Internet video startup Hulu today announced the beta of a new high-definition video service: Today we’re excited to launch an HD Gallery featuring a selection of High Definition video clips at 1280 x 720 resolution. Those of you with a fast internet connection of 2,400 Kbps or higher, the latest build of Adobe Flash Player [...]

Sony is expanding its line of video projection systems a couple of new LCD models for larger-venues that, while not exactly impulse buys, are priced within the range of many organization. The new VPL-FW300L (7,000 lumens) and the VPL-FH300L (6,000 lumens) projector models are ideal for smaller auditoriums, large classrooms and meeting rooms, museum exhibits, [...]

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. The site is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer’s Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it. Chen expects that high-quality YouTube vids will be available to everyone within three months. Chen also confirmed [...]

Businessweek takes a look today at the fight between Blu-Ray and HD DVD to become the dominant standard for high-definition video delivery: Time doesn’t appear to be on either side. With hard-drive capacity growing exponentially and prices coming down even more sharply, experts predict most broadband-enabled homes within 10 years will download much of their [...]

Apple today announced that it is offering a new Apple TV build-to-order option with a 160GB hard drive, addressing one of the most common complaints about the device, its relatively puny storage space. The new larger hard drive offers four times the storage for up to 200 hours of video, 36,000 songs, 25,000 photos or [...]

Make has a note on their site today saying that the awesomely empowerful Make: Video Podcast is optimized for AppleTV. You can subscribe and watch the standard MP4 or mov at 640×360, or select the HD version which is set up to look awesome in HD. “I shoot in hdv so it’s not up-res-ing,” says [...]

Scoble voices a complaint that is becoming common among Apple TV owners: I’ve been watching a TON of Internet videos with my son the past few days. I haven’t found one that really looks awesome yet that can compare with the Discovery Channel’s HD content, for instance. Today I spent a few hours at Adobe [...]

Apple has updated its podcasting specs and is sending out emails to video podcasters with tips on how to make them look great on Apple TV. The tips include: Encode at 640√ó480 or 640√ó360. This will look much better than 320√ó240 on HDTV, and will still port to the iPod. While 720p looks great, they [...]

Media aggregator Azureus has introduced Vuze, a new Internet video community. Formerly code-named Zudeo, the site already attracts more than two million unique monthly visitors. Vuze lets content providers distribute high resolution, long-form content in High Definition or DVD quality over the Internet. “Vuze recognizes that the next generation online video experience lies within the [...]

The HD-DVD has been apparently been cracked, and high definition content is now being distributed freely over BitTorrent. The first HD-DVD to be uploaded to BitTorrent is Serenity, the Firefly movie. According to HDTV Blogger, the torrent is “a 19.6GB file in native EVO format that should play on PowerDVD and WinDVD with HD DVD [...]