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digital video stories: 22 news summaries

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Best Buy Noses Into Online Movie Market

Streaming service will come pre-loaded on gadgets

Nov 3, 09 10:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Best Buy has partnered with online provider CinemaNow to develop a movie downloading service that will come preloaded on the bulk of its Internet-capable electronics. The move follows a 13% slump in DVD sales for the year that has had the company casting about for a new revenue stream. It... More »

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digital downloads • digital video • consumer electronics • Best Buy • online movie rentals • retail businesses • DVDs • CinemaNow

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 TV Viewers Migrate to Web 

Americans are more and more likely to have watched shows online

Oct 26, 09 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - More and more Americans are watching television exclusively online and ditching their cable or satellite service. One-quarter of families have tuned in online, and 25% of those viewers have watched a full-length show on a computer—a 67% jump just since 2007. “The idea that you come home and... More »

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entertainment • television • Internet • cable TV • satellite TV • online • digital video • Hulu • consumer electronics

TELEVISION

DVR Viewers Give Ratings Boost to Grey's, Others

Execs hope these watchers will eventually translate into ad dollars

Oct 14, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV networks dismayed at low ratings early in the season are getting a ray of hope in the form of the once-feared DVR. Sure, ad buyers won’t pay out when a viewer watches Grey’s Anatomy on TiVo, but that and other shows are gaining a massive audience... More »

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Grey's Anatomy • DVR • digital video • TV ratings • TiVo • television advertising • season premiere • House • television program • FlashForward

 Computer Whiz 
 Records Life 
 as 'E-Memory' 

Microsoft researcher saves audio, video experiences on hard drive

Sep 25, 09 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Philip K. Dick, eat your heart out. Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell is recording his entire life with video and audio equipment and storing it on a hard drive to keep it safe, CNN reports. The 350 gigabytes of data—which include scans of receipts and PDFs of every Web site... More »

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digital video • Philip K Dick • hard drives • computer

(Newser) - A  group of media companies has joined forces with major advertisers to challenge Nielsen's dominance in TV ratings measurement, the Financial Times reports. The firms involved—including NBC, Time Warner, Disney, and Procter & Gamble—aim to have their rival audience measurement scheme up and running by next month,... More »

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television • Time Warner • NBC • Disney • Nielsen • Nielsen Ratings • digital video • TV ratings • viewing habits • television advertising

Pirate Bay Launches New YouTube Clone

VideoBay streams content, without that pesky copyright stuff

Jun 30, 09 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - If YouTube's limits on copyrighted material have exhausted you, the Swedish hackers who call themselves Pirate Bay have a solution: VideoBay, a new streaming video site that's utterly indifferent to intellectual property laws. The new service, rolled out just as Pirate Bay was sold to a Swedish software company that... More »

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YouTube • Web 2.0 • video • hackers • digital video • The Pirate Bay • streaming content

(Newser) - A YouTuber has unearthed the only footage of famed early 20th-century dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in existence, the New Yorker reports—sort of. Actually, it’s more like he created it himself. “These films are animations of photographs,” Christian Comte said. “I work as an alchemist in animated... More »

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entertainment • Internet • YouTube • ballet • dance • manipulation • digital video • modern dance • Vaslav Nijinsky

(Newser) - A British National Health Service trust posted a controversial staged video on YouTube showing a teenager giving birth amid a pack of yelling high schoolers as a way to scare girls about pregnancy, reports the Daily Mail. The video shows a teen, played by an actress, giving birth on a... More »

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pregnancy • YouTube • video • National Health Service • digital video • Britain • teen pregnancy • teenager

PRODUCT REVIEW

 Netflix From 
 Web to TV? 
 You've Got 
 Options 

Blu-ray setup, Xbox and custom-built player all serviceable options

Dec 4, 08 3:05 PM CST
(Newser) - For those who disdain DVDs and won’t watch movies on computers, there are perfectly passable devices that get streaming video from Netflix to your TV, Nick Wingfield writes in the Wall Street Journal after testing an LG Blu-ray player, the Xbox game console, and a purpose-built device from Roku.... More »

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Internet • film • Netflix • Xbox • digital video • Blu-ray • Roku • streaming video

Mayor Channels Inner Wonk in 7½-Hour YouTube Speech

San Francisco's Newsom goes in-depth on subjects he'd otherwise trim from annual address

Dec 1, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is living up to his chatty reputation with a 7½-hour state-of-the-city speech—on YouTube. The mayor, who is averse to speaking with the city’s board of supervisors and enamored of policy, will release the detailed address in 45-minute chunks. Why watch, wonders the... More »

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Internet • YouTube • San Francisco • mayor • digital video • speech • Gavin Newsom • State of the City

