The battle for the best Netflix experience in your living room rages on. Sony announced today that Playstation 3 owners will no longer need to use a disc to access Netflix’s streaming service starting October 18, and the console’s Netflix …
Sony announced its Google TV-powered Internet TV family in New York tonight, as well as a Blu-ray player with Google TV built-in.
The company has four Google TV sets on the way at 24-inches ($599), 32-inches ($799.99), 40-inches ($999), and …
Veebeam, the DEMOgod winning startup that has developed a way to easily stream content from your computer to your HDTV wirelessly, has snagged another $6 million in the first part of a two-part second funding round.
As I’ve written previously, …
SundaySky, a company that generates sales videos for e-commerce, real estate and travel sites, announced today it has raised $9 million in its second round of funding.
SundaySky produces interactive videos for various e-commerce products on sites like Overstock.com to …
Redux, a platform for watching videos online, has raised $1 million in a third round of funding. Existing investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Alsop Louie Partners led the round, according to a filing with the SEC.
The site, which allows …
Acquiring TechCrunch was certainly AOL’s biggest announcement today, but the company didn’t stop there: This afternoon, news spread that AOL has also purchased Thing Labs — creator of the Brizzly social media reader — for an undisclosed amount, PaidContent reports.…
All of a sudden, the Apple TV seems a lot less appealing. Confirming our report from yesterday, Roku just announced that its video streaming set-top boxes will have access to Hulu Plus this fall.
Additionally, Hulu announced that it will …
Not that this comes as a huge surprise, but it looks like owners of Roku’s streaming video box may soon have access to content from Hulu, according to two of Hulu’s content partners who spoke to Dan Rayburn from Business …
Netflix may soon offer a subscription plan specifically geared towards streaming video, according to a short blog post by CEO Reed Hastings. The company also announced today that it has landed a content deal with NBC Universal that will allow …
The past few weeks have been good to Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh (pictured right with YouTube CEO Chad Hurley), who created the YouTube Instant site earlier this month and was then famously offered a job at YouTube. Aboukhadijeh announced on …
Over the past few months, live video startup Justin.tv has been inching towards bringing live video broadcasting capabilities to the iPhone. In March, it released an iPhone application for watching, but not broadcasting, videos. Two weeks ago, it launched an …
Metabeam is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Conviva, a company focused on optimizing live video streams online, announced today that it has snagged $15M in funding.
With the growing importance of live video streams, Conviva’s technology offers peace of mind for content providers by reducing stream issues …
Veebeam is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Bitbop is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.…
Video streaming start-up Boxee unleashed a flood of news today regarding its set-top Boxee Box: It’s now available for pre-order exclusively on Amazon, it’s launching internationally in November, and most intriguingly, the company has dumped Nvidia’s Tegra 2 platform in …
Contour is introducing a hands-free video camera today that can mark your location as it records high-definition video.
The ContourGPS video camera has global positioning system (GPS) navigation built into it. The camera, which comes with goggles attached, is targeted …
Online video platform Ooyala announced today that it has snagged $22 million in funding from new and existing investors. The round was over-subscribed, and the company expects to land another funding slice within 60 days from over-eager investors.
The company …
Plex is media center software, from a startup of the same name, which integrates video content from local and online sources. Thus far, Plex has only been available for Mac OS X and iOS (for iPad, iPhone, iPod). But today …
After months of speculation, Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally revealed the new and improved Apple TV today. It has a lot going for it, including a low $99 price, redesigned hardware, and access to streaming media from the iTunes store.…
