Internet
Video - How Its Changing the Internet
By Steve Beard
Copyright Steve Beard 2006 -
2008, All Rights
Reserved
Watching TV has trained generators of viewers
for internet video. We're attracted to the big screen and we'd rather watch
than listen or read. We're already adapted to commercials, infomercials,
sitcoms, news, etc. Virtually everyone has a VCR and a wide variety of
entertainment and educational videos. Watching a video on a computer screen
is a natural thing for most of us. We're much more apt to watch a well done
internet infomercial than we are to read a long, boring web page.
News services and some businesses have been
early adopters of video. Remember the BMW mini movies directed by big name
Hollywood types. Those took a few minutes to download but were a great
marketing tool. The current generation using Flash just loads up and runs
in a few seconds. Now we have Internet TV showing reruns of old broadcast
TV shows along with a very broad spectrum of internet video.
Many technology forecasters believe that
Internet TV will replace cable and broadcast TV as the media of choice for
most viewers. Most believe that the adoption of internet technology is
accelerating worldwide.
Early adopters of internet video will gain a
long term advantage over competitors. Just as popular TV shows make tough
competition for new shows - topical web sites that use video to explain,
instruct, entertain, or build goodwill with customers will be well ahead of
competitors who wait.
There will come a time in the very near future
when prospects and customers will simply surf on when they don't find video
on a site. We're not there yet but its coming.
Its often said that the Internet has leveled the
playing field for small businesses versus the large corporation. As noted
above, internet video is exceptionally inexpensive for the do-your-self
crowd and well within reason for those that choose to hire a video
professional.
Check here for more information on how you can easily add video to your web
site.
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Steve Beard is a 22 year computer industry veteran, internet
technical expert, webmaster, and the co-owner of an award winning video
production company producing TV commercials and company videos. Click below
to get Steve’s Free 9 Step Video Training Program plus a list of recommended
equipment, video capture and editing software, and player generating
software.
Free 9 Step Internet Video Training Course
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Internet Video - New
Technology Makes It Easy
By Steve Beard
Copyright Steve Beard – All Rights
Reserved
Video is popping up everywhere on the Internet -
pushed by Adobe Flash technology and wide spread
adoption of high speed internet access by small
business and home users.
Adobe's Flash technology is free to
download and some estimates say that its found on
over 97% of all computers. High speed internet
access - DSL, Cable, Satellite, and all their
commercial brothers have now reached over 60% of
homes and businesses in the US. Add in video
on cell phones, PDA's and assorted other handhelds
and you have a prescription for a rabid market for
internet video.
Another technology factor is the
ease with which both Windows XP based computers and
Apple computers handle digital video in all its
forms. The plug and play between video
cameras, computers, and software has never been
easier.
Finally, all this connectivity has been build in to
cameras, computers, and even basic video editing
software at virtually no cost to the user.
Video capture and editing tasks that required
thousands of dollars of equipment and software just
a few years ago can now be done with $80 - $150
running on a standard PC.
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Steve Beard is a 22 year computer industry
veteran, internet technical expert, webmaster, and the co-owner of an award
winning video production company producing TV commercials and company videos.
Click below to get Steve’s Free 9 Step Video Training Program plus a list of
recommended equipment, video capture and editing software, and player generating
software. Free 9 Step Internet Video Training Course
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