Apple Insider says that investment bank Piper Jaffray expects Apple to introduce networked tv, along with an Apple TV set-top DVR box later this year. Apple has consistently denied interest in such markets, however. “We expect Apple to design a connected television over the next two years (launching in 2011) with DVR functionality built in,”Piper [...]

The New York Times reports that YouTube is working with Hollywood talent agency William Morris on a deal that would place the company’s clients into made-for-the-Web productions: The deal would underscore the ways that distribution models are evolving on the Internet. Already, some actors and other celebrities are creating their own content for the Web, [...]

Marc Cuban has published a provocative post at his Blog Maverick site, The Great Internet Video Lie. In it, Cuban argues that new media producers that think that the Internet is democratizing video are suckers that have bought into a big lie: The Great Internet Video Lie is that the internet opens distribution to compete [...]

The Associated Press has picked Hulu as its Website of the Year: In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. “This is period of great experimentation in regard to media, in regard to online video,” said Hulu chief [...]

ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead: Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray [...]

This demo video from Microsoft demonstrates a new technology, Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics, that can make it easy to do video special effects editing: The representation has some of the power of a full reconstruction of 3D surface models from video, but is designed to be easy to recover from a priori unseen and uncalibrated footage. [...]

Researchers at the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington have created amazing new software technology for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using photographs of the same scene. According to the researchers: Our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs [...]

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, [...]

AdWeek has an article today looking at 60Frames, a new company that hopes to provide a platform for mainstream actors and directors to create and distribute short-form Internet videos. 60Frames is hoping that the “high-quality” content that makes movie blockbusters and hit TV shows can create the same buzz online. 60Frames is a spinoff of [...]