Expect big changes in how video is made, shared, and consumed in the coming year.

The early reviews have been vicious. The buzz says it is DOA. But once you look under the hood, Google may have a winner.

Former top executives from Walt Disney and Electronic Arts have built Qvivo, a social media center app that manages and streams your videos and music all in from one place.

Microsoft often tramps along the same footpath that Apple's followed, hoping to cream some money from the market with a minimum of effort, and a new rumor suggests it's trying again--this time with online subscription TV.

This fall, one election really matters: Which set-top box will connect your TV to the Internet? Apple TV and Google TV have all the money, but fringe candidate Boxee Box, with its radical open-source philosophy, deserves a closer look.

The immediate reaction to the new, redesigned, strikingly cheap Apple TV is pity for Apple TV's competitors. Boxee, one of those competitors, sees it differently--and they might just be right.

To win the hearts, minds, and dollars of the public, Google TV will have to pass two tests: the Mom Test and the Nerd Test.