So I’m putting Shows About Craigslist into the Online Video Vault of Overdoneness. The only reason I feel comfortable calling it a day on this genre, though, is that the reality series Craigslist TV might be as good as it’s going to get. Read More »
Monsoon Multimedia is soon coming to market with a new box called the Vulkano that incorporates place-shifting, time-shifting, web video and personal media sharing all in a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple devices to watch video whenever and wherever users want to. Read More »
Consumers can now rent Blu-ray discs at more than 13,000 Redbox kiosks around the country. They’ll have to pay a premium to watch their rentals in high-def, however; Blu-ray discs cost $1.50 a pop, as opposed to the $1 per night that Redbox is famous for. Read More »
Logitech CEO Jerry Quindlen thinks that Google TV will be hugely profitable for his company – he just doesn’t expect much of that money to come from Logitech’s Revue set-top box. In fact, Logitech plans to invest all its initial Google TV profits back into marketing. Read More »
Today on the Net: Akamai has a new president, Swisscom uses your Facebook friends in a personalized movie trailer, local libraries loan more DVDs each day than Netflix, YouTube is playing with a new playlist bar, and more. Read More »
Attention all blabbermouths — on its blog today, YouTube announced that all of its users can now upload video files that are up to 15 minutes long. That’s 50 percent longer than the site’s previous (and long-running) limit of 10 minutes for non-partner videos. Read More »
This week’s GUADEC conference in The Hague is the first event ever to be live streamed in the new open source WebM video codec. The livestream is hosted by Flumotion, and the company’s CTO Thomas Vander Stichele believes that WebM could become mainstream soon. Read More »
Sometimes people ask when online video is going to get its Lost — a creative, well-produced, buzzworthy series that offers enough intrigue to keep audiences engaged. I’ve heard some people answer that question with “Never.” But that was before Ark premiered on Hulu. Read More »
There have been rumors this week that Apple is working with TiVo to bring DVR functionality to the next generation of its Apple TV. A cooperation like this seems highly unlikely, but Apple’s app strategy could open the door for a TiVo presence on the device. Read More »
A local Russian court in in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has banned YouTube as well as four other sites, ruling that local ISP Rosnet could block users from accessing the site due to extremist videos that had been uploaded by some of its users. Read More »
