Posts Tagged with ‘myspacetv’

MySpace Debuts Today New Post-Collegiate Drama, ‘Roommates’

Paul Glazowski

MySpaceTV, News Corp’s answer to YouTube, announced early this morning that it will today debut a serial program, called “Roommates,” which it will divvy out to the social network’s multi-million-strong viewership over the course of some 45 days (weekdays only) in brief three-minute snippets. Each new episode will be shown on MySpaceTV starting at 4pm EST, Monday through Friday.
The Web-only show follows in the path established by the producers of Prom Queen, a drama which ran over the course [...]

NBC Announces Free Video Downloads Via NBC Direct

Michael Garrett

Apparently, NBC Universal cannot wait for the launch of Hulu (its joint venture with News Corp.) to offer its full episodes online to viewers.
Via a press release, NBC has announced that it will be offering its top television shows for users to download up to a week after broadcast. The videos will be ad-supported, which will allow NBC to provide the shows for free. Confirmed shows for the launch include Heroes, The Office, Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night [...]

Ripcode To Make Web Video Encoding Faster And Easier

Michael Garrett

The explosive growth of video on the internet has brought with it an increasing strain on servers and the need for more storage space.
With video iPods, PSPs, iPhones and many other mobile devices offering video playback, it has become necessary to offer videos in multiple different formats which takes up more space and eats up more bandwidth requirements.
To provide a solution for this growing dilemma, RipCode has been hard at work for the past 18 months developing an appliance-based [...]

MyspaceTV To Feature LonelyGirl15 Season Finale

Michael Garrett

Beginning Friday, August 3 at 8 a.m., LonelyGirl15 will begin showing its season finale on MySpaceTV every hour for 12 hours in a row. The “12 in 12″ final episodes will follow the cast as they try to find their missing friend. Each episode is usually between 1 to 4 minutes long. Expect the second season of LonelyGirl15 to start next week, on August 6th.
“We're thrilled to give LonelyGirl15 the global platform it deserves via MySpaceTV,” said Greg Goodfried, co-creator [...]