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?

"Just when you've traded up to a flat-screen and figured out HD, a new trend is poised to cause major ripples in the market: Internet-ready TVs."

"Several TV manufacturers, among them LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, currently have or will soon introduce models that are Web-enabled, meaning viewers can watch a show and simultaneously look online to get news, view photos -- even check out what Ashton Kutcher is blabbing about on Twitter."

Check out Reed Tucker's article in USA Weekend Magazing by clicking here.