Media Stories for 2015

For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word 169
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos 76
WeMedia's Andrew Nachison Discusses the Future of Online Journalism 17
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment 48
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast 233
FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime 372
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? 236
Rovi and Michigan State University Establish Largest US Library Media Collection 22
Video Game Music Is Saving the Symphony Orchestra 111
DRM In JPEGs? 301
BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP 72
Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail 94
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability 85
We Asked Doc Searls: Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer? (Video) 116
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time 100
Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine 286
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
Testing Old Tapes To Save Them 62
Apple TV To Be Revamped 132
Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? 174
Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? 307
Sultan of Sound, Dr. James Flanagan, Passed Away Aged 89 13
Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage 99
Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads 92
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' 99
Lights, Camera, Experiment! 14
Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm 174
Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 190
A Farewell To Flash 202
Judge Rules That Inglewood, California Cannot Copyright Public Videos 67
Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time 244
The Agonizingly Slow Decline of Adobe's Flash Player 220
HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids 46
CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video 222
Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor 145
Anti-Piracy Firm Sends Out Wave of Takedown Notices For Using the Word 'Pixels' 224
Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones 92
EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People 132
HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles 184
YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos 23
Microsoft Edge, HTML5, and DRM 140
Rumblefish Claims It Owns 'America the Beautiful' By United States Navy Band 97
Aussie ISP Bakes In Geo-dodging For Netflix, Hulu 40
How Television Is Fighting Off the Internet 194
New Zealand ISPs Back Down On Anti-Geoblocking Support 50
Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals 75
Amazon Pulls Kodi Media Player From App Store Over Piracy Claims 122
Ghost Towns Is the First 8K Video Posted To YouTube -- But Can You Watch It? 181
Apple Music and the Terrible Return of DRM 260
Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content 98
MediaGoblin 0.8.0 "A Gallery of Fine Creatures" Released 32
Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan 84
Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) 160
Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now 39
Lily Camera, a drone that follows you 0
Europe Vows To Get Rid of Geo-Blocking 114
Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video 170
YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices 129
Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding For YouTube 109
We're In a Golden Age of Star Trek Webseries Right Now 71
No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC 87
Notel Media Player Helps North Koreans Skirt Censorship 54
Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? 253
Ask Slashdot: Video Storage For Time Capsule? 169
Inside the North Korean Data Smuggling Movement 62
Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs 107
VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release 85
Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 188
How One Developer Got the Internet To Watch People Code 65
Tim O'Reilly On Big Data, CS Education, and the Future of Print 26
Watch Videos in Synch with Fellow iOS Users (Video) 71
BBC Radio Drops WMA For MPEG-DASH 65
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube 81
VLC Acquiring Lots of New Features 121
Kickstarted Firefox OS HDMI Dongle Delayed, DRM Support Being Added 106
Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? 645
The NFL Wants You To Think These Things Are Illegal 227
YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default 225
Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? 251
Twitter Moves To Curb Instagram Links 114
UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice? 332
The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge 60
The Current State of Linux Video Editing 223
Steam Broadcasting Now Open To Everyone 93
Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" 437