Reuters - More than one in four Europeans
regularly watches online video on sites such as Google's
YouTube but the medium has a long way to go to catch up with
regular TV, according to Internet research firm Jupiter.
Reuters - NBC and Fox News Channel sued
video-sharing service Redlasso for copyright infringement on
Wednesday, accusing the website of showing programs like "The
Tonight Show" and "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith" without
permission.
NewsFactor - Media giant Viacom took its fight to the public this week seeking to outline battle lines in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube's parent, Google. Viacom filed the lawsuit in March 2007 alleging that YouTube purposefully allowed Viacom's copyrighted content to be distributed on the site. The suit was filed after negotiations between Google and Viacom over licensing content fell apart.
CNET - Google's YouTube is quickly shedding its reputation in Hollywood as a clearinghouse for pirated content and could soon be home to clips from popular movies and TV shows--all legally obtained.
CNET - I spent Tuesday afternoon as a guest of Beet.TV impresario Andy Plesser, who hosted a fascinating colloquium at Stanford University. It was a small group, maybe a couple of dozen people altogether, drawn from the technology industry, the venture capital community and media to discuss the state of online video.
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209400772/28324357/SIG=131m8ahqn/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=EF2BUQQ2LPMGWQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The product-purchase option will debut with four TV shows, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Colbert Report," and "Burn Notice."
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalvideo/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080722/tc_pcworld/148757"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080717/i/r3879925750.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=wzPFfM0DCq7gn4XTFDsaQA--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Amazon.com chairman Jeff Bezos speaks to the media during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Seattle, Washington May 28, 2003. REUTERS/Anthony P. Bolante" border="0" /></a>PC World - TiVo owners will see links to buy products shown in commercials and TV shows directly from Amazon.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalvideo/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080722/tc_nm/microsoft_xbox_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080722/i/r2944013870.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FLPlcGqHK_3nrd8QNuDhaQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Guests play the Xbox 360 "Halo 3" Multiplayer Beta video game during a preview party at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp will turn to
users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the
types of games available on its console, taking a page out of
the strategy books of Facebook and YouTube.</p><br clear="all"/>
NewsFactor - TiVo and Amazon expanded their digital partnership Monday. The pioneers in digital video recorders and online retail have teamed up to give TiVo subscribers the ability to purchase products from Amazon.com on TV sets, using the TiVo remote control.
PC Magazine - Four top consumer-electronic companies are backing a wireless multimedia CE interface developed by Amimon, by forming a special interest group devoted to the technology.
PC Magazine - Online shopping addicts beware. A TiVo-Amazon partnership will soon allow TiVo customers to purchase items via Amazon.com without ever leaving the couch.
CNET - TiVo--a company well-known for helping TV viewers skip commercials--is teaming up with Amazon.com to make it easier for consumers to purchase products they see on television commercials and talk shows, according to a report Monday on The New York Times Web site.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalvideo/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080721/wr_nm/bd_youtube_divorce_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080722/i/r2717214970.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=Xv5vhVyIRgk53QQwOdjmbw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Tricia Walsh-Smith arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, July 21, 2008. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A British actress who earned YouTube
stardom after posting monologues about her failed high society
marriage was cruel to her husband and must vacate their
apartment within a month, a New York judge ruled on Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalvideo/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_en_ot/youtube_divorce"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080721/i/r2374324097.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=FRinY8AOewq3u0sgVGKN6w--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Tricia Walsh-Smith arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, July 21, 2008. Walsh-Smith, a British former actress, gained notoriety by posting video monologues on the internet site YouTube to attack her husband, Broadway producer Philip Smith. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES)" border="0" /></a>AP - A Broadway mogul whose wife trashed him in a widely viewed Internet video was granted a divorce from her Monday.</p><br clear="all"/>
TechWeb - <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/cmp/tc_cmp/storytext/209400095/28311816/SIG=1316pb2pl/*http://www.informationweek.com/;jsessionid=TMLDNYW2YQUIAQSNDLQSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=feed-yahoo-news">InformationWeek</a> - The mobile video broadcasting service boasts Facebook integration and compatibility with more handsets.
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/digitalvideo/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_en_ot/music_review_daft_punk_dvd"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080721/capt.73536537dfc44ce3b30a58c4af3d7744.music_review_daft_punk_nyet443.jpg?x=99&y=130&q=85&sig=nxTncDanBiMQi5vU4HlJzg--" align="left" height="130" width="99" alt="In this image released by Vice Records, the latest DVD by Daft Punk, 'Electroma,' is shown. (AP Photo/Vice Records)" border="0" /></a>AP - Daft Punk, "Electroma" (Vice Records)</p><br clear="all"/>
Reuters - Digital high-definition radio is
hitting some key milestones in terms of pricing and features,
but building enough momentum to spur broad consumer adoption
remains a tall order.
CNET - Google CEO Eric Schmidt has spoken more than once this year about monetizing YouTube, but he showed some signs of patience on Thursday for finding a new, good way to sell ads on the video-sharing site. And when Google gets the mechanism right, Schmidt said he expects to hit the mother lode.
NewsFactor - TiVo says it has completed the technology to make YouTube videos available on TV sets connected to its digital video recorder (DVR) boxes. As part of an agreement with YouTube announced in March, TiVo expects to roll out a software upgrade over the next few weeks.
NewsFactor - Sony cut the price of its 60GB PS3 console in advance of this week's E3 Business and Media Summit, which finished Thursday in Los Angeles. The company also announced a new 80GB system for $499, then announced that the price would be cut $100 by fall. While news reports have emphasized the price drop, Sony tried to highlight other aspects of the PS3 experience, including the ability of PlayStation Home subscribers to download movies and inhabit virtual online communities.
