I Returned My ‘Smart TV’ Because the Apps Were Dumb
Should you buy an Internet-enabled TV? Before you get all app-happy on the big screen, read this cautionary tale of a so-called smart TV from Vizio crashing, crashing and crashing some more.
BBQ&A: Auditude CRO Gets Grilled (in a Fun Way)
Just in time for the Fourth, Auditude CRO Mike Gaffney shows us his recipe for homemade BBQ sauce and grills up chicken on the bone and three magic words: cheese, filled, sausage. Join us for some summer fun on our new GigaOM TV series BBQ&A. 
@NATPE: World Bank Says TV is Good (for Developing Countries)
Could more exposure to Baywatch be a good thing for people of developing countries? Well, Baywatch, might be a bad example, but during his presentation at the National Association of Television Programming Executives Conference in Las Vegas this week, World Bank Sr. Economist Charles Kenny laid out how his case for why more TV can...
Why I’m Leaving NewTeeVee
Today is my last day with NewTeeVee/GigaOM.How’s that for not burying the lede?As corny as it sounds, I can’t stop thinking about The Matrix as my time here winds down.More than two years ago, I quit a rather lucrative job working with short-form filmmakers to join Om and his rag-tag group of bloggers. There was...
YouTube Ends Video Downloads Program
We received word this morning that YouTube has decided to end its short-lived video downloads beta program. David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted a video explaining the move yesterday along with an excerpt from the email he received from YouTube.The email from YouTube stated:“We want to thank you for supporting and participating in this beta test...
Study: Redbox Will Destroy the Entertainment Industry
If you thought the movie 2012 was disaster porn, just wait for the entertainment apocalypse that Redbox’s dollar-a-night movie rentals will bring about. That, in a nutshell, is the bottom line of a new report (PDF, hat tip to Video Business) from the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. that says Redbox’s low-cost movie rental will...
‘Bama vs. Florida Online Viewership Up 132% Over Last Year
Whoo! Roll Tide! Alabama walloped Florida 32 – 13 in the SEC Championship game over the weekend, delivering with it big gains in viewership on both old and newteevee.According to CBSSports.com, 91,401 unique users consumed more than 144,236 total hours of live video from the game. To put that in perspective, that’s a 132 percent...
The CrunchPad is Now JooJoo, Does HD Playback
We’ll leave it to other blogs to spill more ink on the colorful history of the new JooJoo tablet (formerly known as the CrunchPad). The phrase “HD video” is what caught our eye. From our pal Kevin Tofel:The operating system is Unix-based and the device has a 4 GB Solid State Disk drive for local...
Nielsen: Online Video and DVR Up Double Digits in 3Q
While 99 percent of video is watched on a TV in the U.S., in the third quarter DVR use and online video grew 21.1 percent and 34.9 percent respectively, year-over-year, according to the latest Nielsen A2/M2 Three Screen Report.Americans spent 129 hours and 16 minutes per month watching TV in the latest three-month period, seven...
SOS: Sony Online Service or “Save Our Sony?”
OK, for realsies this time you guys, Sony has finally figured all this digital stuff out. Sony CEO Howard Stringer told a gathering of reporters as much yesterday when he touted his company’s new strategic initiative, the Sony Online Service (which bears the unfortunate distress acronym SOS).This SOS is an attempt to better integrate the...
Zappos to Produce 50,000 Original Vids in 2010
Online retailer Zappos will be making a big push into original online video next year. The company, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year, will be upping the number of product videos it makes to 50,000 next year, from the still-impressive 8,500 it made this year.“Online video is another way for the customers to...
Vevo Gets Music Content from CBS Interactive
VEVO, the forthcoming music video site from Universal and Sony music (and powered by YouTube), announced today that it will also be getting content from “the vaults” of CBS Interactive Music Group.Starting next year, VEVO will run programming from Last.fm and more than 90 CBS radio stations. Content will include live performances and in-studio sessions,...
