Mac only: QuickTime is a fairly elegant player built into Mac OS X, so why not use it? After installing the Perian component on your system, QuickTime will be able to play nearly any video you throw at it.
Since YouTube’s launch, the longest video you could upload was 10 minutes. No longer! Boing Boing reports that in the near future, that limit will rise to 15 minutes.
The long-planned DECE scheme to unify digital downloads into one globally compatible online file format is near completion, with the service – now known as UltraViolet – set to launch this spring. That logo is going to be everywhere.