Category: Video

Online live video streaming service Ustream has announced a couple of new features today: Open Pay-Per-View and Ad-Free Broadcasting. Both are coming soon. If you're a Ustream user, Open Pay-Per-View will allow you to charge people for viewing your content. You will have to apply to Ustream to be able to take advantage of this feature, and once you're approved you will be able to charge for the ...

Miro is an excellent do-it-all video program. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and it can do just about everything video-related you could ask one program to do. Miro will download torrents, organize your movies, play them back (with subtitles), and as of the just-released version 3.5 it will even convert your videos for a variety of devices. Conversions are fast and painless, and everything ...

There are plenty of people who just assumed Adobe and HTML5 would mix like oil and water -- thanks to the whole Flash Player thing. In truth, however, Adobe has been delivering Web development tools like Dreamweaver for quite some time -- so it stands to reason that they'd offer HTML5 goodies at some point. Illustrator and Dreamweaver already received add-ons which bring HTML5 kung fu, and now ...

YouTube's Partner Program for musicians, commonly known as Musicians Wanted, has been expanded out of the US this week. Musicians in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., Sweden, the Czech Republic, Argentina, and New Zealand, can now get in on the revenue sharing action for their music videos. By signing up for the Partner Program, you keep the rights to ...

YouTube, like all Google apps for Android, used to be integrated into the operating system, and as a consequence, updates to it would only come when new versions of the OS were released. But Google is working to change this situation -- it started with Gmail, and now it has decoupled YouTube from the OS as well, making it a standalone app available in the Android Market. Hopefully this opens the ...

Yes, it might sound like a handy towel for cleaning and refreshing your tired face, but it's not: Facelette is Chatroulette for FaceTime. Just enter your phone number or email address, hit 'FaceTime Me!' and before you know it, you're faced with a white, shiny, Apple-toting penis. Released to the world only 10 hours ago on Hacker News, the developer admits that the 'entire app is as dumb as ...

Dragontape, the service that has nothing to do with dragons and everything to do with dragging YouTube videos onto a "tape," has launched a feature that probably should have been there from the beginning: embedding. You can now embed your YouTube-derived mixtapes on your blog or even Facebook, since oEmbed is used to ensure the widest possible compatibility. The embedded video player looks great ...

During an event in Cupertino this morning, Apple has announced FaceTime for Mac. A beta version of the application is already available to download. This partially addresses one of the biggest gripes FaceTime users have had with the service -- lack of support for video chatting with people on their computers. It only partially addresses it though, since it's only available for the Mac as of now ...

Well that didn't take long. Poor little Google TV -- Hulu doesn't want to be friends. It has again blocked access from your Chrome app even after changing its browser user agent. But who are we kidding? It's not exactly a surprise given that access to Hulu through other set-top boxes requires a Hulu Plus subscription, and we're sure Hulu wants to keep it that way. Google TV is, of course, ...

OK, so Google told Hulu they'd play nice and allow their Google TV browser to be blocked until the two companies could come to an agreement. But here's the thing. Google TV devices ship with the Chrome App. Chrome comes with Flash. There's no reason it couldn't play Hulu content, right? Right. And if there's one thing we know about Google and Chrome, it's that the Big G wants to bear hug ...

The Internet, through thick and thin, has always had one stalwart companion: porn. It's a recurring theme throughout history, in fact: where there is new technology, there is porn -- and games. Before big money even thinks about investing there must be a proof of concept -- and that responsibility inexorably falls to porn and games. In this case, games actually came first (I played ...

I've been thoroughly enjoying Netflix on my Wii. It's not perfect, but we Canadians aren't exactly blessed with a plethora of streaming media options. Also, it scores big-time bonus points for offering Blackadder. One minor gripe about the Wii incarnation: having to use a disc to launch Netflix. Today, however, Netflix has announced that you can now access the app from your Wii Menu -- totally ...

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News of Microsoft bringing new apps to any of Apple's platforms always seems to be met with raised eyebrows, but with Redmond's determination to make Windows Phone 7 a much more compelling experience than its mobile predecessors this particular news shouldn't come as a surprise: WP7 device sync is coming to Mac. You'll even be able to use the new-and-improved Zune desktop app to manage music, ...

We heard rumors earlier this week, but now it's official - LoveFilm, like its US counterpart Netflix, is taking its online streaming into UK living rooms via the PS3. This is big news for the UK's largest movie rental service and great news for British PS3 owners, who up until now, have been stuck with pricey PlayStation Store media rentals. Details are a bit thin on the ground at the moment; ...