OPINION

He's a Goofy Dancer,
Not a Prophet of Peace

The combination of image and music is mystical, but not necessarily meaningful

Aug 2, 08 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - No doubt you've seen or heard of the YouTube phenomenon in which Matt Harding dances his way across the world and its cultures, set to a New Age song poem. And no doubt you've heard fans refer to Harding as nothing less than a purveyor of world peace. But please,... More »

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YouTube • dancing • commercials • digital video • Meghan Daum • Matt Harding • Stride chewing gum • multiculturalism

Video Service Could Be Behind Amazon Glitches

Pending TV and movie streaming may be snarling system

Jun 10, 08 2:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon's new digital video service could be behind the glitches that have been plaguing the site, reports the New York Times. The online retailer was knocked offline for two hours last week and suffered sporadic problems yesterday. Analysts believe the company may be rejigging its distribution system ahead of the... More »

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downloads • digital video • Jeff Bezos • video downloads • streaming content • Amazon.com

PRODUCT REVIEW

 New HD Cameras Don't Cut It 

Demands of high-definition video overwhelm these digital cameras

Apr 24, 08 7:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Many digital cameras also shoot video, and two new cameras from Kodak and Panasonic take that feature one step further by adding the capability to shoot high-definition footage. At price tags under $500, a fraction of an HD camcorder, the Kodak EasyShare V1073 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500 would seem too... More »

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Kodak • digital camera • high definition • digital video • Panasonic


Amazon MP3 Sales Aren’t Hurting iTunes

New download service taps into unique demographic

Apr 15, 08 9:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amazon.com’s digital music download store isn’t stealing iTunes customers—the six-month-old service is attracting a new consumer demographic, analysts say. A market research firm found that only 10 percent of Amazon MP3 customers surveyed in February previously bought iTunes music, AppleInsider reports. That’s a “healthy... More »

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iTunes • Apple • digital downloads • digital music • digital video • Amazon MP3 • Amazon.com

Amazon Keeps Building
on Digital Transformation

Firm develops download stores for books, music and movies

Apr 7, 08 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sales of downloadable digital media continue to gain ground on conventional formats—last week, Apple’s iTunes passed Wal-Mart as top US music seller. Not to be outdone, Amazon.com is rapidly expanding its venues for digital Web delivery, the New York Times reports. This year, the company debuted a... More »

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digital downloads • digital music • digital video • Kindle • Amazon.com • Amazon • ebooks

TiVo Wins Patent Suit on Appeal

Court decides that DVRs violated 'time-shifting' patent

Feb 1, 08 3:29 AM CST
(Newser) - TiVo's share price soared after an appeals court ruled that EchoStar Holding and Dish Network had been illegally using TiVo's "time-warp" recording software, the Wall Street Journal reports. TiVo has been trying to expand its business beyond set-top box making and into licensing its technology, which lets users pause,... More »

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television • Dish Network • digital video • EchoStar • TiVo

Comcast, TiVo Team Up
in Boston

National service will roll out later

Jan 22, 08 10:24 AM CST
(Newser) - TiVo and Comcast have rolled out their promised joint service in the Boston area, with national distribution to follow. The service sends TiVo software to Comcast-provided digital video recorders in a first that TiVo hopes to repeat with other cable providers, USA Today reports. TiVo lost hundreds of thousands... More »

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DirecTV • Comcast • Boston • DVR • digital video • TiVo

Japan Hosts Camera Phone Film Festival

48 tiny videos yield intimate close-ups from around the world

Dec 7, 07 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Featuring 48 judge-selected short movies, each of them shot using a camera phone, Japan's Pocket Film Festival marks the dawning of a new era in amateur film making. Without special effects or fancy camera-work, the pocket-flicks, like winners "Thumb Girl" and "Walkers," are all close-up and intimate... More »

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film • cell phones • Japan • digital camera • digital video • camera phones

French Attack Internet Piracy

Move to stem high-tech theft raises worries about civil liberties

Nov 23, 07 8:34 AM CST
(Newser) - French internet pirates, beware. Big Brother is watching. Or, he will be if a three-strikes-and-you’re-out industry proposal backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy moves forward, the Financial Times reports. Under the plan, ISPs would forward data on users illegally sharing files to the government, which could terminate problem internet... More »

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Internet • music downloads • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • piracy • digital video

  eBay's $1.4 Billion Phone Bill

Takes huge write down on overpriced Skype

Oct 2, 07 12:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - eBay's $2.6 billion acquisition of phone service Skype looks like a wrong number, with profits on hold indefinitely. The Wall Street Journal reports eBay will take a $1.4 billion write down on Skype, which  accounts for $90 million of eBay's $1.83 billion in revenue in the third... More »

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social networking • eBay • Vonage • Skype • digital video • Niklas Zennstrom • Michael van Swaaij • write down • revenue • online music • Meg Whitman • PayPal • Joost

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