Streaming Video

Amazing Video Sampling From Eboman

Mar 4th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, General, Strange, Streaming Video, Video

This is about the best thing I’ve seen in days – Katrina & The Waves’ Walking On Sunshine made out of video-sampled car-crashes. It’s created by video remixer Eboman. More of his Sample madnesS videos here.



FastCompany TV Goes Live Today With Scoble

Mar 3rd, 2008 | By | Category: General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

Robert Scoble left PodTech in mid-January to work for business magazine FastCompany. His new videoblogging gig, FastCompany TV, launched today. In his welcome video, Scoble lolls around on the beach in a seaside frolic (not kidding), and explains the company’s initial two video channels. FastCompany Live, the more immediately interactive of the channels, will feature […]



Dancejam Raises Questions About The Future Of Niche Internet Video Sites

Mar 2nd, 2008 | By | Category: General, Podcasting Services, Streaming Video, Video

What does $4.5 million and the help of a superdope homeboy from the Oaktown get you these days? Not much, if the just-out-of-beta Dancejam is any indication. Dancejam is a YouTube clone that focuses on urban dance. The site lets you view videos of people doing various types of dance, rate the videos and upload […]



YouTube Live Video Coming In 2008

Feb 29th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Video blogger Sarah Meyers (Pop 17) caught up with Steve Chen, one of YouTube’s founders, recently, and got a scoop on YouTube live video. The company plans to have a YouTube live video streaming service this year: “We‚Äôll do it this year,” said Chen. “Live video is just something that we‚Äôve always wanted to do, […]



Surprise! NBC’s Online Bomb Quarterlife Bombs On TV, Too

Feb 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

NBC’s Quarterlife – a heavily-hyped serialized drama from the creators of thirtysomething and My So-Called Life – was supposed to be a bold new direction for television. The show was hyped as “the first television-quality production for the Web.” Unfortunately, it was a pretty awful television-quality production for the Web. In December, we told you […]



NBC To Use P2P To Distribute Internet TV

Feb 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, General, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service. While it’s interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It […]



This Is The Golden Age Of Video

Feb 27th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Kent Nichols – one of the viral video gurus behind Ask A Ninja – has an interesting new post at his site. He looks at the state of Internet video, calling it the golden age: “The Indie TV movement is on the rise. The club of show runners is now open to anyone with a […]



5 Ways To Update Your Podcast For Apple TV 2

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, How to Podcast, Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

With the release of Apple TV Take 2, Apple is putting podcasts and video podcasts front and center in people’s living rooms. This means that your podcast now needs to look great in HD. Here are 5 ways to update your podcast for Apple TV Take 2: Increase the resolution of your video podcast. Apple […]



Blu-Ray Death Watch Starting

Feb 23rd, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video

Back in June of last year, we suggested that in the fight between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, Internet TV would be the winner: Internet TV is plagued by the same problems as Blu-Ray and HD DVD, though: limited content, complex setup and high cost for hardware. Nevertheless, Internet TV is already good enough to make […]



CBS Offering Star Trek On Demand

Feb 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Streaming Video

CBS Interactive has announced that it will begin offering classic shows from its archive as on-demand Internet television. The initial lineup includes full-length episodes of Star Trek, The Twighlight Zone, MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0 and Melrose Place. All content is ad-supported, free to the consumer, and available immediately. While we can’t say that CBS is boldly […]