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Connected TVs are looking like they will be big business next year and I have just read a report on the subject from Colin Donald of FutureScape. I was struck by the following stat: A September 2010 survey conducted in the UK for Intel found almost half (45%) of individuals use social networking services [...] Netflix is at what might be looked back on as a watershed moment in the company’s history. On Monday they announced a $7.99 all you can eat download service for movies and television and according to the New York Times they are expecting that the cost of streaming movies will pass the cost of [...] This is on NewTeeVee: Amazon.com just launched a promotion dubbed Disc+ On Demand that may well be the start to the industry’s first major multi-platform retail experience. Customers who buy select movies on DVD or Blu-ray will be offered the chance to instantly watch their purchase through Amazon’s Video On Demand service. One of [...] Novermber 2008 data just out from Comscore and reported by NewTeeVee and Broadstuff, amongst others, shows that in the US online video consumption was up 34% from Nov 07-Nov 08 at 12.7bn video views. The number of unique viewers grew at only 6% to 98m – roughly flat as a percentage of the US [...] Tim Bradshaw has a good article in the FT today describing the regulators ruling that Project Kangaroo as currently envisaged will restrict competition in the provision of TV online in the UK. The issue is that ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, the owners of the Kangaroo joint venture, control too much of the [...] Ashley Highfield, recruited four months ago from the BBC to run Project Kangaroo announced yesterday he was leaving to join Microsoft. For those that don’t know Kangaroo is a collaboration between the UK terrestrial broadcasters to bring an online video service to market – a UK Hulu if you like. Microsoft are doing some [...] I’ve blogged this before with respect to music, but I have been struck again today by the thought that in the digital world many media industries will simply be much smaller than they have been before. You can argue this from the price side – the wide availability of illegal free copies of music [...] SlingMedia, creators of hardware/software service which allows you to stream your home television signal to an internet conncected device anywhere – e.g. you could watch your Sky Premiership matches on your laptop when you are on holiday, are now moving into the video streaming portal game. I.e. they will be competing directly with [...] Back in May last year I wrote a post wondering if BT would get the retail proposition for BT Vision right. An article in the Sunday Times yesterday suggests I was right to pose the question and offers interesting insight into the challenge for classic IPTV plays. First off the data: There is great [...] Yesterday I wrote about Amazon extending their video streaming service, and now today I read about traffic data at ISP Plusnet that backs up this trend (via the blogs of Azeem Azhar and Martin Varsavsky). The data from Plusnet’s network (they are a UK ISP owned by BT with over 200,000 customers): Streaming usage [...] |
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