village voice: Cutthroat Competition for Indie-Film Distributors
(tags: film distribution)

Paramount’s CTO on Why His Studio Is Dumping Blu-ray
(tags: DRM hddvd Bluray)

Akamai Gets Ready for HD Video
(tags: HD video iptv)

$100,000 offered to freely release iPhone unlocking software
(tags: Iphone Apple hacking)

Videohybrid 3.0: I Can’t Believe This Hasn’t Been Banned Yet
(tags: film video interactive.video iptv)

Freedom to Tinker: iPhone Unlocked; Legal Battle Looming?
(tags: iPhone DRM DMCA networkPolitics)

These are the greatest films I ever heard: Ken Russell
(tags: film music soundtrack)

Apple iPhone Tech Talk Debriefing - Part 1
(tags: iPhone development)

SoundExchange drops DRM requirement, webcasters still oppose new deal
(tags: DRM Copyright music Internetradio RIAA)

New DRM scheme will let consumers stream cable TV over home networks
(tags: DRM Cable)

Small webcasters offered royalty deal
(tags: Internetradio RIAA DRM)

Pauline Oliveros: Music: Review:New York Times
(tags: Music)

On2’s CEO Gives His Take On The Adobe Flash Video H.264 Announcement
(tags: Flash Video H.264 Formats+Codecs distribution)

DRM’s Nasty, Hacking Cough
(tags: DRM RIAA)

Laurence Tribe on the First Amendment & Technological Change
(tags: networkPolitics censorship)

DivX Launches Connected, A Media Extender
(tags: settops distribution downloads video)

MTV-RNWK Music Venture: Rhapsody America Expected To Pull In $500K In Q3 Revenue
(tags: Rhapsody music downloads distribution)

Wal-Mart Starts DRM-Free Downloads; Universal, EMI MP3s For 94 Cents
(tags: music distribution DRM downloads)

YouTube Adds Ads
(tags: youtube advertising.technology)

Boing Boing: Flowchart: RIAA Lawsuit Decision Matrix
(tags: RIAA MPAA DRM Copyright)

Adobe Media Player Launch Delayed Until Next Year
(tags: Adobe video distribution downloads DRM)

Apple’s iMovie ’08 Handles AVCHD
Into iMovie –> out to Flash H.264
(tags: iMovie Formats+Codecs)

MTVN to Fold Urge Music Site; Teams Up with Rhapsody
MTV and Real merge their Online Music Stores to compete with iTunes. Deal include Verizon for distribution.
(tags: MTV Rhapsody distribution downloads Itunes)

MTV [...]

Snips+notes on Adobe’s implementation of H.264 video in Flash—
* This is a pretty big step in the direction of interoperability of digital video platforms—Web Video/Settops/IPTV/Digital TV/mobile “hardware acceleration” for Web video will be a boon to the adoption of HD-ish quality video via the Innertubes.
ISPs better step it up. Cable’s Bandwidth Shortage.
* Adobe has licensed [...]

Story at ZDNet. More at Beet TV.
We’re announcing a new update to the Flash Player today code named “Moviestar” and it includes support for the widely used industry standard H.264 codec as well as High Efficiency AAC audio support. The update will also be a part of Adobe AIR.
Undoubtedly a move in preparation for adding [...]

Variety: Paramount goes HD DVD exclusive
(tags: hddvd HD Bluray)

Variety: Tech firms eye set-top opportunities
(tags: settops distribution downloads)

Building B Gets $17.5 Million Funding For Converged TV Box
(tags: settops distribution downloads)

Limewire To Open DRM-free Digital Media Store
(tags: Limewire distribution downloads DRM)

MicroCinemaFest 2007 announces line-up
(tags: film Festivals DIY)

NYFF ‘07 | Breillat, Chabrol, DePalma, Ferrera, Haynes, Hou, Landis, Lumet, Reygadas, Rohmer, Schnabel, Sokurov, Tarr, Van Sant… On New York Fest Roster
Highlighting the upcoming New York Film Festival.
(tags: film Festivals)

Antonioni and Bergman’s Archives In Danger
(tags: film archives Bergman [...]

Boing Boing: Burning Man field recording remix: ambient audio downloads
(tags: music art audio)

Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch
(tags: Cable iptv broadband)

Beet.TV: Overlay Ads Could be the “Holy Grail” of Online Video Advertising
Demo/Overview of Adobe’s forthcoming media player/platfom
(tags: video advertising Adobe Flash)