Internet TV is fast coming into its own, as high-profile players announce products that promise to change the way consumers digest video content. 

Google is rolling out services with partners like Sony this year that will blend streams from the internet and broadcast programming on television screens.

Hulu, the popular online video site, recently unveiled plans for a paid service that will deliver broadcast shows over the internet to computers, TVs, the iPhone and iPad, as well as several gaming consoles.

Meanwhile, Sonic Solutions struck a deal with Sears Holdings to provide its retail customers online rentals and downloads of movies and TV shows over an assortment of internet-connected devices.

The approaches vary, but they all present alternatives to what most of us have come to think of as normal: Paying to pipe in a handful of channels we want -- along with hundreds we don't -- in order to watch the few programs we're interested in, largely at the time we're told.

Read the full article here.

Goodbye YouTube software app, hello YouTube Web app. Google aims to kill off the YouTube mobile software app with a better mobile Web version compatible with iPhone and Android phones. The new YouTube mobile Web site was introduced Wednesday for smartphones and uses higher-quality HMTL5 video, a more polished user interface, and features video search suggestions.

For more, including key differences with the web app as well as new advantages, click here.

Unless you have been on another planet, you have probably noticed the incredible surge of video on websites and blogs. Internet videos are not the future, they are now! So let's look into why you should be creating inexpensive and easy internet videos to promote your company. 

Everyone knew it was going to come eventually, but Skype finally announced that the latest version of its video-calling software will now support HD-quality VoIP calls. But that’s not all — Skype is also planning to partner with Panasonic and LG to eventually bring the HD video calls to Internet-compatible TV’s, too.

That means that you don’t have to sit in front of your PC when you have to take or make a Skype call — now you can do so right in your living room.  Skyping on your HDTV will be possible later this year.

You’ll need an HD webcam to make video calls on your HDTV, though, and Skype will be unveiling a line of HD webcams very soon. The FV Touchcam N1 will be available next month for an estimated $70 to $100, and the FreeTalk HD Pro ($120) will hit virtual shelves the month after.

It’s great to see Skype making their already great VoIP service even better.

Read more about Skype To Bring HD Video Calls To Internet TV’s by Coolest Gadget Reviews

Two primary drivers of technology today are video and the internet. Video anywhere and the mobile internet have now entered into a new technology cycle and are poised for explosive growth for many years. A new technology cycle will last about 10 years which means there will be tremendous wealth creation opportunities in video and the mobile internet for about 8 more years.

This technology sector should garner outsized relative gains as the mobile internet market develops and a large portion of incremental profits go to companies that drive innovation and gain scale. Companies with the foresight to combine superior video technology into their mobile internet products stand to potentially see the greatest success. 

For the full article and a brief overview into video and the mobile internet, the primary drivers in the new technology cycle, click here.

I don't care how you look at that, 21.4 Billion videos is an impressive number. Read the Todd Spangler article here.

Interesting stats from a Gavin O'Malley article...

"The duration of the average online video was 3.7 minutes, while the average online video viewer watched about 500 minutes of video, or 8.3 hours, according to the research company." Check out his article, The Whole World Is Watching (Online Video).

So how many videos did you watch? Better yet, how many did you upload?

Leave it to Google, the folks that pioneered popular revenue sharing models such as Google AdWords and Google AdSense. Now they're ready to split a little revenue with you if your video "goes viral".

Check out the article, YouTube to share ad money with video makers of unexpected internet hits.

It's always enjoyable to read an article about increasing Internet video usage on the web, even if it's predictable. Unless you've been living under a rock we all know Internet video is just begining and will continue to rise.

From the Mike Sachoff article on webpronews.com:

"More than 157 million U.S. Internet users viewed online video during the month of June, the largest audience recorded for a single month, according to a new report from comScore."

Check out the latest figures and the rest of the article here.

You have a Roku box? Probably not but hundreds of thousands of people do. Roku   allows you to stream movies and TV episodes from Amazon and and Netflix directly   over the Internet. This isn't brand new technology, but in fact just taking off. Roku just   announced it will be streaming Major League Baseball games.  

Learn more about Roku at roku.com.

Read Dan Frommer's interesting article, "Cable's Grip On The Living Room Is Getting Weaker" by clicking here.

No real surprise here, especially after buying Youtube for $1.6b. Now Google has announced it's buying On2 for $106.5m. On2 produces video compresion technology which Google is looking to integrate into its Chrome browser, its Android mobile operating system, and possibly into Youtube.

Catch the latest article, "Google bolsters internet video" by David Gelles by clicking here.

*On another note, we're not saying Association Studios is for sale, but if Larry Page or Sergey Brin calls we're answering the phone. :)

It doesn't get much more straight forward than this...

"Fully 62% of adult internet users have watched online video on a video-sharing website, a   figure that has nearly doubled from 33% in 2006, according to a research report (pdf) from   the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project, which also found that 19% of   online adults use video-sharing sites on a typical day (compared with 8% in 2006)."

This article references the Pew Internet & American Life Project that I mentioned in a post   here.

Read the article on Seeking Alpha by clicking here.

 If you're wondering if your members are watching videos on-line, you might want to read this Gavin O'Mally article published today on mediapost.com which summarizes a recent report from the Nielsen Co.

"The number of U.S. consumers who frequent online video destinations has climbed 339% since 2003, while time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000% over the same period. In the last year alone, unique viewers of online video grew 10%, while the number of streams grew 41%, the streams per user grew 27%, and the total minutes engaged with online video grew 71%." - Online Media Daily