Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its video offerings through the Zune Marketplace. Here’s a list of what’s coming.

Japanese electronics and telecommunications companes are developing a Linux-based TV-killer which will let users watch streaming video and browse the web using a remote.

The TV Portal Service Corp syndicate, made up of Sony, Matsushita (Panasonic), Sharp, Hitachi and Toshiba, is expected to announce a new tech standard for Internet television as early as next month.

The LA Times, of all places, says that broadcasting is dead: Broadcasting, simply put, isn’t casting broadly anymore. As the sweep suggests, the TV networks are losing not just their viewers but also their sense of specialness. They’re becoming just the lowest numbers on the multichannel dial, rather than the last outposts of mass culture. […]

The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid […]

The long tail of cinema is coming soon to Internet television, according to New York Times article. It looks at Cinetic Media, a company that is working on distributing indie films via the Internet: John Sloss is one of the top sales agents for independent films. Mr. Sloss, 52, has handled the sale of such […]

Senator Joe Lieberman Monday called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from YouTube. “Islamist terrorist organizations use YouTube to disseminate their propaganda, enlist followers, and provide weapons training,” said the Senator said in his letter. “YouTube also, unwittingly, permits Islamist terrorist groups to maintain an active, pervasive, and […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon gets profiled in the New York Times, and somehow the NYT doesn’t even cough up a link to her new video blog, Sometimes Daily. “It’s weird,” says Congdon. The Times article also seems fairly dismissive of everything that Congdon has done: Ms. Congdon, 26, became the closest thing to an […]

It looks like mainstream broadcasters will have to come to terms with YouTube, video podcasts and other Internet media or they’ll face the same fate as newspapers. TVWeek reports that this year’s May television ratings sweeps are a debacle: Low ratings during the February sweeps may have been a fluke due to the writers strike, […]

Beet.tv‘s Andy Plesser reports that the co-producers of lonelygirl15, Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding for their new company, EQAL. They’re building a digital media studio and working on product placement and licensing deals. “We’re going to teach Hollywood how to do it right,” said Beckett.

HP today announced that it is making the video content of YouTube available through its MediaSmart “smart television” products, including the upcoming MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver and the high-definition MediaSmart TV. HP joins Apple and others in a growing field of companies trying to make viewing Internet media on your television as easy as […]