Media Stories for 2012

A Peek Into the Business Side of Online Publishing (Video) 43
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming 119
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety 174
Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution 124
Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata 129
The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs 132
A Tale of Two Companies 70
Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study 155
Ask Slashdot: Best Console For the Kids This Holiday? 267
Ask Slashdot: Which International Online Music Stores Are Legit? 166
Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? 547
The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project 99
Director General of BBC Resigns Over "Poor Journalism" 214
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
Trans-Atlantic 8K/UHDTV Streaming With UltraGrid and Commodity PCs 58
Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet 148
FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released 82
XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap 63
Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio 361
The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film 727
World's First Color Moving Pictures Discovered 105
Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service 95
With 'Access Codes,' Textbook Pricing More Complicated Than Ever 400
Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection 570
BBC Keeps Android Flash Alive In the UK 102
Going All-Google To Replace Your PC and TV Service 134
Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 223
Will Your Books and Music Die With You? 248
MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store 225
The Olympic Live Stream: Observations, Recommendations, Predictions 82
BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional 215
Mozilla Adds H.264 Support To Android Firefox 77
BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold 96
Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? 268
Ouya Teams Up With XBMC 92
The Internet Archive Starts Seeding Over a Million Torrents 180
Why Internet Pirates Always Win 360
Should Journalists Embrace Jargon? 184
If You Lived In Riga, You Wouldn't Bother To Cut the Cord 195
XBMC Ported To Android 121
DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels 378
YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google 141
Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers 68
Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? 212
ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content 694
MIT Research Amplifies Invisible Detail In Video 114
RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software 257
Another YouTube Conversion Site Clipped 94
Mono Abandons Open Source Silverlight 336
Dolby's TrueHD 96K Upsampling To Improve Sound On Blu-Rays 255
Brazil Retailer Using Facebook Likes On Its Clothing Hangers 112
Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack 734
Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers 197
Sci-Fi Publisher Tor Ditches DRM For E-Books 280
Chasing Federal Government IT Stories the Old-Fashioned Way (Video) 17
30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette 247
Mozilla Testing Click-to-Play Option For Plugin Content 124
MythTV 0.25 Released, New HW Acceleration and Audio Standards Support 144
Ask Slashdot: How To Make My Own Hardware Multimedia Player? 140
SJVN Tells How Reporting on Linux Has Changed in the Last 10 Years (Video) 79
Tensions Between Archivists and 'Occupy' Protesters Over Preserving the Movement 153
Nano-SIM Decision Delayed 117
Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player 426
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to SlashdotTV! (Video) 203
Apple vs. Nokia, RIM and Motorola On Nano-SIM Standard 144
Mozilla To Support H.264 249
Wikipedia Didn't Kill Brittanica — Encarta Did 288
Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers 136
Third-Generation Apple TV Lands With a Thud 222
Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play 146
Warner Bros: New Program To Digitize Your DVDs 371
Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless 841
The Fallout From a Flickr DMCA Takedown 170
Your Next TV Interface Will Be a Tablet 210
Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal 184
VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac 299
Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple 128
Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS 446
Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case 150
XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi 177
Apple Nets 350K Textbook Downloads In 3 Days 376
Google Giving Google TV Another Shot 199
AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators 303
Thumbdrive-Sized Streaming Media Players Coming Soon 112
China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel 48