• Sony said it will offer a movie and TV show download option for its Playstation videogame console.
• Apple Corporation, which sells millions of videos online through its iTunes store, relaunched its Apple TV player, which can send that content to a TV set.
• Amazon, the online retailer, is offering Amazon Video on Demand, which will give users immediate streaming access to 40,000 movies and TV shows. This video is now available only on a computer.
• At least a half-dozen TV manufacturers, including Sony, Hewlett-Packard, and Samsung, have announced they will sell sets that are continuously connected to a broadband Internet network, allowing Web content, including video, to move easily to the biggest screen in the house.
• TiVo, the digital video recorder, will supply video from YouTube, the online video site famous for short, often amateur videos.
• In March, hulu.com went public. The website streams online free, high-quality video including a growing selection of TV shows and movies.
