25 Smart Video Podcasts That You Can Watch on Apple TV

Ear­li­er this week, we dis­cussed the recent release of Apple TV, the new gad­get that lets you wire­less­ly down­load videos from iTunes to your cushy widescreen TV. For many con­sumers, the log­i­cal ques­tion to ask is whether there’s much to watch if they plunk down the $299 for the hard­ware. (Check it out in our Ama­zon store.) And our read­ers might par­tic­u­lar­ly won­der whether there’s much in the way of cul­tur­al video. With these ques­tions in mind, we’ve put togeth­er a sam­pling of worth­while video pod­casts (oth­er­wise called “vod­casts”) that you can imme­di­ate­ly start con­sum­ing with Apple TV. These videos can also be found in our pod­cast library.

• Arts & Cul­ture Vod­casts
  • New York­er Car­toons iTunes Feed
    • Catch ani­mat­ed ver­sions of The New York­er’s famous car­toons.
  • Son­ny Rollins Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A 12-part video pod­cast series (to be released in month­ly install­ments) that intro­duces Son­ny Rollins, one of our jazz greats.
  • Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val iTunes Web Site
    • Get behind the scenes cov­er­age at the lat­est stag­ing of the influ­en­tial Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val.

• For­eign Lan­guage Lessons
  • MyGermanClass.com Ler­nen Wir Deutsch! iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A series of edu­ca­tion­al and enter­tain­ing video pod­casts that will teach you Ger­man.
  • Japan­ese Class iTunes Web Site
    • These video­casts from the Kyoto Japan­ese Lan­guage School use video to demon­strate how to writein Japan­ese.
• News & Infor­ma­tion
  • ABC Night­ly News iTunes Feed
  • ABC’s Night­line iTunes Feed
  • BBC News­Night iTunes Feed
  • CBS’s Face the Nation iTunes Feed
  • CNN’s Late Edi­tion with Wolf Blitzer iTunes Feeds
  • Democ­ra­cy Now with Amy Good­man iTunes Feed
  • New York Times Video Reports iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Reuters World Update iTunes Feed
  • Wash­ing­ton Post Video iTunes Feed
• Sci­ence
  • Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Sci­ence Fes­ti­val iTunes Web Site
  • Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel Video Pod­casts iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A trove of video pod­casts from Dis­cov­ery. It includes Ever­est — Beyond the Lim­it (iTunes).
  • NASAcast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A series of the lat­est videos from NASA.
  • Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Wild Chron­i­cles iTunes Feed Web Site
    • “See the nat­ur­al world like nev­er before through the eyes of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic adven­tur­ers, sci­en­tists, researchers, and the extra­or­di­nary Crit­ter­cam.”
  • NOVA iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A series of short vod­casts from NOVA.
• Tech­nol­o­gy
  • Adobe Cre­ative Suite Video Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Ter­ry­White teach­es you how to unlock the pow­er of Cre­ative Suite with visualex­am­ples. Empha­sis gets placed on inDe­sign and Pho­to­shop.
  • InDig­i­tal iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A pop­u­lar video pod­cast focus­ing on the lat­est gad­gets and high-tech prod­ucts.
  • GeekBrief.TV Video Pod­cast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Fea­tur­ing­Cali Lewis, this “fast, fun and flir­ty” vod­cast explores news­about tech toys and tools. Gen­er­al­ly very well reviewed by users.
  • Dig­gna­tion iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A week­ly web cul­ture pod­cast that focus­es on the tops sto­ries on Digg.com, the pop­u­lar social con­tent web site. Host­ed by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.
• Uni­ver­si­ty
  • INSEAD­’s Lead­er­cast iTunes Web Site
    • A series of video pod­casts that come out of one of Europe’s elite busi­ness pro­grams.
  • Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty
    • Mod­ern The­o­ret­i­cal Physics: Quan­tum Entan­gle­ment iTunes Web Info
      • A cut­ting edge physics video course taught by Leonard Susskind, one of the lead­ing fig­ures in the field.
    • Anx­ious Times iTunes Web Site
    • • Host­ed by Ted Kop­pel, this pan­el dis­cus­sion focus­es on the glob­al chal­lenges that we’re fac­ing in this cen­tu­ry. Pan­elists include: Supre­me­Court Jus­tice Antho­ny Kennedy, for­mer Sec­re­tary of State GeorgeSchultz, for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense William Per­ry, Yahoo co-Founder

        Jer­ry Yang, and Stan­ford Pres­i­dent John Hen­nessy, among oth­ers.

  • The Uni­ver­si­ty Chan­nel iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Prince­ton­has assem­bled a col­lec­tion of pub­lic affairs lec­tures, pan­els ande­vents from aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions all over the world. You can find

      lec­tures here from some of the world’s lead­ing thinkers.

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