Video's continued migration from TV

The Times this am has one of their periodic stories about how new media is changing old ways.  This one focuses on one of the subjects we've been talking about a great deal over NPI - how video has been liberated from the distribution monopoly of broadcast TV.  It begins:

WHY are fewer viewers watching the new fall television series? Perhaps because they are too busy watching video online.

As broadband service becomes more available at home, the growing prevalence of video programming on the Internet is catching the attention of consumers — not to mention marketers and media companies.

“Video has been liberated” from the TV set, Beth Comstock, president for integrated media at NBC Universal, said last week at a panel at the Ad:Tech conference in New York.

“If you’re in the video business,” she added, referring to companies like her employer, the NBC Universal division of General Electric, “it’s exciting to see where it’s going..."