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home entertainment

Building B/Sezmi One True Set Top Box Aims to Kill TV as You Know It

Last week, we had a demo of the TV godbox we reported on last summer by Building B—now Sezmi. If anything, their claims have actually gotten bolder: They're promising the "first complete TV 2.0 solution" that rolls up traditional TV with movies, on-demand, DVR and internet video, all presented seamlessly to viewers. That's a tall order, and moreover, an extremely complicated one. More »

11:11 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By matt buchanan
6,144 views, 13 comments

Latest by proxops-pete: I'm here visiting my in-laws in Korea and they already have this! My brother-in-law's cable service provider, Mega Internet. It has Internet-based (off freakin' fast 32 Mbit/sec!) on-demand TV and movies and all kinds of media goodness!! more »

home entertainment

Warner Bros. to Release Movies for Apple TV and On Demand Same Day as DVD

The format war over, and Blu-ray safely enthroned as the victor, Warner can now turn its sights beyond—to downloads and the infinite format war. Time Warner's chief executive announced today that Warner Bros. will release movies for on-demand systems like Comcast's and Apple TV on the same day they are released on DVD from now on. More »

5:26 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By matt buchanan
2,869 views, 24 comments

warner bros.

Watch Full Episodes of Friends, Scooby Doo and The Batman Online for Free

Warner Bros. is jumping into the online video arena next month with a pair of sites, thewb.com and kidswb.com, which will show full episodes of its biggest series, like Friends and Smallville on the former, and stuff like Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo and Batman (hopefully Paul Dini's brilliant and amazing original animated series, not The Mediocre Batman) on the latter. It'd probably have made more sense for them to join Hulu, but Warner's probably not keen on splitting the ad dollars. If there's enough content, it could become a real destination, but we're guessing you'll still have to go to YouTube for "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves." [Yahoo]

3:17 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By matt buchanan
7,902 views, 14 comments

Latest by Worf: Is this some US only thing again? Quit tempting the rest of the world with your legal video options while we have ot use BitTorrent to grab our shows! more »

internet

10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame

The most consistent rationale for ISPs to throttle p2p applications or charge by the byte is that a small minority of users drain a vastly disproportionate amount of bandwidth, like the planet-raping aliens in Independence Day. Om Malik pulls a few of these numbers out of Arbor Networks' CTO, who develops all the traffic management tools your ISP probably uses, so while there's a conflict of interest (portents of internet doom sell more stuff) they have the data. Ten percent of subscribers consume 80 percent of bandwidth, a super-leeching 0.5 percent swallow 40 percent of bandwidth, and the rest like your mom, 80 percent, sip less than 10 percent. But p2p isn't the culprit. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By matt buchanan
52,341 views, 58 comments

Latest by mendo: I've used [www.myfonts.com] but I didn't find a perfect match. Anyway the font Gizmodo uses is something very similar to "Captain comic" [www.myfonts.com] more »

south park

Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)

Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get right: Streams are fast and vid quality is solid; every episode, from first to most recent is available (with one exception); and newer ones are uncensored. Yep, you actually get to hear your favorite childrens scream "What the fuck is going on?" in the Britney ep. Major point of suck: ads. More »

11:45 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By matt buchanan
120,371 views, 62 comments

Latest by TofuHead1: I've gotten my fix via Stansdad.com for quite some time now. No ads, although the load time can be a few minutes or never for some episodes. Downloading episodes is simpler if you think in advance. Either way, torrents and sharing more »

macflix

Netflix Watch Instantly Online Video Finally Landing on Macs

As part of its earnings call, Netflix dropped the bit they intend to finally launch their all-you-can-eat Watch Instantly online video service for Macs later this year. The only holdup is/has been the lack of a Mac-native DRM system that Hollywood approves as sufficiently draconian. Hurray! Sorta. Mostly. [Electronista]

11:50 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By matt buchanan
8,649 views, 33 comments

netflix unlimited

Netflix Online Video Becomes All-You-Eat Tomorrow; Can It Compete With iTunes Video Rentals?

We had heard that unlimited online viewing had been granted to select Netflix subscribers last month, and suspected it'd get a full rollout soon. Well, soon is tomorrow—as the AP notes, a day before MacWorld, where Apple is expected to unveil its video rental-killer rendition of iTunes. More »

9:14 PM on Sun Jan 13 2008
By matt buchanan
15,132 views, 48 comments

1080p instantly

MatrixStream 1080p Instant HD Streamer Now Searching for Content

Gaze into the future with us, foreshadowed by a company called MatrixStream. These wizards teased us with their 1080p HD streaming box 18 months ago, bragging about how it lets you instantly watch 1080p videos over a broadband connection. Fast-forward to today, and now they're announcing the streaming of a grisly-sounding zombie movie from 2006 called Shadow: Dead Riot. Such is the business of walled-garden TV networking. So as the company waits for the content to catch up, their 1080p on-demand hardware and software sounds like it's enormously powerful. More »

11:05 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Charlie White
3,067 views, 13 comments

Latest by james2000: This box can do live HD broadcast and also 1080p video on demand. In the not very distant future, we will probally consume most of our content from the Internet. more »

wally world

Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices

Honestly, if we hadn't been tipped to this, we probably would've been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart's video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21. More »

4:20 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By matt buchanan
3,858 views, 12 comments

