Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5

With Microsoft planning to end support for its Silverlight video plugin by 2021, Netflix has begun to shift towards using HTML5 for video playback.

Boxee TV (AKA Cloud DVR): Like paying to be a beta tester (review)

Within five minutes of turning on the Boxee TV, I was ready to return it.

Telly, formerly TwitVid, wants to find videos you’ll love — now with 7M users

After relaunching as a social video network more than a year ago, Telly is now focusing even more on video discovery with the launch of My Telly.

Pulse’s jump into video channels sets a new standard for digital magazine apps

Pulse, a customized news aggregation service for mobile devices, is adding support for video content, the company announced today.

Most video aggregation/curation services I’ve experienced are either really good at collecting content that can be viewed elsewhere, or they are …

Showyou 3.0: Now with better video discovery and sharing for the iPad

After months of hard labor, Remixation, creator of the popular video discovery app Showyou, has released a new version of the app that works just as well for social media abstainers as it does for Facebook and Twitter users.

Showyou …

AOL bets big on video with more than 15 original web series

Not to be outdone by Google, AOL on Monday announced it will launch 15 new original web video series produced by or starring celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Heidi Klum.

We also found out Monday that Google has put up …

PlayLater: Finally, a DVR for Web video

MediaMall, the company behind the popular PlayOn video streaming service, is today launching a new service, PlayLater, that lets you download streaming video from any website to view later. Yes, it’s effectively a DVR for online video.

PlayLater seems like …