Big-boxer Best Buy thinks YouTube has left something on the table -- but isn't entirely clear on what that is. The retailer has teamed up with British startup Mydeo for a subscription video storage and sharing service, with subscriptions from $7. Unlike YouTube, they say, it's safe to put up that video of Jr.'s first messy minutes in the … [Read more...]
Hulu video site gets down to business
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...]
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