David Beisel of the GenuineVC blog has put down some of his thoughts about online video. David notes that many more people are releasing long-form video onto the network. We have seen that with lots more professionally-produced audio/video episodes and with media producers retasking their content in podcast format.

I think that there does have to be a shift in consumer behaviour first, to really enable broad acceptance of long-form net video. Given that the TiVo has been around since 1999 and has yet to be widely adopted, it might take some time for consumers to adapt.

However, there are a lot of data points to suggest that we might be on the verge of just such a consumer shift. Long form shows are readily availble via iTunes, and my boss was recently forced to leave his iPod with his vacationing family so that they could watch Battlestar Galactica, played from the iPod onto the TV. More Media Center PCs are now sold than XP Home machines (to be fair, most people probably aren’t buying them to put next to their PCs).

In an earlier post, David also states that distribution and tools (like search) are also key to proliferating net video.