The Yahoo! Video Blog has announced a variety of updates to the Yahoo! Video site. Here‚Äôs what‚Äôs new: Widescreen videos: Yahoo! Video supports a 16:9 cinematastic player that‚Äôs far ahead of what most sites are offering. And the video looks great. More content: Yahoo! Video now aggregates the whole spectrum of video found throughout Yahoo!, […]

People working in new media are starting to try out the Apple TV update, and most are giving it rave reviews. We published an in-depth Apple TV review and walkthrough yesterday, and gave Apple TV 2 a “B”. We like the new movie features, but the podcast support is confusing and makes it hard to […]

U.S. Internet users watched Internet video a record times in December, according to the latest figures from comScore. comScore speculates that some of the increase in viewing of Internet video can be attributed to stale television content as a result of the Writer’s strike. Research Highlights: U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos […]

Apple today announced that MacBook Air is now shipping. Apple also announced that the new Apple TV software update, which lets you rent high definition movies directly from your widescreen TV, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available in another week or two. The update to Apple TV […]

According to research from Accustream, user generated video (UGV) – things like video podcasts, vlogs and YouTube videos – scored 22 billion views in 2007. That’s a 70% increase over 2006. People’s attention is moving to online video fast, limited mainly by bandwidth and the availability of content. Other research highlights: Long tail videos getting […]

CNBC has an interesting interview with Steve Jobs, in which he confirms our take away from his MacWorld announcements: Apple is killing off the DVD: Don’t underestimate the power of the new iTunes movie rental service either. I asked Jobs whether this meant the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD was over, with Apple the […]

Revision3, the video podcasting network launched by the guys from Digg, has introduced a new weekly show, The Digg Reel, that offers 15-minutes of highlights from the highest-rated videos on Digg for that week. “There’s so much crap out there, it’s great to have the Digg community filter out the best, but no one can […]

Apple today announced iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including: 20th Century Fox The Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros. Paramount Universal Studios Home Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Lionsgate New Line Cinema Users can rent movies for as low as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, […]

VideoEgg, a video advertising network for online communities, today announced three new partnerships to expand its distribution of invitation-based video advertising. VideoEgg‚Äôs partnership with imeem, Metacafe, and Buzznet increases the ad network’s reach by more than 50 million unique users.‚ÄúThese sites are the new MTV‚Äôs,‚Äù said Matt Sanchez, CEO of VideoEgg. ‚ÄúBrands need to find […]

DRM’d music is dead. DRM’d video will be next. As CD sales plummet, the record labels have realized that they have to get with the 21st century. They have to have a place on your iPod, if they expect you to listen to them, and they have to get rid of DRM if they want […]