There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items:

Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from.
TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected subscribers [...]

YouTube has announced that it’s going to test out hosting long-form videos and even full-length movies, with its new site feature The YouTube Screening Room.
As Internet videos get longer, though, viewing them on your computer starts to look pretty lame. Fortunately, there are a growing number of ways you can get YouTube and other Internet [...]

TiVo today introduced version 2.6 of TiVo Desktop for Windows, adding deeper support for Web videos and podcasts.
Features include:

You can now transfer all your downloaded Web Video from your PC to your TiVo DVR so you can watch them on your TV.
Automatic conversions of your TiVoToGo transfers to support portable devices that support MPEG-4 or [...]

CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.
The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities to [...]

Nero and TiVo today announced that they have entered into an agreement to integrate TiVo’s television UI with Nero’s next generation of PC software. Under the agreement, Nero will develop a software solution that will bring TiVo features to the personal computer.
“This agreement provides TiVo with an opportunity to deliver its interface and differentiated feature [...]

Podcasting startup PodShow is expected to formally announce a partnership with TiVo next week that will bring PodShow’s video podcasts to TiVo users. The agreement promises to make Podshow’s content available to millions of new viewers, directly on their televisions.
An official announcement is expected at next week’s Podcasting and Portable Media Expo.
Paul Colligan via TechCrunch

A new IBM survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits shows that audiences increasingly replacing time spent with traditional media with Internet time.
“The Internet is becoming consumers’ primary entertainment source,” said Saul Berman, IBM Media & Entertainment Strategy and Change practice leader. “The TV is increasingly taking a back seat to the cell phone [...]

Amazon and TiVo have announced Amazon Unbox on TiVo, a soon-to-be-launched service feature that will provide TiVo subscribers with the ability to rent and purchase movies and television shows from leading studios and networks including CBS, Fox Entertainment Group, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Amazon Unbox on TiVo is [...]

TiVo has announced this year’s top Super Bowl broadcast moments, based on aggregated, anonymous, second-by-second audience measurement data about how TiVo subscribers watched the game.
The company’s analysis shows that viewers were as interested in the ads as the game, with several user-created ads among the top moments of the broadcast.
“Commercials were the big winner with [...]

There’s an interesting article in the NYT today about people wanting more from their TVs.
Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Motorola, said consumers now demand more from their televisions, largely thanks to TiVo, which has forced the cable companies to ask suppliers for more innovative set-top boxes. “Enough people are experienced with time-shifting that [...]