By Adriana Lee |
In honor of YouTube turning 8, the Gregory Brothers put together one heck of an ambitious tribute — the “AutoTune the News” fellas stuffed eight years’ worth of YouTube history into one song for the site’s Comedy Week, which kicked off Sunday. So what have we…
By Adriana Lee |
CBS just can’t seem to resist messing with its tech journalists. Earlier this month, when CNET chose Dish Network’s new Hopper with Sling for its Best of CES awards, the broadcasting powerhouse forced the editors to pull their selection due to corporate’s lawsuit with the…
By Adriana Lee |
Show of hands — how many of you streaming video hounds subscribe to Netflix? 1, 2, 3… okay, well, it’s a lot. In fact, you could say if there was one ultimate streaming video content provider to beat, it’s Netflix. CEO Reed Hastings sure would…
By Adriana Lee |
Finally, a little relief could be coming for Netflix customers who are tired of weeding through their kids’ iCarly or Dora the Explorer titles junking up their queue. The company is trying out a new feature that would give individuals the ability to create profiles…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes technology can be used for the greater good. Other times, it’s just a vehicle for sheer stupidity. Case in point: Criminals bragging about their crimes online is becoming something of a trend. Then again, maybe that’s not such a bad thing, if the perps…
By Adriana Lee |
You see (or create) something of interest, so you shoot that sucker for online posterity. But after the upload to YouTube is complete, a slow creeping dread starts to come upon you. You begin to wonder — “Can I get this back? Or is this forever…
By Adriana Lee |
Canadian Netflix subscribers have a happy new year to look forward to, thanks to a Warner deal that pulls in quite a load of popular content. In January 2013, our neighbors to the North will be able to stream TV programs like The Vampire Diaries,…
By Adriana Lee |
Looks like some headway is being made to refresh the stale old pay-TV model: Dish Network is said to be in talks with networks like MTV about making their live content available via an online-only package. Industry pundits are closely watching this situation, because if…
By Adriana Lee |
Folks, we’ve reached a milestone: For the first time ever, people are more likely to access Internet videos on their TVs than their computers, notes The Wall Street Journal‘s AllThingsD blog. Last year, says consumer-tracking service NPD, the figures told a different tale: PCs accounted for 48…
By Adriana Lee |
One of the best things about Amazon Prime, apart from the super speedy shipping, is the ubiquity of its entertainment streaming options. And one of the worst things about it is the limited selection of its free online content. Well, if you’re a sports fan, documentary…
By Adriana Lee |
Sometimes we see a vid that makes us snort-laugh so hard, milk shoots out of our noses. Or one that utterly breaks our hearts. Or sets our inner outrage seething and bubbling over. We all know a viral video when we see one, but how…
By Adriana Lee |
Tracking YouTube’s all-time most popular videos is like taking snapshots of what people are into at various points in time and taking a temperature reading of our modern culture. And I’ll tell you what: According to this list, we’re running hot — particularly when it comes…
By Adriana Lee |
Amazon giveth, and Amazon taketh away… at least if you have a jailbroken iPad. When the news hit earlier that the Amazon Instant Video iPad app debuted in the Apple App Store, the collective happy dance from Amazon Prime-wielding iPadders was almost palpable. But for…
By Adriana Lee |
Chances are, if you’re a long-term YouTube user or a fanatic (whether watcher or creator), you probably noticed that videos tend to get stuck at 301 views for a period of time before going on to greatness (or not). Is this a glitch? Some sort…
By Roy Choi |
Amazon announced today they have made an agreement with MGM to add hundreds of classic movies and TV shows for Amazon Prime’s Instant Video library. This brings the total number of available videos to more than 18,000 movies and TV episodes all available to stream…
By Joey Davidson |
The Xbox 360 has now joined the ranks of the PlayStation 3, Kindle Fire, Roku and capable TVs with its new ability to stream Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The Amazon Prime app on the 360 will make use of the system’s optional Kinect add-on.…
By Adriana Lee |
If you’re a Netflix subscriber hitting up the service on your computer recently, you may have noticed the company’s slick new browser-based vid player. If not, you’ll want to take it for a spin, now that it has gotten a luscious new makeover. Some of…
By Mark Hearn |
On Monday, LG announced its new cloud storage solution, LG Cloud. Aside from an uninspired name, the Korea-based tech giant’s new storage service will offer users an almost industry standard free 5GB of storage space, with owners of LG smart TVs and smartphones receiving a…
By Adriana Lee |
One of the biggest factors in choosing an entertainment streaming service is the size of its catalog of content. So it’s disappointing when one of the big players gets caught inflating its numbers. According to Fast Company, Amazon’s pants are on fire when it boasted…
By Adriana Lee |
According to the official YouTube blog, the site is so fired up about its popular 3D beta experiment that it’s now letting everyone with short 2D 1080p videos convert them automatically: Today we’re expanding the beta to all of you by adding automatic 3D conversion for…
By Brandon Russell |
Netflix wants to rub shoulders with channels like HBO, Showtime and Starz, a new report suggests. According to Reuters, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has secretly been meeting with U.S. cable companies to discuss a deal that would see the streaming service offered alongside traditional networks,…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a new job listing from Amazon, it appears that the e-commerce giant is looking to get into producing its own original video content. GigaOm stumbled across some new job postings from Amazon that hint that the retailer is looking to expand the reach of…
By Sean P. Aune |
There’s another change to YouTube subscriber counts coming this week that may leave some content producers less than thrilled: The removal of deleted accounts. Last month YouTube started adjusting subscriber counts, one of the most important metrics for how successful a YouTube producer is, by…
By Killian Bell |
Following its launch in the U.K. and Ireland earlier this week, Netflix has plans to introduce multiple “personality profiles” to its music streaming service that would allow everyone in the house to have their own login. That means that each user can tailor the service to…
