SanDisk Corporation today announced the U.S. availability of the Sansa TakeTV video player, a sneakernet alternative to Apple TV. According to SanDisk’s Daniel Schreiber, the TakeTV has “No confusing wireless network set-up, no wires running across the living room and no cumbersome burning of DVDs. Just use the Sansa TakeTV device to move your favorite […]

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available. The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video. According to reports, NBC […]

A new site, TheFunRide lets you search for videos across YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, Daily Motion and 70+ other video sharing sites. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do it very well yet. We searched for a variety of popular video search terms, with terrible results: Pamela Anderson – this search returned lots of skateboarding videos, but no […]

BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad-management systems, has unveiled a new platform for dynamic advertising across broadband, video-on-demand (VOD) and digital video recorder (DVR) environments. The BlackArrow system is designed to manage, deliver and measure targeted advertising for video, enabling content providers, advertising agencies and distributors to reach on-demand video viewers. Reaching on-demand viewers over […]

PoliceOne.com today announced that it has launched BLUtube, the first online video community for police officers and departments nationwide. The site is like YouTube for police. BLUtube offers members of the law enforcement community a secure environment in which to view and upload videos. BLUtube includes law enforcement-only sections with video tips, roll call training […]

Al Gore’s two year-old cable channel, Current, relaunched its website on Monday to better incorporate user generated content and better target an 18-34 demographic. The updated site supports all the major “Web 2.0” bells and whistles, including photo and video sharing, comments and discussion forums on upcoming stories. The site also now appears to be […]

Video search engine Truveo announced today that it is working with European video company Kewego to extend the reach of Truveo‚Äôs video search engine to hundreds of European major-brand video producers. ‚ÄúIn the past 12 months there has been an explosion of professional video on the Web,‚Äù said Timothy Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder of Truveo […]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011: The massive adoption of portable video players, with over […]

Podcasting network PodShow today announced PodShowTV, a new service designed to let you access the network’s content on PCs, mobile devices and, in the near future, through advanced digital set-top boxes, Net-connected DVRs and IPTV. The service will feature PodShow content, but also provide a platform for users to interact and publish content. In effect, […]

Today at DigitalLife, Microsoft made two announcements that raise the stakes in the competition to bring Internet television to the world. In doing so, Microsoft threatens to further marginalize Apple TV and even sideline indie video podcasters. Microsoft’s first announcement was to unveil Extenders for Microsoft Windows Media Center. These horribly named devices, which are […]