Tag: ONLINEVIDEO

People will always argue about what should and shouldn't be protected under free speech, but most people who aren't named Michael Vick would agree that animal cruelty falls outside of its borders. Yesterday, however, the Supreme Court decided that current law governing the depiction of animal cruelty actually goes too far in prosecuting those who broadcast video or images of animal cruelty. In ...

Share As the autonomy of individual Web surfers has grown, we've come to expect to be able to instantly broadcast a message, post a video, or direct-message celebrities on Twitter. The last frontier, though, was supposed to be TV, the only media nook in which there still seemed to be some distance between us and the people on the other side of the screen. Unlike posting a video of yourself to ...

Could it be true? Is YouTube finally shedding its viral training wheels and pedaling its way up to the paid-content big kids' table? Sure seems like it. According to USA Today, YouTube plans to begin offering online movie rentals this week, in an attempt both to help independent filmmakers gain more exposure, and to test the waters of the paid-content market. Starting on Friday, YouTube will ...

Do you feel like your tweets are falling on deaf ears? Well, you won't anymore, thanks to a Jew-centric (and hypothetical) alternative. 'Twitteleh' (video after the break) caters to "the one person who actually wants to hear about your day" -- your Jewish mother. It's much easier to use than Twitter, too. Just answer three questions: Where are you? What have you eaten? Are you wearing a sweater? ...

Tuesday night's Philadelphia Phillies game featured fan Steve Monforto making an amazing catch of a foul ball. Even better, his adorable little daughter was along for the game, and it was all caught on video. Being a good dad and all, Monforto handed his daughter what was probably her first foul ball, and she promptly tossed it over the upper-deck railing (typical Philadelphia sports fan). ...

YouTube's vast repository of videos offers video of just about anything imaginable -- from rare concert footage to gadget reviews. But, according to a report from the University of Kentucky posted on LabSpaces, brain injury researchers are using the site for something more noble: head trauma research. Best of all, they've actually made some concrete findings that could help coaches make safer ...

As the Internet has become more accessible and essential to our lives, it's natural that we find ourselves online more than ever -- even when we're watching television. According to a new quarterly report (PDF link) by Nielsen, 57-percent of Americans watch television while surfing the Net at least once a month. (We'll admit, we do this on a daily basis.) The report also contains some other ...

DVD sales plummeted in 2008, as some companies, specifically Warner Bros., watched their numbers drop by as much as 24-percent from the previous year. Many analysts attribute the decline to the economy, believing that people are foregoing hefty price tags for films that are freely available, legally or not, on the Web. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in an effort to combat declining ...

Call it the 'Hulu Effect,' but there's been a sea change in the way people watch television shows. According to Fast Company, a recent survey by Comscore and Silicon Alley Insider found that, during the month of July, more folks watched Hulu than did Time Warner Cable. The numbers stacked up like this: 38 million viewers watched a video at least once on Hulu, a free online video service, while ...

In 2007, YouTube established its Partnership Program, a way for some of the site's "most popular and prolific content creators" to actually earn revenue from their viral videos. YouTube has occasionally rewarded the creators of massively popular individual videos, as well, like the dad who filmed his stoned kid after a visit to the dentist. Today, YouTube announced that it is extending the program ...

Over the past few years we've covered the various copyright trials and tribulations of Google-owned video superpower YouTube as it struggles to survive in a word full of legislation. We're sad to say the company has seemingly caved to pressure from the recording industry, enacting a rather harsh fix to the problem of users adding copyrighted tunes to the background of their videos: tThe site is ...

It was just a few months ago that members of Congress were officially allowed to start posting content to YouTube -- something that the citizens of the U.S. have been doing in droves for years. Now our government's support for the site is getting rather more official. Both the Congress and the Senate have launched their own YouTube video channels, giving you two portals for all the online ...

Let's be frank. No one gets all that excited at the idea of safe sex and the mention of condoms. But if you're out there having unprotected sex you're a moron. Sorry to be blunt, dear readers, but it's true, and everyone has been trying to tell you this for years and you're still not listening. But while we're resorting to name calling and verbal abuse, others like Rachel Jones, a professor of ...

"Santa and Bleebo Save Christmas" with Jessica Biel and David Koechner by Dave Koechner The battle for best overall video site keeps raging, with YouTube, Hulu, and plenty of others scrambling to snag the most licensed content. But while those video hub sites fight for sitcom re-runs and old movies, other video sites are working on providing more fresh content. Such is the case with Will ...

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 ...