Latest by SomeoneUKno: Looks like somebody is gonna miss out on their christmas bonus... more »

xbox 360

ESPN and NCAA Sports Hit Xbox Live Marketplace

Microsoft and ESPN have struck a deal to sell NCAA basketball and football games, the X Games and shows like Madden Nation in the Live Marketplace. Standard-def NCAA games are $3; HD versions run $4.50, and they go live "within 48 hours" of the end of the game. ESPN content is $2 for standard def and $3 for HD. [Yahoo!/AP]

1:15 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,012 views, 3 comments

huluhoop

Hulu Review: What It Is and What It Should Be (Good, and Better)


We've been playing around with News Corp. and NBC's answer to internet video, Hulu, for a couple of days, letting the low-traffic, buttery smooth launch day stretch out more into real time and real traffic conditions before we let loose with our judgment. Let's get this out of the way: YouTube killer it ain't. Same genus, different species. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Nov 2 2007
By Matt Buchanan
10,832 views, 18 comments

no deal

NBC Wanted to "Experiment" with $2.99 TV Show Pricepoint on iTunes, Cut of Apple Hardware Sales

Nearly two months after the fizzle out between NBC Universal and Apple during contract negotiations, NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker spills what some of the contested terms were. Most surprising is that NBC asked for a cut of hardware sales. Not the fact that they wanted a cut, but that they actually asked for it—they'd have more luck asking the devil himself to reverse whatever deal Steve inked with him. (Though handing content providers a slice isn't unprecedented.) Also, that pricing "flexibility" NBC pissed and moaned so loudly about was what we all expected: ""We wanted to take one show, it didn't matter which one it was, and experiment and sell it for $2.99." So in short, it was all about money. More »

9:00 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,568 views, 33 comments

Latest by mbodey: i find it very odd that a group of, presumably, informed tech consumers would be so pissed at NBC for being "greedy" when these same people are getting completely ripped off by apple. "I won't support NBC anymore because they're more »

hoolabaloo

Hulu Private Beta Goes Live Tonight; Will YouTube Blink?

The bastard child of News Corp. and NBC's love-hate relationship with GooTube, Hulu, is making its public debut this week, with the private beta going live tonight. The log-in form's already up, but those of us at Giz who've signed up for the beta haven't gotten our invites in the mail yet, so we haven't stuck our foot in the front door. Hulu's YouTube-killing voodoo is supposed be the fact that it's going to be awash in full-length episodes of TV shows, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Pretender to Heroes, along with movies (The Breakfast Club!) and content from Sony, MGM and others, lojacked with "25 percent as much advertising as broadcast norms." NewTeeVee has a thorough rundown laying out most of what you'd want to know before sending your email address into the corporate mystery chute. [GigaOM]

3:40 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,281 views, 14 comments

Latest by coolrepublica: Time magazine has an embedded video from Hulu. You can see what the resolution looks like. It is not bad. Actually it is very good. It's an episode of the Simpson. [time-blog.com] And people who want to get an invite, I would more »

yes, plz

Netflix Considering Distributing Movies Via Consoles, HD Disc Players and Set-Top Boxes

During its mostly positive Q3 earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings dropped word that "in terms of enabling the viewing of online content on the television screen, we are exploring a variety of options, including Internet connected, high definition DVD players, internet connected game consoles, and dedicated internet set tops, with a variety of partners, trying to understand the best ways to provide inexpensive viewing of online content on the television." Hey Reed, we're with you 100 percent—we even laid out exactly how you should do it. You can thank us by actually making it, which should also help shake the doubters on your long-term prospects. No, no, it's cool, we're here to help. [Gamasutra via Gaming Today]

4:40 PM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,251 views, 15 comments

Latest by ClackyJ: The Wii already has a browser on it. Why not make the "Watch It Now" function work with Opera? Plus, that way I can use the Wii's finger pointer to pick the noses of my favorite movie and television stars... more »

nyt pulpbite

Pogue Sees Eye-to-Eye With Vudu Video-on-Demand Box (Verdict: Mostly Great)

Pushing out his review a bit before the official embargo lifted last night, our favorite Times wonder-reporter put the video store in a box, Vudu, through its paces and walked away mostly happy with the experience. Brownie points for: picture quality, slick five-button remote, pay-per-flick, and truly instant viewing. Buts: More »

1:00 PM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,278 views, 4 comments

update

NBC Jumps Ship to Amazon Unbox

After the he said/she said BS between Apple and NBC over the last few days, we're kind of glad to see some kind of resolution: NBC's taking its business to Amazon Unbox, which will give NBC "greater flexibility in the pricing and packaging of video downloads." For the time being though, shows still seem to fetch $1.99 on Unbox. But there are a couple of other interesting tidbits in the Times article worth noting. More »

11:09 PM on Tue Sep 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
7,992 views, 51 comments

bandwagons

Sony Planning Video Download Services, Company-Wide DRM

Days after announcing the imminent death of its Connect service, the WSJ reports that Sony's planning to leverage the PS3, PSP and their Bravia line to jump into the video download market. In fact, Connect was probably killed in order to concentrate on the IP video market—and the article implies that the move was just the tip of the corporate restructuring iceberg in the name of IP video. More »

9:51 AM on Tue Sep 4 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,843 views, 15 comments

video wars

Building B Promises the One True Set-Top Box, Without Wires, PCs or Details

The do-it-all set-top box market's about to get even more crowded, the newest kid on the block coming from start-up Building B. Their hook: wireless delivery of traditional TV content in HD, plus VOD and web video without a PC. The catch: They're not so forthcoming with the details in regards to the tech it's using for delivery or prices for either the box or the service. More »

1:40 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,536 views, 2 comments

Latest by atomriot: maybe they intend to use the fon community??? heh more »