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, […]

Google’s problem with YouTube is even bigger than many thought. More than 97% of YouTube’s videos are deadweight – videos that the company can’t put ads on. According to Silicon Alley Insider’s Michael Learmonth: We know Google’s (GOOG) YouTube is a tough sell for advertisers. But video site’s sales team may be having an even […]

NBC has announced that it will be using Internet video as a sort of minor league training grown for late-night television. It’s announced that Jimmy Fallon will be the Late Night replacement for Conan O’Brien when Mr. O’Brien takes over the Tonight show next year. Lorne Michaels, Executive Producer for Late Night said that he […]

There’s been a lot of discussion today about the Roku Netflix Player, focusing on the idea that Roku could its cheap Player to establish a foothold in people’s living rooms, and then add additional services to establish itself as a major Internet television solution. According to a Forbes report, “Later this year, a simple software […]

Cynical Peak’s Rivet is a Mac OS X app that lets you access your iTunes media on your Xbox 360. In a nutshell, it turns your XBox 360 into Apple TV Jr. You can browse, play, and view your pictures, movies, and video through the Xbox 360’s media blade. Rivet will automatically load and give […]

Google Media Server, a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google services and your TV, was greeted with yawns upon its release yesterday. The free software is designed to let you access media files, such as videos, music, Picasa Web albums & YouTube videos, via your TV. Sort of like a poor-man’s […]

Internet video service TubeMogul reports that viewing for Internet videos tends to peak early and drop quickly – suggesting that the long tail of Internet video has a short shelf life. They found that most videos get a quarter of their views within 4 days and half their views within just two weeks: In other […]

comScore today released April 2008 data from its comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube accounting for more than 4 billion of that total. Other highlights: 71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video. The average online video viewer watched […]

Mark Cuban has a must-read post over at Blog Maverick looking at Internet television service Hulu and Google‘s struggle to make its investment in YouTube pay off. Cuban argues that Google made a billion-dollar mistake buying YouTube, and that Hulu is “kicking YouTube’s ass”. It’s an interesting comparison, and one that may provide some insight […]

NewTeeVee has introduced a new site and video podcast, NewTeeVee Station, that offers their take on the best in Internet television. According to Om Malik’s announcement, the site: Features editorial reviews of online videos written by a team lead by Liz Shannon Miller, who comes to us from Variety and the Daily Reel. Has over […]