Blog Maverick Mark Cuban argues that the best way to increase your audience for Internet video is to allow downloads:
Many of the major video sites have added this option, but its amazing that newspaper, TV and other sites that have recently added video, for the most part do not.
With online video, maybe adding the word [...]

NBC & Pando Networks, a provider of P2P content delivery services, announced today that Pando will be providing video delivery services for the NBC Direct service.
While it’s interesting to see a mainstream network using P2P to distribute video, it looks like NBC Direct is going to be another misbegotten proprietary Internet television offering. It requires [...]

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, announced earlier today that it would begin selling episodes of some of its popular television programming via the Apple iTunes Music Store. The BBC says it is the first UK television network to offer its shows on iTunes. Episodes of such programs as Torchwood and [...]

Over at PBS’s MediaShift, Jennifer Woodard Maderazo offers her take on why she’s leaving print media behind for digital:
In new media circles, one of the hottest topics of recent years has been the print-to-digital shift. People pundit about it, shout “print is dead” and wallow in the sadness sparked by nostalgia for a day when [...]

Tooble is a new program for OS X that automatically downloads, converts and imports any YouTube video to play on your video iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, or even on your computer with iTunes.
Tooble’s browser lets you search YouTube, play videos, select the ones you want and then download them and load them into iTunes.
Here’s how it [...]

Netflix and LG Electronics are reported to be prepping a Apple TV killer, a set top box that will let users stream video content from the Internet directly to HDTVs.
Netflix has 7 million members. If it can convince even a small percent of its members to try the service, it could quickly leapfrog Apple’s Internet [...]

The New York Times highlights a growing trend - people are spending more time with online media and less time with television.
Why are fewer viewers watching the new fall television series? Perhaps because they are too busy watching video online.
As broadband service becomes more available at home, the growing prevalence of video programming on the [...]

NBC Direct, a video download service that lets you view recent episodes of popular shows, is now live in beta mode.
We have seen the future, though, and it is not NBC Direct.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s a picture of NBC Direct:

Here are some of the limitations that cripple NBC Direct:

You [...]

Al Gore’s two year-old cable channel, Current, relaunched its website on Monday to better incorporate user generated content and better target an 18-34 demographic. The updated site supports all the major “Web 2.0″ bells and whistles, including photo and video sharing, comments and discussion forums on upcoming stories.
The site also now appears to be trying [...]

This year, it’s looking more and more like the major broadcast networks are going to be taking baby steps into Internet media, experimenting with a variety of different methods of delivery while trying to protect their traditional business model:

Fox plans to offer the season premiere episodes of seven programs for free through Apple’s iTunes store, [...]