Not more than a month ago we commented on the disappearance of Zidalgo, a popular premium themes company which found a lot of success early on.  Well, it has been at least six months since their last release, but if you are a video blogger, it appears it was worth the wait!   The new Playtime theme is a premium video theme which provides one of the best selection of features on the market today.

Here are the features included with the Playtime video theme:

• Rotating Featured Article Header Section (can also be disabled)
• Fully supports WP 2.x, including threaded comments
• Custom widgets such as Flickr gallery display, top rated posts, latest tweets, recent acts, jump menu, more featured videos, sideblog, and live-search
• User ratings system
• Easily embed videos from YouTube (including playlists), Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Flickr videos, Spike, and MySpaceTV. As well as these file types: Flash Video Files (FLV), QuickTime (MOV, etc.), Generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.)
• Easy language translation
• Smart jQuery integration for dynamic and impressive user interface features
• Multiple theme layout options – choose between 1 or 2 column display.
• Custom designed 404 page
• Tons of awesome extras!

Playtime Video WordPress Theme

You can view the live demo of the Playtime theme here.

Single-Use ($75.00) | Developer’s Pack ($249.00)

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In the market for a versatile video and/or photo WordPress theme?   Woo Themes has released a gorgeous new design built specifically for bloggers with this type of need and it includes an impressive feature set.

Here are the features included with the new Object theme:

• A neat javascript photo gallery slider, which automatically loads the images you upload via WordPress in your post.
• Select from one to five column layout on your front page and category pages
• Adding videos is just as easy as adding your photos, by simply pasting the embed code in the post embed field.
• 5 Custom Woo Widgets (About, Popular, Recent, Flickr and Search). Widgetized areas in footer, photo post left sidebar and blog post right sidebar.
• 15 smart colour schemes to choose from!
• Latest tweet or 468×60 top ad instead of site description
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme;
• Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+;
• Custom Page Templates for Full Width pages, Archives, & Sitemap;
• Localized and includes a .po file for easy translations to be made of the theme

Object Photo Theme

You can view the live demo of the Object theme here.

Multiple-Use ($70.00) | Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

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Note: Premium Themes readers can now click here to take advantage of a special offer.  When you are buying any theme from Woo Themes, you’ll receive a second theme of your choice completely FREE!

Though in the past the Style WordPress team has never released a video theme, it looks like they have attempted to jump into the video theme market with their latest release, the YouPress theme.

Unfortunately, in our opinion, the YouPress theme fails to meet the high standards that some of the other video WordPress themes have set, though they make up for it with the much lower price tag.

Here are the features the author lists that are included with the YouPress theme:

• Multiple Plugin Integration
• Optional Threaded Comments
• Built-In Theme Options Menu
• Easy to Modify
• Comprehensive Users Guide
• FREE! Developer’s License
• FREE! Support & Updates

YouPress Video Theme

You can view the live demo of the YouPress theme here.

Unlimited Websites ($22.00)

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Video themes have really taken off over the past few months and the last few days have seen a few really nice ones released.   StudioPress has just released their first video theme since the original launch of the site, this time with the Tubular theme.

Here are the features listed for the Tubular video theme:

• Custom Built for Videos
• CMS Homepage (Can also serve as a static website or blog)
• WordPress 2.7 Compatible Features
• Widget Ready

Tubular Homepage

Tubular Post Page

You can view the live demo here.

Tubular Theme ($59.95) | StudioPress Pro Plus Package ($199.95)

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For those of you that have been following Woo Themes for awhile now, you’ll remember that their specialty originally was news themes.   Well, I know I’m not the only that has noticed many of their latest releases have been in the video themes market, and these themes have been very impressive.

Their latest release is a theme called Groovy theme, which is a theme designed to features photos and videos.   Here are the features listed with the Groovy theme:

• Super-easy functionality  to create video posts
• Videos are resized automatically and Groovy even publishes the embed code for your readers
• Integration of the WP-PostRatings plugin for some added fun & interactiveness
• A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required
• 17 amazing color schemes to choose from
• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
• Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7
• Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
• 3 Integrated ad spaces, which can accommodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds

Groovy Theme

You can view the live demo of the Groovy theme here.

Single-Use ($70.00) | Multiple-Use ($150.00)

Note: This theme is also available with enrollment in the Woo Themes Club.

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