CastTV.Com

Watching videos on the Internet has, in recent years, become as commonplace as ... well, the Internet itself. From YouTube to Hulu and Fancast to the websites of the core television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox), there are almost as many sites where a person can watch (or post) videos of just about anything as there are different "species" of Barnum's Animal Crackers, maybe more.

But what if the video you want to watch isn't available on through the obvious outlets? What if you find it on YouTube but when you start to watch you discover it was, in reality, someone pointing their handy cam at the television? What if there was a site where all of the videos throughout the whole of the net were cataloged and all you had to do was search in one place, instead of bouncing from YouTube to Hulu and back again?

Well, there is. The site is called CastTV.com and it is essentially a clearing house for all of the videos from here to the end of the Internet. Now, all you have to do is type in the name of whatever you want to watch and, if it exists on the World Wide Web, CastTV will find it for you.

CastTV is free but because it is a cataloging site, not a hosting site, not all of the videos on the site are. All of the videos found through CastTV are still subject to the terms of the original hosting site (which includes sites like MTV, Netflix, MySpace), which means in some cases a fee or subscription is required to watch a particular episode/video. It also means, in some cases, viewers may be limited to 72 minutes of viewing at a time, with a 54 minute break in between each viewing period.

In 2006, CastTV was little more than a dream for husband and wife entrepreneurs, Edwin Ong and Alex Vikat. It was the product of the couple's frustration at finding episodes of Survivor online while living overseas. "They realized that finding videos online was painful and got excited about building a video search solution." (from the About page of CastTV.com)

The goal of CastTV is, first, to index every video on the web (from YouTube to iTunes, and everything in between) and, second, to help users find videos that matter to them.

Today CastTV is live and online with over one million viewers.