This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model: Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes […]

NBC has announced a new service, NBC Direct, which will let you download and view NBC’s primetime and late-night programming to Windows PCs to watch for up to a week after the shows are broadcast. The service, which will begin beta testing in October, promises to let you download full-length episodes of Heroes, The Office, […]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Saturday, Sept. 15th: TorrentFreak has an expos√© on Media Defender, publishing internal emails that appear to show how the company created a website and leaked copyrighted content to entrap people into infringement. According to TorrentFreak, “The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading […]

NBC’s and Apple’s negotiations over terms for digital video download sales has turned into a PR war. Apple announced earlier in the week that it would no longer be carrying NBC shows for download, because of failure to reach an agreement over terms. According to Apple, NBC wanted to double its wholesale pricing for shows. […]

Apple today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season at the iTunes Store. According to Apple, the move is a result of disagreements over per episode pricing, which NBC wanted to increase from $1.99 to $4.99. “We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would […]

A&P has unceremoniously sacked brothers Mark and Matthew D’Avella for using the company facilities to film a faux-gangsta rap video, Produce Paradise. The brothers, aka Double D and Razor Blade, made the video of themselves performing as the Fresh Beets. Here’s why Double D calls himself “the Vanilla Ice of our generation”: The brothers were […]

Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of Internet content delivery services, has announced that it is offering services to help customers deliver the HD Web. Akamai’s content delivery network works by distributing requests for files over a worldwide network of servers. That way, when you click on a link to play an Akamai-hosted video, you get […]

Digg announced an update today that puts viral videos front and center on the site’s home page. “We’ve gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page,” said Digg’s¬†Daniel Burka. ¬†”We‚Äôve gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people […]

The Guardian Unlimited has an interview with Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the Internet, about the future of television. While mainstream television networks may have some trouble seeing and adapting to where things are going,¬†the 64-year old Cerf expects television to change rapidly, as it approaches its “ipod moment”. “85% of all video we […]

The Hollywood Reporter has an article today looking¬†at the¬†baby steps that major networks are taking towards putting their new shows on the Internet.¬†All the networks except ABC are putting out at least some of their pilots on the Web, while ABC is limiting sampling opportunities to large screening events: NBC is offering downloads of the […]