008 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
Mar 11, 2008 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
Mar 9, 2008 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
Mar 8, 2008 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
Mar 8, 2008 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
Mar 7, 2008 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
Mar 6, 2008 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
Mar 5, 2008 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
Mar 4, 2008 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
Mar 3, 2008 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
Mar 2, 2008 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
Mar 1, 2008 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
Feb 29, 2008 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
Feb 28, 2008 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
Feb 27, 2008 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
Feb 26, 2008 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
Feb 25, 2008 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
Feb 24, 2008 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
Feb 23, 2008 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
Feb 22, 2008 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
Feb 21, 2008 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
Feb 19, 2008 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
Feb 19, 2008 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
Feb 18, 2008 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
Feb 17, 2008 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
Feb 15, 2008 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
Feb 13, 2008 1 min read

Yahoo! Confirms Rumoured Acquisition Of Online Video Platform Maven Networks

Yahoo! may be going through a rough patch at the moment (read understatement of the year), with Microsoft launching a hostile...

Dave Parrack
Feb 12, 2008 1 min read

SyncTV | Is It The Viable Alternative To Apple iTunes and Amazon Unbox That We Hoped?

The online television market is growing daily, and new companies are entering the fray regularly, some of which are copycats, and...

Michael Garrett
Feb 11, 2008 2 min read

Revver Hits Hard Times | Online Video Sharing Site For Sale – Copying YouTube Doesn’t Work

Revver is one of the video start ups which suddenly became well known when the success of market leader YouTube took...

Dave Parrack
Feb 10, 2008 1 min read

YouTube Unveils New Features For Content Creators | Studio App, Crowdfunding, 60fps YouTube would be nothing without content, and original content, no less. And the people who create that original content need as many tools at their disposal as possible. YouTube has delivered a new set... Read More