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There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items:

Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from.
TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected subscribers [...]

CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.
The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities to [...]

CES: Mattress manufacturer Leggett & Platt has created either the ultimate bed of the future or an expensive piece of iCrap.
Their Starry Night Bed is a high-end sleeping system (costing up to $50,000) that offers some insanely high-tech features, including:

Anti-snore technology
Dual programmable temperature control from 68 to 117 degrees Fahrenheit
Sleep Diagnostic Center; monitors body movement [...]

At the upcoming 2008 CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Archos will introduce a new set-top box, imaginatively named Archos TV, that promises to give Apple TV some real competition.
Here the details (preliminary):

80GB ($249) and 250GB ($349) versions
Onscreen recording guide
640×480 digital video recorder
Cool QWERTY remote control
Infrared emitter for controlling your cable box or TV
Built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet [...]

Miglia Technology has announced TVMax+, a content collection hub, for use with iPod, AppleTV and Apple computers.
TVMax+ lets you view TV shows on every screen in your home, from your living room to your iPod to your Mac. TVMax+ also doubles as a digital TV tuner, so you can watch, pause and record TV shows [...]

iLuv has introduced a new device, the iLuv i182, that is designed to make capturing video for playing on an iPod easy. Videos can be captured manually or in increments of 30, 60, 120, or 180 minutes with resolution as high as 640 x 480, 2.5 Mbps.
The dock connects to any source with an S-video [...]

SageTV Media Center, a personal video recording (PVR) and media center software package for Windows and Linux PCs, has added new features that include bringing online video to the TV, support for the global DVB broadcasting standard, the ability to play unencrypted DVD libraries on the TV with SageTV Media Extender, and expanded file support [...]