Watching TV on the computer isn’t exactly a new idea, but much has changed in recent years. The television industry was once incredibly restrictive with its content on the Web, preventing clips from shows like Saturday Night Livefrom appearing anywhere online.
But now, clips and even whole episodes are showing up on the Internet — legally — [...]

[This is directed at anyone who has made or has even thought about making their own original web series. If that's you, then please listen up.]
Are you ready? 2009 is here and this is the year we get serious. The economy is in the crapper and that’s all that major media seem to write about. But [...]

Laura French of Roseville, Minn., claims that she’s “terrified of technology.” But she enjoys watching TV and movies on her laptop computer so much that she dropped her premium satellite TV channels.
Grant Edwards of Minneapolis says he’s watching broadcast TV a little less now that he can watch online video on his living room TV [...]

Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living.
One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure incomes from the Web site. For some, like Michael [...]

A conference Tuesday on the future of television turned up differing opinions about whether new-media options were hurting or helping TV ratings.
Several members of TV-heavy traditional media companies, including CBS Corp. and NBC Universal, said full-length Web videos on sites like Hulu and the broadcast networks’ own sites were starting to see some real traction [...]

Movies are increasingly creeping online, as video sites like YouTube and Hulu are adding feature films to their extensive libraries.
At the Google-owned YouTube, there is the YouTube Screening Room, which every two weeks, adds four new films — mostly independent works — to the site. Hulu, the joint creation of NBC Universal and News Corp., [...]

ON Networks(R) (ON) today announced the release of the first episode of Smart Girls at the Party - the original digital TV series that aims to help young girls find confidence in their own aspirations and talents. The series was created by and stars actor/writer Amy Poehler and friend Meredith Walker, former senior producer for [...]

Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios, better known as MGM, will be the first major movie studio to post full-length feature films on YouTube, the company announced Sunday.
CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was preparing to launch a feature-film service after spending months smoothing over fractured relationships in Hollywood.
MGM will likely not be the last studio to post [...]

Is the web destined to become the new go-to venue for must-see indie flicks?
That’s what former Miramax and IFC executive Mark Lipsky is banking on with his latest venture, Gigantic, a digital screening room that will showcase independent feature films.
“I honestly don’t know if we have the right leverage or the right product yet,”Lipsky told Variety. “But everybody [...]

Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.’s Hulu to Joost — a site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive experience.
Joost’s relaunch, which will let users watch shows like “Friends” or “The Daily Show” directly on the Web, [...]