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UltraViolet is now available via WB's 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Green Lantern', but the cloud based digital copy system will do more once studios makes it easier to consumer to access their UltraViolet movie collection

While the music industry is still concentrating on legal and technical ways to stop piracy, legal streaming services like Spotify seems to have had the most success against piracy by competing directly with pirates

Amazon launches Kindle Fire, an Android based tablet that could threaten the iPad 2's status as king of the tablets.

Everyone has done it. Downloading YouTube videos seems to be no different to time-shifting on TiVo or DVRs, but it seems the major music labels are not happy people are doing it, and have sued downloader website TubeFire

New study shows people are increasingly using tablets and smartphones to watch full length movies, instead of using portable DVD players

UltraViolet coming via Warner's 'Horrible Bosses' and 'Green Latern', and access to the UV cloud will be done through Flixster. Also, HBO Go is coming to game consoles and other Internet connected devices

Zediva is ordered to shut down as, in the judge's opinion, it violated copyright and is a threat to traditional video-on-demand services

Spotify is set to launch in the US, and you can already sign up to request an invite. Is this the end of music piracy as we know it?

UltraViolet licensing has begun, as the new format that aims to tie together the physical and digital is set to take off later this year

Blu-ray will beat DVD by 2014, but digital is the future, says consulting firm Futuresource

Hulu's launch of their Facebook Connect feature bombs, as users report being able to access other user's accounts due to programming error

Sony movies were removed en masse last Friday from Netflix's digital streaming service, thanks to an old agreement that now seems shortsighted due to Netflix's surging popularity

Netflix finally comes to Android, but not for all phones due to standardization issues

People are buying less discs, but it's probably because the new releases haven't been as good, the DEG reports

Six major Hollywood studios sue Zediva, who allows users to rent DVDs and then have the DVD streamed to their homes digitally

Redbox may link up with Hulu Plus, an analyst with Merriman Capital believes

Following the White House's proposal to make streaming a felony, music industry expert Moses Avalon hopes the new laws will be used to curb all speech on P2P

You can now rent movies on Facebook, as Warner Bros. test out renting The Dark Knight to millions of Facebook users

A new service aims to solve the problem of cross-browser and phone compatibility for online video

Intel Insider is a new Video-On-Demand service, but users will have to put up with a new hardware based DRM

Logitech has responded to rumors that it had been asked to halt production of the Logitech Revue saying Google never made such a request

Apple said last week that it fulfilled its prediction of selling one million Apple TV devices before Christmas

A new rumor is floating around that Google is planning a major movie service through YouTube that should arrive to us in the early part of 2011

Kaleidescape has made good on its promise of launching the first Blu-ray server by releasing its new 100-disc Blu-ray disc vault

The Boxee Box has just received another firmware update that brings with it a large number of bug fixes and improvements to streaming

Roku has just released a firmware update for its HD XR line of multimedia boxes that fixes various bugs, has playback optimizations, and

MMC has announced the launch of its latest digital property, TVLine.com The new which will focus on consumer TV news

DivX just announced the release of DivX HiQ, a technology that allows DivX to replace the standard Flash web video player by using the built in

YouTube has decided to remove the 15 minute time limit on uploaded videos starting with members who have never

Netflix landed a licensing deal that will allow them to stream ABC and Disney content for more shows and movies like Hannah Montana and Brothers & Sisters

OnLive and Vizio have started a partnership to offer up a subscription-based movie streaming service next year

Netflix wants to partner with studios so they can offer their users current episodes of prime-time television shows and they are willing

Google has acquired Widevine, a company that provides DRM tools, so they can deliver content both online and on TVs

YouTube has a new ad format called TrueView that lets viewers skip over ads after viewing for more than 5 seconds

OnLive, the Internet-based gaming service launched in June with the promise of instantly streaming games to just about any

Microsoft recently held meetings with several networks to discuss licensing television content for a new Web-based TV

Boxee has released its first firmware update for the Boxee Box that includes over 50 bug fixes and a whole slew of improvements

Panasonic and Vudu have announced that the 2010 line of Viera Cast-enabled Blu-ray disc players will offer instant streaming of Vudu's HD movie library

In an effort to catch up with Apple & Blackberry, Dish has released a Android remote app to help promote its TV Everywhere service

Western Digital on Tuesday announced it has added new online services to its lineup of WD TV media players allowing them to rent or buy new movies

TiVo this morning unveiled a new iPad remote control app for its Premiere DVR set-top boxes

Netflix is introducing a streaming-only service priced at $7.99 a month but it comes with drawbacks to other services

Cineplex Entertainment, a Canadian-based movie company, has announced a new Download To Own and a

Auto HD For YouTube is a extension for Google Chrome, allowing you to automatically set your video quality to whatever default setting you choose, and more

Vudu has announced that its streaming movie content will now be accessible from Sony's PS3 gaming console

Hulu has just announced that the price for the "Plus" premium subscription service will be lowered by $2 from its current

Dish announced that it has plans to start selling Google TV packages for the Revue set top box allowing access to internet content

The big 4 television networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, have now banned Google from viewing free episodes of TV shows on their website

