Boxee has announced an update which adds Hulu support to the open source social media center: our forums, twitter and inbox are filled with messages such as “now if I could only play Hulu on boxee..”, “give me Hulu!”, or my personal favorite “if you somehow figured out how to make Hulu work… I will kiss […]

This is an unsubstantiated rumor – but at least it’s an interesting one.  CNet’s Nate Lanxon reports, via Jason Calacanis, that Apple is working on a networked television. The rumored Apple Television will be fully networked LCD HDTVs, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In a nutshell,the Apple Television […]

Apple today announced some minor updates to Apple TV: Feature How To HD TV shows Purchase the leading HD TV shows directly from the iTunes Store. (US only) Movie browsing by actor and director Browse movies on the iTunes store by actor and director. Select “More” on the movie page and browse the actor and […]

Want to know why Steve Jobs is still calling Apple TV his “hobby”? New research by The NPD Group offers an explanation: 41 percent of dollars budgeted for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases; 11 percent for purchases of TV programs on DVD; 29 percent on DVD rentals including Netflix and other […]

Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer today is challenging Apple to move Apple TV from being a “hobby” to being a real business: If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room’s “digital hub,” then Apple TV needs a serious overhaul, ASAP. Why now? Because even though the industry is still […]

A new version of aTV Flash, a $49.95 software upgrade to enhance the functionality of your Apple TV, has been released that’s compatible with the version 2.1 of Apple TV firmware. aTV Flash adds support for more video formats, USB external hard drives & web browsing. Key Features: Play most video formats (DivX, Xvid, AVI, […]

MG Siegler at Parislemon has an interesting take on the current state of movie rentals on the�XBox 360, suggesting that it’s not ready for prime time: Last night I sat down to download The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I figured it would take 5-10 minutes to get enough information to start playing and then […]

There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items: Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from. TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected […]

MIcrosoft has announced XBox 360 updates that will give interface a cartoon-like appearance and a deal with Netflix that positions the XBox as an Apple TV killer. “When people turn on their Xbox 360s this fall, they’ll get an entirely new interface and Dashboard, an entirely new Xbox through the magic of software,” said John […]

Apple’s nice, but limited, Apple TV is the device to beat in the Internet TV space, and the contenders keep on coming. Kodak has introduced Theatre HD Player, a WiFi-enabled black box that connects to your HDTV, displays images and other multimedia content, and links directly to Kodak Gallery, the company’s online photo-sharing service. This […]