The New York Times does a curtain-raiser on today's public beta launch of Hulu, the online video service created for NBC and Fox. CEO Jason Kilar, left, formerly of Amazon, cites the game plan of using only professional programming from a variety of big media players. Hulu's dance is to present the content, not make it. "We don’t have to … [Read more...]
TiVo owners in for faster downloads
TiVo box owners jonesing for more storage space finally are in luck. The DVR pioneer hooked up with Western Digital to enable an external hard drive. The catch: you must own an advanced TiVo box, as in not Series 2. The eSATA drive -- going by the tag of My DVR Expander -- bulks up the TiVo's storage capacity by 500 gigabytes. That's roughly 600 … [Read more...]
‘American Gangster’ robbed by torrent video
The latest victim of illegal pre-boxoffice video streaming is "American Gangster." The Ridley Scott movie, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, opens wide Nov. 2, but you can see it now, illegally and unethically via bit torrents. The copy appears to come from an Academy Award "for your consideration" DVD screener, meaning it's of … [Read more...]
NBC’s latest YouTube defection a power play
NBC's decision to pull its content from YouTube -- in order to promote its upcoming Hulu video hut -- is another blow to the sunshine paradigm in which visual entertainment is collected at one massively popular freebie destination. Old media may seem dumb, but in the long run they're not going to allow an indie to frolick with profits from their … [Read more...]
‘Daily Show’ online — all 8 years’ worth
Want more than just your "Daily" dose? Fans of Jon Stewart's gooney-news show will be swimming in video later today when Comedy Central unleashes a web site featuring a searchable database of shows past.The site -- thedailyshow.com -- will serve up about 13,000 video segments, representing everything ever on the show since its 1999 debut, the Los … [Read more...]
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