According to a wired article, the competition for online services recently grew with Blinkx (Etilities Forum) launching its TV service, Blinkx Remote.  The service provides a text-searchable index of vetted video content, and repackages the resulting video onto the Blinkx site.  Historically, searching video has been a difficult task because the user-created keywords and summaries can be abused by those just looking for a click.  However, Wired reports that Blinkx has 11,000 episodes of 1,000 TV shows indexed and ready for your perusal.

Hulu (Etilities Forum), a similar provider of online video content has been widely successful in the recent past.  TV networks have been more accommodating of these and similar services because the providers are limiting their offerings to those from legal sources, avoiding the perpetual piracy battle.

While it’s arguable whether or not consumers will be open to watching TV on their computers, the advent of both TV-connected computers and standalone, Internet-dependent devices like the Apple TV will certainly play a large part in the future growth of the Online TV market.

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