Sony Electronics today announced a first of its kind TV feature called BRAVIA Internet Video Link that will allow most of its new televisions to access free Internet video content, including high-definition, from providers including AOL, Yahoo! and Grouper, as well as Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony BMG Music.According to Stan Glasgow, president and chief […]

NetGear, a networking products provider, has introduced the Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000), a wireless networking router designed to bring the digital media to television sets. NetGear made its introduction a week before MacWorld Expo, where Apple is expected to introduce its own wireless media router, the “iTV”. NetGear’s digital media receiver offers lets high-definition televisions […]

PodZinger has announced that it is now indexing the audio content of YouTube videos, letting you search YouTube videos for spoken words or phrases. “YouTube has garnered a huge amount of press and interest over the past year. Its reputation as a grass roots online forum for sharing is cemented by it being the driving […]

The Jazz Video Podcast offers a swinging look at some of the giants of jazz. The podcast, created by Bret Primack, is formatted for video iPod and features performances and interviews with Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano, Billy Taylor, David Liebman and others. The podcast is designed to introduce new listeners to jazz and its artists. […]

10 Zen Monkeys has published their take on the 10 Worst Vlogs of 2006. While we don’t agree with all their choices, it would be hard to beat their #1 pick – the accurately named Dogs Barking in Cars vlog. “Behold the future of multimedia,” writes 10 Zen Monkey’s Lou Cabron. “It‚Äôs a terrible idea […]

Added to Podcast software index: Alligator lets PSP users check and download the newest podcast content using iTunes and RSS feeds. Alligator is RSS aggregation software for video and audio podcasting on the Sony PSP. Alligator also enables playback of many digital video and audio file types on the PSP, including MP3/MOV/MP4/WMA/WMV. With Alligator for […]

John Edwards plans to announce his presidential intentions to the world today in New Orleans. But today’s news is old news to fans of podcasts. Edwards recently announced his intentions in the John Edwards audio podcast. Listen carefully, and you’ll hear Podcast411’s Rob Walch doing the intro. Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron has also posted a video […]

PC World has released its list of The Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006. Rocketboom made the list for its controversial handling of Amanda Congdon’s exit: She was the first star of the video blogging revolution. But last July, Rocketboom.com’s quirky-yet-perky Amanda Congdon parted ways with co-boomer Andrew Baron. The reasons behind the breakup were […]

Podtech’s Robert Scoble is on his way to New Orleans to cover John Edward’s Thursday announcement that he will be running for President. The Edwards event is significant, not only for Edward’s announcement, but for Edward’s understanding of the increasing importance of Internet media. Edwards is arguably the most Net-savvy of likely candidates. He has […]

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Chairman of HDNet, thinks that HDTV is a Internet video killer: HDTV is the Internet video killer. Deal with it. Internet bandwidth to the home places a cap on the quality and simplicity of video delivery to the home, and to HDTVs in particular. Not only does internet capacity create an issue, […]