http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1 Confused? Can't make it work? Relax. Neither can Hollywood. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:26:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Issuing a "public and fond farewell," Hulu announced that "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" have defected from the online video streaming service. The news comes as Hulu failed to renegotiate a deal for content from Comedy Central, owned by Viacom. Hulu cast the departures as a wrenching loss for its ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/03/03/daily-show-colbert-ditch-hulu/ While Comcast is busy herding online video behind its TV Anywhere walls, rival Cablevision plans to help viewers watch streaming video in the wild -- via the new PC to TV Media Relay hookup. Cablevision says the service allows customers to transfer anything (their italics) that displays on their PC monitors ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/02/26/cablevision-slings-online-video-to-tvs/ Wal-Mart confirmed that it's buying Vudu, the online video pay-per-view service. The move puts the retail giant on the cutting edge of the streaming video space, where it'll compete with Amazon's Video on Demand and the iTunes Store. Wal-Mart also could choose to challenge Netflix, with its "free" Watch Instantly service, ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/02/22/wal-mart-gets-vudu-online-hd-provider/ NBC remains in full retreat from live online coverage of the Winter Games from Vancouver, slashing the number of hours offered during the 2008 Summer Games by something like four-fifths. Meanwhile, Canadian broadcasters are boasting "every second of every competition" live on two web sites. Computer stuck here in the U.S.? Hope ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/02/14/olympics-streaming-video/ YouTube has managed to stay relatively family friendly, but it's no trouble finding a bad neighborhood or two. And so we have Safety Mode, just rolled out to users. Most nanny filters turn out lame -- blocking things like the name "Dick." (Yep, saw that one ****'d elsewhere today.) YouTube passed ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/02/11/youtube_censorship_parents/ Netflix's streaming video service goes arthouse with the addition of 300 new indie and foreign titles, from the likes of the Criterion Collection and Kino Lorber. Other distributors announced as part of the Watch Instantly expansion into the indie arena include Gravitas Ventures, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories and Regent Releasing. "We've ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/02/02/watch-instantly-reels-in-300-indie-titles/ YouTube has gone public with a redesign of its viewing page, a change that puts the focus back on the video being displayed, instead of a lot of ancillary crap. The re-do includes a dump of the useless 5-star rating system. Instead, it's thumbs-up, thumbs-down. Not many people like redesigns at first, ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/01/25/watch-and-win-youtubes-cool-redesign/ Hulu may shift to a partial subscription model within six months, meaning the all-free party is almost over. The big-media online video site is working on a plan that would allow viewers to access the five most recent airings of hit TV series, but older episodes would require a subscription fee ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/01/21/hulu-paid-subscriptions/ Microsoft reportedly has been having "in-depth talks" that would bring ESPN sporting events onto the Xbox Live platform. The Walt Disney Co.-Microsoft negotiations could lead to live streams that would be similar to ESPN 360, which offers major and minor events via some high-speed broadband providers, the New York Times reported ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/01/19/espn-xbox-360-streaming-video/ Netflix now has a presence on all three major game consoles, with news that the rental giant's streaming video service is coming to the Nintendo Wii. The Watch Instantly programming begins this spring, the companies said. (The New York Times broke the story and gives the big picture.) As with the ... http://downloadmovies101.com/wordpress-1/2010/01/13/wii-waves-in-netflix-streaming-videos/