F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic - New York Times
(tags: FCC P2P Copyright bittorent)

Locking in Viewers to Watch the Commercials
Cox cable and ABC experiment with free VOD of ABC shows-with non-skippable commercials
(tags: Cable ABC VOD businessmodels)

YouTube Kills Another Rival: Divx To Shut Down Stage6
(tags: Divx businessmodels youtube google)

Radio to the People
” the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has spent more than US$4 million lobbying to convince regulators that the XM-Sirius deal would create a radio monopoly.”
(tags: sat.radio NAB Internetradio)

5 Ways To Update Your Podcast For Apple TV 2
(tags: Podcasting video appletv)

That’s the rumor. Apple+AppleTV can consider it an ass-kicking if it’s true.

Besides the limited (or outrageously expensive) production tools available to non-studios for producing Blu-ray discs, the Finishing Line breaks down the costs for developing your first project:
_$2,500 : License Fee to author and distribute Blu-ray
_$3,000 : One-time fee to AACS. (I think this is billed per production company / individual)
_$1,585 : Per complete Blu-ray project
_$.04 [...]

Silverlight is Microsoft’s Flash-like rich-media technology, first released last year. Scott Guthrie of MS provides a preview/overview of version 2. Sounds a lot like Flash—including built-in interface and data components. A beta of version 2 will be available soon. Version 1 on/for Mac was pretty underwhelming, I must say.

Seth Schoen at the EFF has posted the group’s concerns about the forthcoming implementation of DRM for Flash video. But is it really “DRM” in the strictest sense? Some clarifications from Flashcomguru:
…I think the author has missed the point here, or does not understand the purpose of RTMPE, the new encrypted flavor of Adobe’s Real [...]

Michel Gondry’s Rewind to Low-Tech Filmmaking
(tags: filmmaking DIY)

Apple TV 2.0 vs. Blu-Ray, DVD & HD Cable: The Comparison [updated] | iLounge
(tags: Apple appletv Bluray DVD HD video Cable)

25 Music APIs
(tags: music mashups tool tools reference)

AdSense For Video Comes Out of Private Beta. Can We Kill the Pre-Roll Now?
(tags: adsense video advertising.technology google)

Microsoft’s XBox to Adopt Player-Developed Games
(tags: Gaming DIY socialmedia Xbox)

Web Movies Show Why DVDs Sell - New York Times
Evaluating Internet-connected Settop Boxes
(tags: appletv Vudu Xbox settops distribution)

Frustrated indies seek web [...]

KCRW has launched a very cool new web player (BETA!). This should be a model for every station (and TV station, for that matter).
_Listen Live
_Sort/browse by subject:Music/News or Program
_Create playlists
_Share/embed
_RSS subscriptions
_Embedded E-commerce-buy the currently playing music from Amazon or iTunes.

Mac Goodies—Handbrake updated, with support for AC3 surround audio. Changes is a file-syncing and comparison app.
The HDCookbook for BD-J. A code repository for Blu-Ray authoring.
Trailer for Pablo, a film about Pablo Ferro—
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BBC mulls dropping Flash as iPlayer meets iPhone
BBC iPhone app = sweet.
(tags: bbc media video iPhone iPlayer)

Top 10 Last.fm Mashups
(tags: mashups music last.fm)

NPR: Michigan Libraries Stocking Video Games
(tags: Gaming Libraries)

Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay
Filtering search results is a very bad precedent.
(tags: censorship Yahoo P2P bittorrent)

Dailymotion - in High Definition, in a new player!
“HD” embeds
(tags: HD video Dailymotion)

BBC to put shows on iTunes ‘next week’
(tags: downloads BBC Itunes distribution)

Freedom to Tinker [...]

The Public Library of Law
(tags: reference research education law)

iCinema and projectiondesign collaborate on panoramic displays
(tags: film interactive.video cinema cinematography innovation)

Indie film grants and funding.
Toshiba—HD DVD Interruptus. A shame, because HD DVD authoring and production is both cheaper, and easier to author for independent producers.
Tulip is software for visualizing very-large sets of data. Download Tulip at Sourceforge.
Tag your environment with EEML-Extended Environments Markup Language.
(EEML) protocol for sharing data between remote environments, both physical and virtual. [...]