The world of Internet video just got a lot more interesting. The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that lets you get Netflix movies and TV shows streamed directly to your TV screen. It also costs $100 and offers about 8 times the movie selection of Apple TV. Best of all, if you’ve […]

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide. The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 […]

YouTube has updated YouTube Insight, a free tool that lets anyone with a YouTube account view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. Included in the update: One is a new demographics tab that displays view count information broken down by age group (such as ages 18-24), gender, or a combination […]

Excited about the new version of Speed Racer? Hulu has a collection of classic Speed Racer episodes available on demand as streaming video.

Orb Networks today announced a new service that streams live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. “TV on the iPhone is now real,” said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. “Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs […]

Earlier in the year, we noted that bad advertising is holding back online TV, citing the poorly targeted, overlong and disruptive ads on Hulu as an example. Anyone that thinks that you are going to sit through traditional television advertising when you’re watching online videos is out of touch, at best. This view is starting […]

Video search company blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx BBTV, a new online television service that leverages blinkx’s speech and visual recognition technology to deliver Internet television with contextually linked information. blinkx BBTV enables users to instantly browse or interact with online sources related to what they are watching, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB […]

Last March, we enjoyed bringing you Thirty-One Days of Music, featuring a different free music podcast each day. This March, blogger–podcaster–songwriter Dean Whitbread (aka @DeekDeekster) has been taking a different approach to a music-filled month of March. Five mornings a week, he and a group of spectator/collaborators have been writing a fresh song daily on […]

YouTube today announced the winners in its 2007 YouTube Video Awards, which seem to have come and gone again this year with a whimper, not a bang. Winning videos include Laughing Baby, Potter Puppet Pals and Human Tetris. Here’s the complete list. Given its place as the number one Internet video destination, you’d think YouTube […]

Video blogger Sarah Meyers (Pop 17) caught up with Steve Chen, one of YouTube’s founders, recently, and got a scoop on YouTube live video. The company plans to have a YouTube live video streaming service this year: “We‚Äôll do it this year,” said Chen. “Live video is just something that we‚Äôve always wanted to do, […]