Tag: ONLINE VIDEO

Be still our hearts! Just days after a YouTube "hack" was discovered to view what appeared to be 720p content, and even fewer days since seeing the famed online video sharing site adopt a widescreen format, in comes the real deal: HD. Forever we've waited for the site to catch up with smaller entities that already do high-def, and while it's far from bona fide 1080p, the quality is pretty ...

The show 'Sesame Street' is about as iconic as anything that ever hit the small screen, with generations of kids growing up and then sharing the same televised fun and learning with their own kids. Despite bein well over a quarter-century old, the show continues to be one of the most popular educational programs on TV, and finally is branching out online, spreading its content wings onto iTunes, ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/China_s_Wasteland_of_toxic_e_waste'; Any self-respecting gadget hound knows that China is responsible for packing millions of shipping containers with the consumer electronics we crave. What you may not know is what we ship in return: our waste for recycling. Of growing concern is e-waste, resulting from the deluge of PCs, cellphones, televisions ...

After pioneering and dominating the online video market for so long, YouTube is currently in danger of being made a has-been by services like Hulu, which offers full episodes and films online without the nagging guilt or worry that comes with watching something illegally. As even DirecTV seems to be pondering getting into the online video realm, Google-owned YouTube is doing its best to keep up ...

Treading in the footsteps of Hulu and various other basic and cable TV networks, MTV has launched MTVmusic.com, a free Web site dedicated to streaming music videos, AlleyInsider.com reports. Supported by advertisements, the Web site -- at least for now -- does a fine job of using a tight layout; although there are banner ads, they're relatively inconspicuous. A test-run of Young Jeezy's "Put ...

In its short, three-year history, YouTube has used its short-form videos to build itself into the biggest player in the online video world. Strictly 10-minutes-or-less had been the rule for video length. But recently, the site has been straying away from that limitation, and now is fully taking a step toward lengthier content, by signing a deal with CBS to stream full episodes of TV shows on the ...

Yesterday -- just in time for the first presidential debate -- political activist and documentarian Michael Moore digitally released his most recent film via free download, Reuters reports. Entitled 'Slacker Uprising,' the film is an unveiled effort to nudge U.S. youth into their polling places come November 4. Ready and willing to take a financial loss on the $2 million film, Moore hopes that ...

Vongo gave it a solid go there for a while, but a supported device list that totaled seven (and was missing a certain white whale) combined with lukewarm support and lackluster marketing always spelled doom for the scrappy video-on-demand service, and it looks like Starz has gone ahead and pulled the plug. If you're one of the, uh, dozens who were paying the $10/mo fee, you can still use the ...

A survey by Integrated Media Measurement Inc.(MMI) has found that up to 20% of TV viewing is done online. Roughly half of online viewing is referred to as "replacement viewing," 30% is "catch up viewing" and 18% is "fill in viewing." This comes as little surprise. With companies feverishly attempting to develop more digital content for online viewers it only makes sense that viewership would ...

Some of the brightest starts of Hollywood put their creative talent to the test during the writers' strike last year, among them "How I Met Your Mother" star Neil Patrick Harris, who teamed up with "Buffy The Vampire" creator Joss Whedon to produce the online-only musical miniseries "Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog," a whimsical tale of right vs. wrong, and love, that has steadily built a ...

Just in case you weren't already watching enough YouTube at work and on your home computer, on your iPhone, Ocean, etc., or on your Apple TV, now TiVo's getting in on the action as well. Originally announced earlier this year, TiVo users can finally expect the update to pop over your TiVo's regularly scheduled updates over the next couple of weeks. Oh, and our man Dave Zatz shot some video of the ...

In case you've been hiding under your television set for the past few years, you know that new media is on its way in, while old media (like the cable streaming through that television you've been hiding underneath) is on its way out. In September, Seth MacFarlane (the creator of Fox's 'Family Guy'), will unveil a new project called 'Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.' And while ...

Does anyone still watch the local news? We prefer to get our info from the blogs, though once in a blue moon we do take in a healthy dose of '60 Minutes' while visiting Nana. The news has retained a loyal following, and likewise, a legion of youths who aspire to be the next Katie Courics, Anderson Coopers or Stone Phillipses. And in these desperate times, they're getting creative. In a surreal ...

You might remember that last summer NBC announced that it would be pulling its shows off iTunes because it wanted to saddle its videos with more restrictive Digital Rights Management (DRM) and be able to jack up its prices. Regardless of its motives, fans of NBC, Sci-Fi Channel, or Bravo shows who also had iPods and iPhones were out of luck. But five months after the official end of the iTunes ...

You might remember Hulu, the video streaming service backed by most of the major networks, being touted as the legitimate answer to watching episodes of your favorite shows (in 6 pieces) on YouTube. Now in some sort of delicious, cosmic irony, Hulu has dragged the networks back to YouTube where it has created its own channel and is hosting clips from shows from Fox and NBC that can be seen in ...