Celebrity gossip queen Perez Hilton said he’s unlikely to post videos on YouTube any longer and instead will probably host them on his own site, Perezhilton.com. The blogger and the biggest video-sharing service are feuding after YouTube pulled some of…
Retailers’ price-cutting on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc players may be aided by manufacturing costs that are likely to drop below the $200-per-unit threshold next year. Amazon.com, the world’s biggest Internet retailer, cut the price of the Sony Blu-ray BDP-S300…
The player: Andrew Simon, chief executive officer of HDNet Fights The play: Simon was hired by HDNet Chairman and Co-founder Mark Cuban in October to boost the company’s visibility and subscriber base from its current level of about 9 million…
AT&T’s U-verse Adds Eight HD Channels AT&T Inc.’s U-verse Internet television service added eight high-definition channels, bringing its total to more than 40. U-verse, which was started by the largest U.S. phone company last year, had about 125,000 subscribers as…
Lifetime will stream the full-length episodes of each of its four new reality series on Mylifetime.com starting Dec. 29, in advance of the Jan. 4 on-air debuts of the shows. In addition, Yahoo TV will carry full-length episodes of the…
Late Night, Directors Challenge Writers Guild Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Kimmel all have made the move to return to the airwaves on Jan. 2, putting the Writers Guild of America in a tense spot,…
Online video technology provider ROO appointed Kaleil Isaza Tuzman as chairman and CEO. He will start Jan. 9, succeeding Robert Petty, who will stay on as vice chairman of the board and founder. Mr. Isaza Tuzman currently is president and…
Online video-sharing site Veoh said it now draws 21.5 million unique visitors per month, up from 2.5 million at the start of the year. That’s an increase of 20% each month and 760% year over year, Veoh said. Also, Veoh…
Viacom is teaming up with Microsoft in a content and advertising alliance valued at $500 million. Microsoft will license long- and short-form content from Viacom’s cable networks and movie studios for use on MSN, Xbox 360 and other platforms. The…
Digital television company Backchannelmedia plans to test a new technology that lets consumers purchase goods and services seen on television using their remote control linked to a consumer’s personal Web site, JackMyers.com reported today. Backchannelmedia, an ad serving and direct…