Filmmaker Kaipo Jones recently published a short film showing what it might look like if an Imperial Fleet from Star Wars were to descend upon Los Angeles. Granted, it’s not of the caliber that a full-on production studio with deep…

Microsoft is moving away from the Xbox branding it had previously associated with its music and video applications. The new apps, known simply as Music and Video, aren’t quite ready for primetime but they are available to those running the…

Vessel, the online video subscription service that promises to offer early access to high quality content, has exited beta and is now available to all.

Amazon’s landmark acquisition of Twitch arguably signaled the arrival of livestreaming video. With infrastructure and technology finally up to speed, streaming live video from a mobile device is poised to become the next big thing in social networking and an app called…

It's hard to remember a time when all the footage of goats that sound like humans, or Taylor Swift videos, or mash-ups of goats sounding like humans singing to Taylor Swift weren't just a tap away. But it was only…

There’s both good and bad news coming out of photography startup Lytro this week. On one hand, the innovative company has raised an additional $50 million in funding. The bad news? The money is being used for a strategic shift…

It may come as a surprise that YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform with more than a billion users each month, still isn’t profitable. Two people familiar with the company’s finances told...

Twitter has announced a pair of new features that’ll give the microblogging platform some much-needed core functionality in the face of stiff competition.

When one thinks of video on the web, services like YouTube, Dailymotion and Vine typically come to mind. But after embarking on a heavy video push a year ago, Facebook has quietly climbed the ranks to become one of the…

In the coming weeks, Google will be adding support for 360-degree video uploads to YouTube.

It’s been nearly two and a half years since Psy’s Gangnam Style music video went viral, setting a number of YouTube records in the process. As with most one-hit wonders, they often fade away just as quickly as they emerged…

Samsung’s Milk streaming app is now available for videos. The aptly-named Milk Video app is described as a video discovery service that makes it easier to find and share the most popular clips with friends and family.

YouTube officially added support for 60 frames per second videos back in June yet up to this point, the option was limited to select video partners. The world’s most popular video sharing website recently enabled 60 FPS support for all…

Image hosting site Imgur has decided the old GIF format for animated images just isn’t cutting it anymore. In a site-wide update, Imgur is now converting animated GIF uploads into what it calls GIFV. The new tech essentially takes standard…

Popular media streaming app Plex has announced that it is coming to Microsoft's Xbox One and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. Plex will be available for download on the former starting today, making it the first game console the app has…

It’s been nearly a year since the Cupertino City Council approved Apple’s plans to build a massive new campus not too far from the company’s current headquarters. Since that time, we’ve heard nary a whisper about the project’s progress thanks…

Nearly a month after unveiling Bolt, a Snapchat-like app that allows users to send short-lived photo and video messages from their mobile devices, Instagram has now announced an all-new standalone app that shoots professional-looking video clips. Dubbed Hyperlapse, the app…

With so many first-person cameras available in the market today, such as head-mounted GoPros and Google Glass, many people have been creating videos of their travels. Because of the head-mounted nature of these videos, the final product will often be quite…

In an effort to bolster its video-advertising efforts and reach more small-business customers, Google has acquired Directr, a startup that helps create beautiful mobile videos. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

As expected, Yelp has added the ability to add short videos with reviews. The company announced that users of its iPhone app can now upload 3- to 12-second videos with their reviews, allowing them to show off aspects like ambiance, lighting,…

A team of avid Star Wars and Minecraft fans have spent three years recreating the sci-fi classic Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in the pixel-filled building game. And the results are quite amazing, accurately following every scene with a superb level…

Watching videos on YouTube will soon be more enjoyable than ever. The Google-owned company has flipped the switch on support for videos of up to 60 frames per second which means video game footage in particular will finally look as…

It never ceases to amaze me how different our world looks when things are slowed down. Something as simple as a match head igniting at 4,000 frames per second or a slinky compressing in ultra-slow motion is utterly beautiful.

Computer generated imagery (CGI) has been used for decades in films and on television shows to make the impossible come to life. Even when done to perfection, CGI is typically pretty easy to point out when you know to look…

Comcast is working on a YouTube-like video streaming service and is planning to launch it to a limited set of customers by the end of the year, according to the company's senior vice president of video Matt Strauss.