Media giants and startups -- not to mention pirates -- are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.READ»
1 Family Guy
You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids."
2 The Office
The show is also among NBC's ...READ»
Last month we reported that a new cable channel called Epix was going to try to steal thunder from heavyweights like HBO and Showtime by also offering all their movies online at EpixHD.com. The channel, which is being offered first on ...READ»
How can I watch satellite direct TV on my computer? You
are not alone if you find yourself asking this question. In fact, there
are many people who are searching for an answer to this question. A
quick check at Yahoo Overture ...READ»
This week we've seen the new 27-inch iMac compared to a television, and we've watched Windows 7 get all TV-happy with in-home streaming. But it was in over a decade ago that Apple ventured to show us how TVs and PCs would eventually ...READ»
After the rumors, patents and supposition, Apple's just updated its lineup of computers and included a surprise: a 27-inch TV monster. Okay, it's actually an iMac, but it's quite definitely a move in the televisual direction.
Today's ...READ»
Sir Groovy, a just-launched iTunes-like music store, lets TV and movie producers browse a library of pre-approved songs they can license and use in their media. Instead of first choosing a song and then securing a license to use it, ...READ»
Web-streaming TV is a tech on the upswing, and old hands like Netflix and Blockbuster are grabbing on quick. Now Samsung's joining in too, cutting out the set-top box middleman and bringing streaming content directly to your ...READ»
We'll address the gigantic sell-out that is Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show (brought to you buy Windows 7) in a moment. But the more immediate news is that the Windows 7 party-people are going to have to ...READ»
Today Toshiba announced an ultra-powerful LCD TV powered by the same chip as the Sony PS3. It's backed by a 3 TB hard disk, and can play and record up to eight different television channels at once. It'll also cost 1 million yen ...READ»
Good-bye, consoles! Steve Perlman says his OnLive can stream video games over the Internet. Whether it succeeds or not, this will be the future of gaming.READ»
Frog Design is releasing an iPod app that allows you to talk to your friends about shows as you watch them. Called TVChatter, the app allows you to follow a Twitter stream about your favorite show and respond to other viewers with ...READ»
A new report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers has revealed something amazing: The U.K. has become the first major economy to see advertisers spending more on internet adverts than traditional TV ones.The ...READ»
Today Yahoo! began a $100 million advertising push with the following commercial, which the company says is titled "Anthem." Can Yahoo win the search-ad wars with inundation? That's a lot of humanity for one ad: a lot of colors, a ...READ»
ESPN announced today that it is partnering with a Wharton School initiative to find solutions to the growing list of challenges presented by digital media. (Below, the Wharton campus.) The Wharton group, which is called the ...READ»
We're all familiar with Intel's tiny, low-power Atom CPU--without it the netbook revolution probably wouldn't have happened. But Intel has just pulled the covers off its next-gen Atom system on a chip, and it has a new target device: ...READ»
Steve Jobs famously poo-poohed the idea of Apple adopting Blu-ray, describing the technology as a "bag of hurt." But with hot rumors of an imminent iMac redesign, the Blu-ray drive issue is again in the spotlight. Is Apple about to ...READ»
This fall, Cadillac will be running a new TV spot entitled "Re-ignition." The commercial is meant to show consumers that Cadillac and its woebegone parent are ready to come back into the luxury fray. Instead, it does something ...READ»
Yesterday we discussed the prospect of a new Apple TV. But why watch TV on Apple's schedule when you can build your own, and have twice as many features?
If you're a Mac die-hard, follow MacWorld's DIY Mac Mini media center project. ...READ»
AT&T, your friendly ISP and cellphone provider, just became an online TV-Show and Movie network with the introduction of a new Web site. But it's not in competition against Hulu--thanks to an agreement with Hulu.READ»
Plasma televisions are already on the outs with consumers due to their energy-sucking tendencies, meanwhile LCD screens have closed the gap on picture quality and are more energy efficient. But as many TV buffs know, organic ...READ»
