Amazon.com Inc has approached media companies with a proposal for a subscription service that gives users unlimited access to some television shows and movies over the Internet in a bid to rival Netflix Inc, two people familiar with the talks said on Tuesday.
The Seattle-based online retailer has approached media companies including Time Warner Inc, CBS [...]

The Financial Times reports that Google will launch the service first in the United States, but in its talks with studios has emphasized the “international appeal of a streaming, on-demand movie service pegged to the world’s most popular search engine and YouTube, according to several people with knowledge of the situation,” the FT said.
“Google and YouTube [...]

YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project has received 80,000 submissions from 197 countries in 45 different languages.
Ridley Scott, who’s exec producing, said Thursday that he was “thrilled” over the results.
“The sheer number of uploads to the channel is astonishing and exceeds our expectations,” he said. “I’m as fascinated as anyone by what kind [...]

Redbox, which became the fastest- growing U.S. video retailer with DVD kiosks and a $1-a-day rental price stores couldn’t match, is developing an online strategy to stay competitive with larger rival Netflix Inc.
The company, the biggest division of Coinstar Inc., may use a Web service to expand its library beyond the [...]

Netflix Inc. is adding to the group of movies that its subscribers can watch online or over Internet-connected devices at the same time as they would have appeared on premium pay TV channels such as HBO or Showtime.
The deal announced Tuesday with film financier Relativity Media LLC adds to a batch [...]

Hulu, the online TV and film portal, has finally rolled out a subscription service, according to a note posted to the site on Tuesday.
For $9.99 a month, subscribers of Hulu Plus get access to a full season’s worth of their favorite TV shows–and even past seasons in some cases–and “not just a handful of trailing episodes” [...]

Al Gore, the world’s pre-eminent environmentalist, has embarked on his toughest recycling challenge: his own cable channel.
For much of the past year, Current TV has been quietly undergoing an overhaul that will change just about everything but the struggling channel’s name. Current declined comment for this story.
It’s a revitalization project Gore & Co. embarked on [...]

?Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur and”L.A.’s brash tech superstar,” thinks the future of the web is streaming video and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is. Literally, since his mouth is on ”This Week In Startups,” one of the shows featured on streaming video network ThisWeekIn.com. The Mahalo.comfounder teamed up with actor and web series creator, Kevin Pollack, [...]

‘With the TV business evolving into eyeballs on the internet, TV studios are trying to wrestle control of how their shows are being watched.
The major networks have their sights set on the 2010-11 television season at this week’s upfront presentations in Gotham, but there’s another behind-the-scenes frenzy taking place that’s all about the not-too-distant future.
The [...]

Film schools have long served as launching pads for film and  television careers, and now most major universities offer at least  some sort of filmmaking courses, even for those not looking to  jump into entertainment. A number of schools have begun looking  academically at the impacts of new media on culture and the future  of [...]