Sony‘s BRAVIA Internet Video Link has taken a leap forward, bringing YouTube support, and laughing babies to Sony’s TVs The BRAVIA Internet Video Link is a small module that attaches to the back of a selection of the company’s BRAVIA LCD flat-panel television models, giving them support for Internet television. A broadband connection of at […]

Hulu today added a smart feature to its embedded videos: video search: We’ve just released a new feature that lets you search for videos from Hulu players that are embedded on blogs, social networking sites and similar pages on the Web. Your search results will appear directly in the Hulu video screen, and you don’t […]

LadyAda, creator of a variety of cool DIY projects that have been featured in Make magazine, has a new kit that lets you make your own Internet set-top box out of an Altoid tin.  Description: The YBox2 is a DIY networked set-top box. Connect it to your TV and you can design customized content to […]

Verismo Networks has announced a sort of poor-man’s Apple TV, the PoD. The $99 device uses your broadband connection to deliver Internet television to your HD TV. It can play videos from YouTube, BitTorrent and other sources, without the need for a PC. NewTeeVee got a preview of the device from Verismo CEO Prakash Bhalerao […]

The BBC has announced that it will broadcast BBC1 live to the Internet, making it the first of the BBC’s stations to be simulcast online. BBC1 will be available via bbc.co.uk, which is being relaunched. “Building on the success of the iPlayer, we want to develop bbc.co.uk to include a broad range of the BBC’s […]

The Phoenix Mars Mission, which is led by University of Arizona’s Department of Planetary Sciences Lunar and Planetary Lab, has a video podcast that’s available via iTunes U. The video podcast features videos related to the launch and landing of the Phoenix on Mars. There are also five Open House lectures, led by Victor R. […]

The Ninja drops some mad wisdom about the future of Internet media & throws some new media facts at you along the way. And some of them are even true!

Remember VHS tapes? Ion Audio has introduced the VCR 2 PC – a VHS player with USB output. The player comes with software that lets you burn your videos to DVD or watch on your PSP, iPod or laptop computer. You can also connect VHS, VHS-C, or 8MM camcorders to the front panel jacks to […]

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 […]

Jim Louderback, CEO of podcasting/new media network Revision3, has an explanation for why his site died over Memorial Day weekend: they were hacked and attacked by MediaDefender, a company that works for the music and film industries doing anti-piracy work.

“Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes, without our approval,” says Louderback. “They willingly admitted to abusing Revision3’s network, over a period of months, by injecting a broad array of torrents into our tracking server.”