Netflix today said that it has reached a deal with TiVo to provide digital movie streaming to many of the 800,000 broadband-connected Tivo subscribers. The companies are testing the new service in several thousand U.S. households and expect it to be broadly available in early December. Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” Web streaming service, with a library of more […]

Amazon’s Internet Movie Database announced today that it had added over 6,000 videos to the site, transforming it from a encyclopedia into a formidable video destination site.

That’s a lot of videos – but it’s just the start of IMDb’s plan to offer all the movies and television shows in the world online for free.

Flixwagon has announced that it has an alpha version of a new iPhone live streaming applications available for testing on “jailbroken” iPhones. Features: Express Sign-up on the fly: simply enter your phone number and you’ll be instantly logged-in. You’ll also receive a text message with your new user name and password (which you can change […]

Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago. Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May. Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 […]

Tim Street, creator of the video podcast French Maid TV, is live-streaming a French Maid TV shoot, via UStream. (Note: the embed has been updated to point to video from the streaming event. ) French Maid TV was an early breakout hit among video podcasts, each episode a 5 – 10 minute “how to” lesson, […]

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release of its Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics Definitions. The objective for the new document is to standardize the definitions of the most commonly used streaming advertising formats. The document focuses on: Linear Video Ad With or Without Companion Ad Linear Video Interactive Ad Non-linear Overlay Ad […]

Disney announced today that for the first time, the company will stream its full-length movies online. The films will first air on ABC as part of the network’s weekly Wonderful World of Disney presentation on Saturday nights throughout summer 2008. The full-length films will then be available for free streaming online for the following week. Here’s what […]

Internet TV is rapidly stealing viewers away from traditional TV, according to the latest research from media research firm Ipsos: The percentage of video viewed on a TV among video downloaders and streamers declined from 75% in February 2007 to 70% in February 2008 The percentage of total screen time captured by movie theaters also declined significantly […]

Amazon.com is planning to take on Apple’s iTunes Store with a new video-on-demand service, the company has revealed. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, speaking at the All Things D Conference, described the service as a “new version of video on demand” that will begin showing videos instantly on personal computers. Videos will be sold on an […]

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.