The world of Internet video just got a lot more interesting. The Netflix Player by Roku is the first product that lets you get Netflix movies and TV shows streamed directly to your TV screen. It also costs $100 and offers about 8 times the movie selection of Apple TV. Best of all, if you’ve [...]

Television content available through Apple’s iTunes Store continues to grow. HBO and Apple today officially announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download via the iTunes Store. Programs include The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwoo, Rome, Flight of the Conchords and The Wire. “We’re very excited to make these legendary [...]

According to a Hollywood Reporter report – Apple’s iTunes store will be getting more movies and getting them sooner. Apple is expected to announce today that it has struck a deal with a wide array of movie studios to sell new releases at its iTunes Store. The move would come as many bricks & morter [...]

I’m a big fan of Apple TV – but it’s going to be a hard sell unless Apple gets more studios on board and builds up a library of long-tail content. Apple TV & iTunes currently offer less than 1,000 movies  – or about 89,900 less than Netflix: The version of the iTunes Store reachable [...]

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway. While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a [...]

It looks like Toshiba is giving up on HD DVD, making Blu-Ray the de facto high-definition DVD standard. The format war, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has confused consumers unsure of which DVD or player to buy. The HD DVD standard has suffered crippling blows in the last few months, though, [...]

Apple today announced that MacBook Air is now shipping. Apple also announced that the new Apple TV software update, which lets you rent high definition movies directly from your widescreen TV, is not quite finished. Apple now plans to make the free software download available in another week or two. The update to Apple TV [...]

Google today announced a new standard for helping search engines index video, Video Sitemaps. Video Sitemaps is an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, [...]

SyncTV, a new on-demand Internet video service based on open standards, has launched in beta mode. SyncTV offers TV shows on an unlimited download basis in DVD quality or better. The service lets you download whole seasons of TV shows and watch them when you want. Based on open-standards, the SyncTV service works on Windows [...]

Major League Baseball (MLB) has struck out with at least one baseball mega-fan, author and blogger Allan Wood. He got thrown a curve ball when MLB changed their online video service, dumping their DRM provider and rendering fans’ older video purchases unplayable. Wood’s a vocal, major-league fan of baseball. He’s written a book about Babe [...]