PBS has announced that it will launch a broad selection of full-length PBS television shows for download on Xbox LIVE, the online games and entertainment network for the Xbox 360.
Included on Xbox LIVE are:

WIRED SCIENCE
CARRIER
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS
NOVA
Ken Burns’ Jazz
Ken Burns’ America
Ken Burns’ American Lives

“Our commitment is to be wherever consumers are accessing media,” said Andrew [...]

Michael Moore appears to be using bootlegging to ensure distribution of his latest film, Slacker Uprising, outside the US and Canada. 
Torrentfreak reports that the film is actively being shared on bitTorrent around the world, despite only being freely available from the official source to people in the US and Canada.
“What do you think I’m up to? I know [...]

 xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a free tool for downloading video clips from a variety of video websites.
xVideoServiceThief also gives you the ability to convert each video into popular formats, including AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP and MP3s.
Features:

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Microsoft Windows Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4, Me/98
Mac OS [...]

Want to know why Steve Jobs is still calling Apple TV his “hobby”?
New research by The NPD Group offers an explanation:

41 percent of dollars budgeted for movies and video is spent on DVD movie purchases;
11 percent for purchases of TV programs on DVD;
29 percent on DVD rentals including Netflix and other video-subscription services;
18 percent is spent on [...]

In July, we reported on the open-source movie community A Swarm of Angels - a group that hopes to update “the current filmmaking models of Hollywood and independent film to create cult cinema for the digital age.”
They’ve announced what they are calling the world’s “first open source film trailer,” for The Unfold, a sci-fi thriller being made open-source [...]

Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is going the route of Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and others and releasing his latest work, Slacker Uprising on the Internet as a free download. According to Moore, it’s the first major feature-length film by a noted director to debut for free via the internet.
Slacker Uprising traces Michael Moore’s 62-city tour of the [...]

Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer today is challenging Apple to move Apple TV from being a “hobby” to being a real business:
If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room’s “digital hub,” then Apple TV needs a serious overhaul, ASAP.
Why now? Because even though the industry is still nascent, the [...]

Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser snags a nice interview with Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google and the man known to many as the”father of the Internet.”
About 4:30 into the interview, Cerf talks a bit about the history of video distribution over the Internet, and then goes on to say that�the popularity and [...]

Time’s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is - OMG! - porn.
iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth.
Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article:
“Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, [...]

Blockbuster unveiled a prototype of an in-store kiosk for downloading movies at its annual meeting on Wednesday, part of its plan to transform into more than just a DVD rental chain.
The kiosk prototype, which will begin testing within the next three weeks, was developed by NCR Corp. For the pilot launch, the kiosks will be [...]