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Google's YouTube is expanding its movie-rental service, as the video site tries to shift from homemade videos to professional entertainment content.

Hulu's paid video service, Hulu Plus, will surpass one million subscribers in 2011, marking the first time the company has released stats about its premium service.

What's the difference between the big screen in your living room, the smaller screen on your laptop or the tiny one in your pocket?

Bewkes has been using every public opportunity he gets to blast Netflix and its business model.

Netflix Inc. is raising the prices of some of its subscription plans and is shifting its focus to streaming video as more members move to the Internet to watch movies and...

Media chiefs this week sounded a note of caution on Apple's 99-cent digital-rental service for TV shows amid a division in the industry on whether to participate.

Google Inc.'s YouTube has launched a public test of a new live-streaming video service, the site's most ambitious foray into live programming.

YouTube's movie rental service is still in its infancy, and it still only offers a small selection of films, but that could change quickly. YouTube exec Hunter Walk told MediaPost that the site will soon offer its users the ability to charge rental fees for their uploaded videos.

In our early testing, iLounge has learned that some video delivery applications act differently over the 3G network than they do on Wi-Fi. The iPad's built-in YouTube application strips both standard and HD videos to a dramatically lower resolution over the cellular data connection, something that iTunes Store video previews notably do not do, instead staying at a higher quality and consuming a greater amount of data.

This is a continuance to a trend to allow hi-definition video content to be streamed from a hard drive.