“We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring DivX to PS3,” said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, in a statement. “Our technology will expand the multimedia functionality of PS3 by enabling users to enjoy access to the broad library of content in the DivX digital media format.” Giving DivX certification to the PS3 [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – UNDERGROUNDFILM announced today that it has launched on Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.
Undergroundfilm’s (UGF) Joost channels feature animation, shorts and feature films. The content for the channels is provided by UGF’s partner filmmakers, hundreds of talented people committed to serious film who have contributed to UGF’s library of over [...]
OK, not directly related to Internet Protocol TV but it is close to me since I am a Canadian and care about P2P file sharing:
The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Canadian Police Tolerates Piracy For Personal Use Around the same time that the CRIA successfully [...]
“Friends” could soon be buddying up to Hulu. Warner Bros. Television is in active negotiations with the News Corp.-NBC joint-venture to make a slew of WBTV content available on Hulu, execs confirmed Friday. “It’s more likely than not that we’re going to make a deal,” WB Television Group president Bruce Rosenblum said in an [...]
I got this email earlier today:
Many thanks for your interest in Livestation and for your continued patience.
We have had an extraordinary level of interest in Livestation and we have
been working hard to develop the product further. We are now in the process
of rolling out the next phase of the trial with a number of leading
broadcasters to [...]
This news will certainly make some waves:
Regardless of what those oh-so-knowledgeable analysts had to say, we all knew this day was coming. Yep, that highly-touted, totally “impenetrable” copy protection technology known as BD+ has officially been brought to its knees, and it’s not at all surprising to hear that we have SlySoft to thank. The [...]
Joost just launched the Joost developer Blog along with the 1st Joost developer preview release.
A word of warning: preview releases will likely contain serious bugs and may not even work at all. But you will get a first look at new features, and the preview releases may have bug fixes for the current beta release.
Download preview [...]
As the title say, USA Today review Hulu and Joost. You can read the whole thing here.
Here is the conclusion of the review:
Hulu:
“It is a brilliant strategy,” says James McQuivey of Forrester Research. “It doesn’t take a lot of research [...]
Tonight Joost announced a very cool new feature to the service – instant messaging, via Meebo. Integration for now is via Joost widgets. Over time the feature will likely transitioned into a more direct integration.
Joost is starting to play the numbers game, claiming 15,000 shows and 250 channels. Depth is great and all, but what users [...]
The Joost community manager sent out a general email this evening announcing something called Developer Days, set to take place in London, Amsterdam, and New York in November and December. What with OpenSocial and the Facebook API grabbing all available headline space these days, the lure of creating some sort of open API must have been [...]