Video features is a small set of icons on our video thumbnails which tells you what kind of video this is. At this moment there are 6 possible features which could be combined in a different ways:

• Free Video - Video is free for view
• Free downloads - Video is available for download
• Free signup - You’ll need to register for free on the video site
• Pay per view - You’ll need or be able to pay to view this video to watch
• Pay per download - You’ll need or be able to pay for this video to download
• Signup payment - You’ll need or be able to buy a subscription on the video site

By introducing these features we’ll be able to start posting really interesting videos we weren’t able to post before because they are not free (we didn’t want to post videos w/o telling people that they could be asked to pay). So, really soon we’ll post really nice videos from peepcode and other authors and thanks to “video features” you’ll be able to decide if you want to watch them or not.

• We’ve really improved our search - now it is better than ever (fast and with awesome results quality/relevance).
• We’ve cleaned up some old and broken video links and now going to automate this process so you’ll have the best videos w/o any problems with stale links.
• We’ve started regular postings from many sites - each day we have more great videos here!
• Gategories/tags system is going to be changed drastically so it’ll be even easier to find great content
• Advanced search (by categories, tags, levels, etc) will be added soon
• Since we’ve started the project, there were many awesome videos out there, but we weren’t able to share them here because they are not free. Now we’re going to add such a feature here - you’ll be able to watch commercial videos (like peepcode screencasts) here, but of course, we’ll mark them appropriately to let our users decide what they want to watch.

Stay tuned and we promise - you’ll love our new features and new content!

• Ruby Plus (Ruby, Ruby on Rails)
• sd.rb podcast (Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Web Services)
• Adobe Photoshop Quicktips (Design, Photoshop)
• dnrTV (.NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio)
• InfoQ (Videos about everything related to software development)
• Learn Excel with MrExcel (Microsoft Excel)
• DimeCasts.NET (.NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio)
• WDTV (Design, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop)
• GitCasts (git source control system)
• Becoming a Jedi (Jetbrains ReSharper)

Check out these series - they are really interesting!

P.S. If you feel overwhelmed by such a big number of new items in our main RSS feed, you can signup/login anytime and create your own RSS feed to make sure you’ll see only most interesting (for you) content in your RSS reader.

Stay tuned! This week we’re going to release an advanced search functionality which would make searches even more powerful.

It’s been a while since we’ve rolled out some interesting features on BTV and I think it’s time to do it. So, today we’ve rolled out new minor release of BTV site with quite a few changes, which were annoying us and our users. Here is some short summary:

• Custom user feeds are fixed now (yes - shame on us - they were broken). They’re updated live now so sign up, create your own feed and watch new videos only on topics you like!
• Video posting made a bit simpler now - permalinks are not required anymore, few bugs in posting were fixed, tags are made unique automagically and some other interesting stuff was added.
• We’ve added ‘rippers’ feature - it you’re site owner and would like your videos to be posted on BTV but don’t like an idea of going and posting your videos manually, ping us (in comments or by email) and we’ll give you an ability to post your videos on our site in one click - ripper code will take all required info and links from your site automatically!
• Many small problems with feed manager, custom feeds and video posting were fixed.

So, stay tuned and let’s make BTV better - we’re waiting for your comments!

Many thanks to Yahoo for their great Yahoo Pipes service!

Thanks to all our users for their contributions and support! Stay with us and we’ll try to give you more features really soon.

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Today we released new version of the site where you can use “Recent Videos” link on the top of the pages and browse all videos page by page.

If you want us to add something else to the site or change something, just ask and we’ll try to do what we can.

If you want to post you own videos or videos you’ve found on the Net, just signup and use “Post New Video” link on the top bar.

Thanks to all our users for support.