4/14 Update: Thank you for the feedback on our new video player.  For those who have had trouble watching our video, we appreciate your tremendous patience.  We’ve been working hard to tackle all the problems that have been coming up.  It can take time to figure out and reproduce an issue sometimes when we don’t get many specifics, and we want to make sure we’ve tested our fixes thoroughly.  For many of you who have been able to enjoy the new full episode video player, we have improvements on the way.   Your feedback is invaluable, so please continue to let us know what you think.

3/18 Original Post: We’re truly excited to launch our new full episode video player in time for the new episodes of The Hills premiering on March 24. We’ve been working hard to pack this new player with lots of improvements over our old video player. There’s also many more features we have in store for you, and once it’s more proven, we’ll start rolling this player out to other shows.

We’re still working out some kinks and tweaks but check out what’s new below. In the meantime, definitely let us know what you think… what you like, what’s not working, what can be better, and anything else you’d like to see in our new video player. We may not have time to reply as much as we’d like, but rest assured we’re reading and listening to your comments.

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• Watch larger video with up to 3x improved video quality, color fidelity and resolution than previous video players on mtv.com without downloading additional software.
• The video player will automatic detect and dynamically optimize the streaming content to the highest level bit rate your internet connection can support for optimal viewing experience. Our Flash videos stream from 1.7 Mbps for higher connection speeds to 350 Kbps for modest connection speeds. Also, the player automatically displays 4:3 (full-screen) or 16:9 (widescreen) video in their native aspect ratio. We still give you the ability to change display sizes and optimize the bandwidth settings, but designed the video player to give you the best viewing experience without you having to do much but sit back and enjoy.
• We’ve redesigned the webpage to give the video center stage with minimal clutter, and not in a pop-up. The layout is optimized for 1024 x 768 monitor resolution in mind, so even the large view fits perfectly on your screen. Relevant content like songs from the episode and After Shows, along with access to other episodes of the series, are now one click away.
• Watching our shows online doesn’t just have to be passive. Our audience is part of everything we do and we want to hear what you think about the show via comments and ratings, share your favorite episodes with the community by adding to your profile, and share with your friends by posting or sending them the URL.

WOW. We’ve been tracking your support for the adorable Jonas Brothers and their latest video–and we’re totally bowled over. And I’m sure that the Jonas Brothers would be too. While you got your fan mojos on, you actually helped us uncover a bug in our comment counter on the video page! There is a fix currently in the works now so that we can allow an unlimited number of comments. The good news is that all the comments were actually recorded, it was just the count that was off.

We decided to do a little housekeeping while the fix is taking place, so we eliminated all duplicate comments just to make it easier for you to get through them. Half the fun of watching the video is seeing what people have to say about it, right? We wanted to make it easier for you to see more comments at once. It’s not our general policy to delete duplicates, but given the circumstances we figure you’d understand.

We alerted our Music & Talent department to all of your efforts and they’re letting the Jonas Brothers’ label know how active and motivated you guys have been around the band. We were definitely impressed by your organization and mobilization so we passed the word on.

Thanks for visiting MTV.com!

MTV News has been bringing you the very latest in music, movies, celebrity and pop culture news for years. On air, online, and on your mobile device, we’ve always mixed things up and given you the best of everything.

MTV News continues to serve up a blend the day’s news updated throughout the day. Our new News homepage allows you to zero in on just what you’re looking for.

If you’re just looking for the latest music news, movie news, video games news or news from rest of the world, we’ve got you covered.

Want to browse our collection of News, Movies and Video Game blogs? The Newsroom, Movies, and Multiplayers blogs are all accounted for here.

Want to upload a photo from last night’s show? Or just browse our Featured User’s profile? Click on You R Here, MTV News’ user generated concert site.

We’ve also added our latest and greatest photos, just in case you can’t get across the country to see your favorite artist performance or movie premiere in person.

We’re rolling out more changes to MTV News in the coming weeks. More news video reports. More ways to sort and subscribe to your favorite types of news. More MTV News.

Addicted to Noise (A2N) is a shiny new megaphone designed to help unsigned bands get loud in a big way.  On A2N emerging bands have a place to create dynamic, media-rich profiles, post content, rally fans and play their music to the world.  Contests and other promotions give bands and their fans a chance to raise visibility for the music they love.

