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AOL is using a one-time promotion to kick start its video service, named AOL Video. Natali Del Conte from TechCrunch is reporting that AOL Video will allow one free download per person (not per computer) this coming Saturday. Users can choose from a list of 30 movies including holiday titles and mainstream movies. AOL is offering a hybrid service with...

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You'd think that a reported $25 million round of funding would be great news for Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong, if the whole report is to be believed. Alongside an official announcement of even more deals with movie and television studios, comes the report, originally from Om Malik at GigaOm that BitTorrent has raised additional...

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The Digital Life Press event tonight at the Nikki Midtown in Manhattan was highlighted by a presentation by Tom Rogers (pictured at left), president and CEO of TiVo. Rogers explained five new features TiVo plans to roll out over the next year or so. The direction he's planning on taking TiVo, decidedly online. Check below the fold for the new...

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A very crowded and muddled online sector, video-on-demand, has a new player today, and this one is hardly a boot-strapped startup. The prevailing wisdom was that Apple's online domination of digital content would extend from music to video with the expansion of its iTunes store to include TV shows and movies. The prevailing wisdom may need to be rethought. Microsoft...

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If all goes according to plan, the best show on television may soon be available on the Internet as well. According to Ron Grover from BusinessWeek, HBO is planning to launch its own subscription-based Internet service. Stacked against HBO in this initiative are the multiple, unsuccessful attempts its competitor Starz has made in online distribution, as well the extremely lucrative...

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If Disney needed any further validation for its experiment with free online distribution of TV shows, CBS's announcement that it would basically copy the model exactly should have provided it. CBS will use its Innertube portal to distribute its most popular shows, including "CSI" and "Survivor" beginning in September. Back in May, I rated CBS's Internet television offerings as the...

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For my money, the clear winner in the major television networks race to the Internet this past spring was ABC. The network used ABC.com to stream ad-supported television episodes from its most popular series. NBC, CBS and Fox all followed suit when it became apparent that ABC was on to something, but their offerings fell short. Today, ABC is talking...

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Online distribution of movies and television shows is a very crowded space right now. Everyone from Apple to BitTorrent is trying to get a piece of the pie. What is going to separate a company from the pack? What edge will make the difference? In a nutshell, IMDB could be the difference maker for Amazon when its service launches next...

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Earlier this week MovieLink announced a deal which could allow its users to burn downloaded movies onto DVDs some time in the future. This is a huge step, unfortunately MovieLink's main competitor, CinemaNow actually rolled out the service today, according to M&C Movies. MovieLink acquired the technology from Sonic Solutions, CinemaNow's service is based on fluxDVD, a technology for secure...

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It looks like Steve Jobs can't boss everyone around. According to Think Secret, Apple will announce in early August a new service through its iTunes store, movie rentals. Apple has reportedly been in negotiations with multiple studios for months to provide movie downloads, but if this news is true, Jobs has been bested by Hollywood. Think Secret said Apple will...

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