Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the latest update for Adobe Flash Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar, which adds H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced full screen video playback. These advancements enable […]

If there’s any doubt that video podcasting is going mainstream, the Wall Street Journal’s new video podcast should end it. The WSJ today announced the launch of a new video podcast, Andy Jordan’s Tech Diary.¬†The show¬†chronicles the often odd stories that can be found when people and technology come together. According to the WSJ, Jordan […]

A new version of HandBrake, the popular open-source DVD-ripper & video format converter, has been released. Here are the highlights of the new release: User experience is improved through a re-envisioned Mac interface and a Windows interface that‚Äôs been rebuilt from the ground up. Picture quality is improved through better image scaling, better deinterlacing, new […]

When you look at the steady stream of companies that are hyped at sites like TechCrunch – companies like Cluztr, Validas, Wablet and Weebly – it doesn’t seem like a stretch to think that there’s something to the idea that there’s a “Web 2.0” bubble, an unwarranted rush of interest and investment in new Internet […]

ZDNet’s David Berlind has published an interesting article on the Twitterization of traditional media. While the focus of the article is on how Twitter will affect big media, Berlind also does a great job of summarizing the challenges facing corporate media as it is forced to compete with bloggers, podcasters and video podcasters: Although it […]

UK ISPs, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, are warning that they may “pull the plug” on the BBC’s new iPlayer, a new Windows Internet video player, because of its potential to eat up Internet bandwidth. They’re threatening to block the player or throttle bandwidth for users unless the BBC gives the ISPs a cut […]

There’s been a lot of blog discussion, recently, about podcasting startup PodTech and its struggles to become profitable. The company is burning through cash to support 38 employees and high-rent office space in Palo Alto, but has failed to create any breakout Internet TV franchises. CenterNetworks’ Allen Stern offers Five Suggestions to Improve PodTech: Update […]

MSNBC has announced that, after the live AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum has concluded, non-NBC media, blogs and Internet media may make unlimited use of the debate and excerpts, with appropriate credit to MSNBC, for the purpose of analyzing, reporting on, or commenting on the Forum.¬† While many would consider this fair use, MSNBC is making […]

Internet television site Veoh has filed an action in Federal court against Universal Music Group (UMG), “to reinforce its rights as a copyright compliant company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).” Veoh is preemptively attacking Universal, according to the company, to “create a copyright friendly environment” for Internet video. […]

Apple introduced a completely rewritten iMovie in the iLife ’08 suite earlier this week. But, while the new iMovie streamlines production of simple videos, some users are also finding that Apple dropped their favorite features from iMovie HD, the previous version. iMovie ’08 eliminates timeline-style editing, which can make it more difficult to do things […]