So sign up and become a member of Addicted to Noise and start voting for your favorite emerging artist in contest and engage with artist and fan in conversation.

Your feedback is important to us so let us know the good and the bad by leaving a comment here.

MTV.com just added free song lyrics to our enormo list of free music
offerings, which, of course, includes videos, songs, exclusive photos,
full-length album previews and more. From hip-hop club-bangers to R&B
ballads to pop singles, arena rock anthems, obscure indie rock tracks,
Reggaeton hits, old-school favorites and more, MTV.com’s giving you
every word of those songs you can’t go another minute without knowing
the lyrics to.

When you wanna find lyrics, all you need to do enter an artist, song or
an album — or just enter a phrase — into the search field on MTV.com,
and let MTV.com find the lyrics to the whole song for you.

So start searching for free song lyrics now on MTV.com, and find out the
real words to those songs you THOUGHT you knew the words to all along or
didn’t even know in the first place. We’ve got all the song lyrics you
want — and need — to know, and they’re all right here:

http://www.mtv.com/music/lyrics/

Fatman Scoop and Shanda  offer open and candid advice in love, friendship, family and everyday life. No subject is taboo! Man And Wife offers a platform for people to discuss love and sexual experiences in a fun and unabashed way to nurture and build emotional and physical intimacy with their partners. Join the Man And Wife community today.

MTV and Adobe are teaming up to bring you the MTV Adobe® AIR™ Challenge. Think you can make the coolest Adobe® AIR™ application worthy of MTV’s digital age? Then give it a shot!

We’ve lined up some great prizes for the three we like best - the “Total Request Application” Grand Prize and two finalists, “Pimp My Assets: Mashup” and “Making The Wildcard.” So, get Adobe™ AIR®, grab some MTV assets, and start coding!

You know Flash, Flex, HTML, Javascript … We know music and pop culture. Let’s mash the two together and see what happens. We’ve made a variety of MTV.com RSS feeds, Video & Podcast mRSS feeds, MTV Blog feeds and outrageous MTV Art available for this contest.

Pull in some fresh MTV.com videos, photos, news or blogs into your Adobe™ AIR® application.

Think is a new online community where young people, their friends and some of the biggest names in pop culture can come together to bring about positive change. Think.MTV.com is a dynamic, multimedia-driven site where any young person can learn more about important issues like the environment, sexual health and immigration, share their opinions – via uploaded online videos, podcasts and blogs – and connect with others to make a difference.

The Think Community is one of the only to reward members for positive actions taken online or off, serving up chances to hang out with socially conscious celebs, access to exclusive MTV events, exposure on MTV and other national media outlets, as well as grants, scholarships and more. Bono, Pete Wentz, Shakira, Reggie Bush, Rosario Dawson, Nick Cannon, Miss USA Rachel Smith, John Legend, Nick Lachey, Chris Rock and Steve Nash are just a few of the stars already involved with the Think Community, and many more will be joining in the weeks ahead.

As promised months ago when we flipped the site from a short-lived Flash experience back to an HTML platform, we’ve been constantly working on new MTV.com features and improvements. The smaller stuff has been rolling out quite regularly, but now we’re ready to test something a bit bigger.

Today we took the first step towards implementing community features with the launch of beta.mtv.com. Admittedly, it’s a baby step: mostly it’s commenting and the ability to rate content (video, photo, articles). But creating the back end for this lays the foundation for other features that comprise most online communities (user profiles, customization, messaging, etc.) that we will unveil in the coming months.

We have also made it possible for you to snag our music video clips and post them to your MySpace page or blog. The video embed codes sit to the left of our music videos.

Because we want to get it right before going public, we’ve got the beta launch. We invited people who previously registered with MTV.com to take part and asked them to invite their friends. But you’re not left out, either. Interested MTV Labs users are invited to join in, too, by clicking here.

So, please, kick the tires a bit for us. Rate music videos new and old, sound off on a news article and engage other beta testers in conversation. And let us know the good and the bad of how it’s working by leaving a comment here.

Search, playback and dedicate music videos, all within Facebook. You can find your favorite videos, share them with friends, and track what you friends are watching with this application.

Let us know what you think.

Thanks, the MTV.com Facebook Application for Music Videos team