Andy Plesser

The world of "smart," or IP-connected television sets, is evolving on many levels from new paid Apps to advertising around Apps, to video chat and soon, more games, says LG's Matt Durgin, Director of Smart TV Content, in this interview.

Although Windows phones have a small position in the U.S. marketplace, consumers are positively inclined to give the device a try, says Ross Rubin, Executive Director and Principal Analyst, Connected Intelligence at NPD Group.

The NFL, which limits live streaming in the United States to Verizon smart phones, will make its games available on tablets and computers for cable subscribers for the 2012 season, says Hans Schroeder, SVP of Media Strategy and Development, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Gearing up for increased demands for political news in 2012, NBC News has launched a portal for all the network's shows (on both NBC and MSNBC), news reports and for Web-only programming, explains Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer of NBC News, in this interview with Beet.TV.

The New York Times has created an iPad App to present the paper's fashion and style coverage called the Collection.

In January, owners of the Boxee Box can expand their viewing to include local HD broadcast channels with the purchase of a $49 dollar USB dongle which connects to the Box. The dongle is called Boxee Live TV.

The "all you can eat" plate of high-speed broadband access delivered to home users will shift increasingly in the near future to a "tiered" system in the U.S., says Andrew Grant, Industry Marketing Manager for Akamai.

The collapse of AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile will be beneficial to consumers looking for low-cost alternatives, says Maggie Reardon, telecom reporter for CNET News.com in this video segment.

In the way the iPhone revolutionized the smartphone by providing a vast amount of content, an Apple television could dramatically change television viewing, says Ross Rubin, Executive Director and Principal Analyst, Connected Intelligence at NPD Group, in this video segment.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) will present its first awards at a gala program at CES on January 12th at the Venetian Hotel.

Apps are beginning to proliferate the connected TV landscape, but they are not the future, says Avner Ronen, CEO and co-founder of Boxee, in this interview with Ross Rubin, Executive Director and Principal Analyst, Connected Intelligence at NPD Group.

The proliferation of native Apps, individually scripted for over 100 different devices, is creating big problems for content distributors and will lead to an over-crowded user interface, says Lauri Kivinen, CEO of Finnish Broadcasting, in this interview with Beet.TV.

The New York Times has been expanding "vertical" Apps around specific editorial with the recent launch of an iPhone App for the 2012 election and an iPad App for fashion called the Collection.

Twitvid, the popular video publishing and sharing platform for Twitter, has become something of a social video sharing network where users can upload and share videos of interest from YouTube and Vimeo, the company announced today.

Global Revolution, the organization which is managing the live Web video streaming of a number of Occupy Wall Street protests, has purchased several 4G devices which allows cameras with a small attachment to stream directly to Livestream.

Panache, the Los Angeles-based online video advertising services company, has been acquired by WPP's 24/7 Real Media, the companies announced last week.

With the acquisition of Los Angeles-based Panache, WPP, the world's biggest advertising holding company, will build a video ad serving business and video ad network for its family of companies as well as other agencies.  

OFF THE COAST OF SPLIT, CROATIA — Aboard a small cabin cruiser for a day of beach going and lunching around the small islands off of Split, your correspondent and his family were fortunate to observe a group of 15 or so dolphins swimming in the middle of the channel, about two miles from the […]

The iPad and other tablet devices makes the consumption of video news "much more useful and engaging" then the Web browser, says Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CBSNews.com, in this segment from the Beet.TV Leadership Summit on video news discovery.

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are becoming increasingly video-centric as visitors become more familiar with watching clips  — and as editors provide compelling content, according to the top video editors at both publications.