YouTube will soon have more shows to be featured on the site. This is after the largest video sharing website signed another deal with Freemantel Media.

Freemantel Media is the producer of the world famous American Idol and other TV entertainment titles. The company currently holds some top rating shows. The deal will allow YouTube to publish original and with copyright videos by Freemantle, under a deal of course that Freemantle will get revenue from the videos.

This move is also under the hopes that piracy and unmediated uploading of Freemantle videos will be minimized. The deal will use YouTube’s VideoID anti-piracy technology, an anti copyright infringement system which fingerprints video to weed out illegal copies of copyrighted content.

The new deal will add videos and show to the already publicized programs suchy as Hole in the Wall (Australia) and X Factor 2007, as well as original web programming like ToyBoize and Atomic Wedgie.

Source: NewTeeVee

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Amazon.com Inc. finally unleashed its video-on-demand service. The service has buzzed around the blogosphere for a while. The service will allow ad-free movies and television shows to be watched on Macs or PCs.

The Amazon Video On Demand boosts Unbox application. Because of this update, users can now access more than 40,000 movies and TV shows and download them using the Unbox app.

Video on Demand also allows users to rent or buy movies and TV shows straight from their TVs. This is made possible thru the use of Sonys Bravia Internet Video Link Device on compatible Bravia TVs. On the other hand, users are entitled to a two minute preview of movies or TV shows before they can buy or rent a title.

Roy Price, director of Amazon Video on Demand said that the Video on Demand’s features were actually based on customers’ request.

Mixed reactions about the service are circulating the net.

A blogger from ArsTechnica, David Chartier considered Amazon’s second pass at a digital video distribution effort (after Unbox) an overall success. Chartier is impressed with the uniqueness of Amazon’s approach with Video on Demand.  He also pointed that the service “has struck a good balance between ‘owning’ content and not having to manage it.”

Source: ComputerWorld

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