Sling Media announced today that its popular SlingPlayer Mobile software is now available for Windows Phone 7 devices allowing streaming over Wifi or

Oppo's latest internet connected high definition DVD player will support Blu-ray 3D content, Netflix's Watch Instantly service, and Blockbuster

Roku will begin sending out a major firmware update today to its Internet players that will polish up the interface and the way it operates

Hulu Plus, a premium Web-based video streaming service, is now available to the public so you can stream to your iPhone and/or PS3

Ever since Google announced the "WebM" video format, they have been slowly transcoding the entire YouTube library and they are getting close

Skyfire browser "WAS" coming for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch and it can transcode flash to HTML5 video

Wal-Mart and VUDU have teamed up with Disney to throw in a free digital copy of Toy Story 3 with each purchase of

Amazon expands the available content on its Disc+ On Demand service to over 10,000 titles to entice people who suffer from instant

Netflix announced today that its windows phone 7 app is now available in the marketplace and its free

Redbox announces that they will start a Redbox branded video streaming service sometime in 2011 with

Roku has just announced that PlayOn-compatible channels have been removed and can no longer

Adobe has added support for HTML5 H.264-encoded video to its Photoshop.com photo and video sharing site and adds

Western Digital has launched its latest media-streaming device, the WD TV Live Hub. that offers 1TB of storage as well as support for

In order to support the free Hulu service, Hulu Plus was created but do to a slow start they have now cut the price in half

Boxee announced today that the Boxee Box will be shipping November 10 for those that pre-ordered through either Amazon or

People looking to jailbreak their new Apple TV can now do so with GreenpisOn and a new command line tool called PwnageTool

Panasonic has just introduced what it says is the smallest DVR with both a Blu-ray writer and a 320GB hard drive

By the end of the year, its rumored that Netflix will start a streaming only package allowing customers to

Valve just announced that there is now over 30 million active accounts for its streaming platform that delivers games and

The folks over at GadgetWhore have discovered a option located deep in the advanced settings that allows you to play Hulu on your new Google TV

The Nintendo Wii & the Sony PS3 can both now stream Netflix movies without the need for a disc

Roku has gone out of its comfort zone of online only and will be launching the Netgear Roku XD Player at Best Buy and

Starting October 18th, Netflix on the PS3 will stream some content in 1080p resolution with 5.1-channel surround audio and

Vudu just announced it has updated its set-top boxes with software that will bring new features.

Today Sony unveiled their new Internet TV powered by Google TV giving you the ability to watch HDTV, install applications, and surf

AT&T announced that you will be able to use your XBOX 360 as a U-Verse receiver and your Windows Phone 7 too when U-Verse mobile comes out

The Logitech Revue, which works with Google TV, will not give users access to over-the-air TV broadcasts and it also being blocked by a popular streaming service

The online gaming service is now free after many customers were disappointed with what their $15 got them and that was just access to

The three major movie studios are considering a deal with cable operators to offer recently released movies to viewers before they hit DVD

Google give a quick update on their soon to be released Google TV noting that companies are more than inquisitive about becoming content providers

The remote app that was first made for the original iPhone undergoes an update that makes it compatible with the extra screen area of the iPad, Apple TV, and the

TiVo announced today that it has teamed with Hulu to provide TiVo® Premiere DVR subscribers with access to Hulu Plus

I assume its going to be trial run in Canada first but, Netflix may offer a streaming only package that cost around $8 that allows you to stream Netflix movies

Today Roku has announced a new line of HD streaming video players, the Roku XD and the Roku XDS, which retail for $80 and

Netflix is expanding its service beyond US borders and has officially started a streaming only movie service in Canada for only $8 a month

OnLive opened up Wi-Fi play which allows the gaming service to be streamed rather having to be hard wired free

Google has announced it has given Gmail's video chat a small make over by adding some image enhancements to the service and increased the

The UFL announced today a partnership with Boxee and the release of a customized UFL Boxee App that will allow streaming of live UFL football games

Warner Bros. has decided not to participate in Apple's 99 cent iTunes TV rentals because of price and how it may affect

PlayOn is a program that runs on your PC giving you access to a wide range of Internet content on your TV such as Hulu, Netflix, and

YouTube began a limited two-day test of live streamed video on Monday, partially fulfilling years of rumors that the Google-owned service would go into the streaming market

Today Microsoft announced the immediate availability of the $99 Lifecam Studio webcam that has a 1080p sensor thats double the size of your typical

Netflix has reached an agreement with Nu Image/Millennium that allows them to stream first-run theatrical movies like Rambo and

Google has been feverishly working with other hardware and software to finalize its new TV service so it can be out by the fall of 2010

Google is rumored to start a streaming movie rental service with a wide selection of newly released movies to compliment its Google TV

Roku announced today that it is dropping the prices of its line-up of set-top boxes just days before Apple is rumored to showcase its Apple TV box

Starting today Netflix customers can watch the “Watch Instantly” library on their iPhones and iPod touches

Dish is rumored to be yanking its "Beta" tag off its new DishOnline.com service this week bringing streaming content to all of its

Netflix subscribers hoping to stream HBO programming may have a long time to wait as HBO just designed a version of HBO Go