Apple today announced iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including: 20th Century Fox The Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros. Paramount Universal Studios Home Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Lionsgate New Line Cinema Users can rent movies for as low as $2.99 and watch them on their Macs or PCs, […]

Apple today unveiled all new software for Apple TV that allows movie fans to rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from their widescreen TV, and lowered the price of Apple TV to $229. With iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV, users can just click a button on their remote to rent movies from a […]

Twentieth Century Fox and Apple today announced Digital Copy for iTunes, which provides customers who purchase a DVD with an additional Digital Copy of the movie that can be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on Apple TV. “Now movie fans can easily transfer a […]

WeGame is a new site that’s a bit like Seesmic for machinima. (Machinima are animated movies made using video games.) The site lets you download a client (Windows only) that lets you record video from a variety of games, including: Battlefield 2 Battlefield 2142 C&C 3 Call of Duty 2 Call of Duty 4 CoH […]

The BBC has announced that their controversial iPlayer on-demand video application has been downloaded over a million times, and that users have viewed over 3.5 million programs. BBC research reveals that an average of a quarter of a million programs have been downloaded or streamed each day since 25 December. Users, on average, watch each […]

Wallstrip creator Howard Lindzon has announced that the show is getting a new host, Julie Alexandria: Don‚Äôt shoot the messenger. We all love Lindsay. She rocks. She is Wallstrip. Blah blah blah 🙂 . Now it‚Äôs Julie‚Äôs turn so just deal with it. Wallstrip is about stocks near or at all-time highs (for the most […]

Ever since Windows Vista came out and was pretty universally panned, Windows users have been worrying about upgrading. Infoworld is doing what it can to help, though, by sponsoring a Save Windows XP video contest: InfoWorld encourages you to contribute your own videos on why XP should be saved. (Although our plea is serious, why […]

Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings. The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities […]