Comments on: 45% of Europeans watch TV online

By: Stone-World » Blog Archive » Téléspectateurs proactifs en Europe

Stone-World » Blog Archive » Téléspectateurs proactifs en Europe — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:13:59 +0000

[...] culinaires ou de folklore Texan, mais juste pour vous signaler ce que disait aujourd’hui cet article de Techcrunch. 45% des Européens (uniquement Espagne, Royaume-Uni, France, Italie, Allemagne) regardent ou [...]

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Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:54:08 +0000

[...] A new study shows that 45% of Europeans watch TV online. [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Quelques suggestions aux télévisions pour combattre le piratage

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:03:10 +0000

[...] 2-3 ans pour voir un contenu diffusé aux États-unis. Ce délai est la raison pour laquelle 59% des francais, par exemple, regardent la télévision sur ordinateur. Vous voulez réduire le piratage? alors [...]

By: Combating Piracy: Earth To Big TV

Combating Piracy: Earth To Big TV — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:44:47 +0000

[...] sometimes wait 2-3 years to view content broadcast in the United States. This delay is the reason 59% of the French watch television on their computers. You want to dramatically reduce piracy? open up your content [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:29:47 +0000

Interesting study. I recently did a brief interview with the CEO of Zattoo which is a European TV project that hopes to bring all major European channels online soon.

http://www.insidetonic.com/exc.....attoo-ceo/

45% does sound a lot but if this project takes off, it could end up a lot higher than that.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:47:40 +0000

45% is a lot, I think this number is impossible. Perhaps 45% in the age of 15-35, but not the whole population. I do watch TV online just because I live away from home and using sites such as http://www.myeasytv.com/ keeps me in touch with TV channels at home.

By: Neil Fairbrother

Neil Fairbrother — Sun, 20 May 2007 07:28:42 +0000

As a UK-based independent producer and distributor of webTV shows we are at the forefront of all of this. We actually pay our mortgages by producing free to download commercially sponsored shows - think Channel 4 but download, rather than switch on. Our growth has been staggering, coming from nowhere June 1 2006, we’ve delivered over 50,000 hours of entertainment - our shows download into iTunes for watching on Mac, PC, video iPod, Apple iPhone, regular TV and AppleTV. You don’t need to be online to watch - which is a big plus IMHO.

We’d very much like the Motorola survey to be accurate! We are negotiating with some big household names now about show sponsorship, it’s a very exciting time for us.

Cheers

Neil

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Tech Now Episode 4: Can y’eh digg it! | Tech Now Media — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:57:42 +0000

[...] 45% of Europeans watch TV online [...]

By: Loic

Loic — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:44:23 +0000

Why is it hard to believe ? Because here in the bay we have poor internet access does not mean the rest of the world does not have a better access.
I moved from France to the bay area one year ago, and I am still surprised how bad (crap) the internet access is here.
In France, you have ADSL2+ in most cities (>10,000 hab.), this means up to 20Mb/s internet access, IPTV (~100 channels in both SD and HD + VOD) and unlimited telephone (IPVoice) for local/national/international calls, all this for only 30 euros (around $40) per month (and no need to have an extra phone bill like here, naked DSL rules!!).
So, yes, my brother and sister have both such service, and they watch TV only through there DSL (ADSL2+) line. And they call me, here in the bay, for free (i.e. included in there monthly plan).
So, please, travel outside US, you will surprised that the rest of the world is not that bad

By: The Mercer News

The Mercer News — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:17:26 +0000

On a technical note, the biggest problem is all of the formats and platforms, plus the fact that tower switching makes the video spotty, not a smooth display, and rather low quality at times when more users stress that system. Our problem to spite having good equipment, is that we have to down size the bit rate at times to allow more users at the same time, and to make it accessable for dial ups and dsl, but as I find more FIOS and ATT u-verse users are suing our system as those locations come on line.

By: The Mercer News

The Mercer News — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:14:25 +0000

I own http://www.themercernews.com and http://www.mygtv.net while its currently localized, I have found our now defunct Global Radio news, and online presentation gathered a following in europe, since we did us news, we were rather like the BBC to the USA, if you want news about your country, don’t trust your home town media. However, I am finding, even in our small area, of those who know, one of 4 launch video to watch from our site through links according to googles software.

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teknoloji » Avrupalı televizyonu online sever — Fri, 04 May 2007 10:45:45 +0000

[...] yer alan habere göre genişbant internet kullanan Avrupalıların %45′i televizyon izleme alışkanlıkları [...]

By: Kula bácsi

Kula bácsi — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:21:42 +0000

I don’t watch TV because even here just retarded U.S. shows are broadcasted.

By: Doombug

Doombug — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:11:26 +0000

Very understandable Europe has one of the most burgeoning tech markets for streaming equipment and PVRS and they’re heavily invested in buying a lot of tech equipment from high-tech production places like India and Korea.

What’s amazing is that I think Americans watch more tv online then Europeans it’s just that stats are not so open, go get some sort of stats from one of those tv sites like http://www.freetube.us.tc or http://www.peekvid.com

By: yaw

yaw — Fri, 04 May 2007 06:43:23 +0000

Im a european and I get about 85% of my tv viewing from the web. It means I spend less time watching my shows and don’t miss a single episode.

By: patricia

patricia — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:43:23 +0000

@ Devin, I know the space. I was at VON this year, all that. I just haven’t been impressed with what I’ve seen from U.S. companies on video here over the past year. It includes the traditional media players and the older start ups. I’m not counting the newer start ups or those who are rolling cool things out.

As far as monetizing goes, there were some interesting things in the video expo at VON, and a lot of my friends in the production side of advertising (commercials, etc.) think that product placement in video will become very popular in the coming year. There’s a lot of disruption going on in a lot of industries right now. I think it’s going to take a little more time for the dust to settle where people will find what works.

By: Willem

Willem — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:55:55 +0000

This is misleading. What is the defenition of online TV, if that means watching TV on the web… no way, rather 4.5% than 45

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:49:39 +0000

Just get it off torrents:

1. HDTV
2. No Ads
3. Hours early.
4. MASSIVE SPEEDS.

Comment No. 55 nailed it.

By: Acronyms

Acronyms — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:22:46 +0000

Misleading Title.

By: xtraa

xtraa — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:39:43 +0000

If I look at the passed eBay auctions for Joost accounts, it might be. Still some features mising, but lets wait for third party add ons

I completely gave up regular TV about 3 years ago. There was nothing new anymore and it is passive plus boring. Hear me? Booooooring.

My favs also don’t hit the screen here. I love RobotChicken and stuff. No way airing this in germany.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:02:51 +0000

There will be a convergance of Internet and TV.
To me, this will take some more time and figures from the study …
33% in Germany? Well, if this also counts as TV also youtube-videos on blogs or any other such videos, then the percentage would make some sense.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:45:08 +0000

Yes, its 45% of broadband users but still the number just looks like it was plucked from somewhere because its way too high. Maybe in a few years, I suppose.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:06:44 +0000

This figure may be more telling then you think.
I am from Australia, and here are some facts here.
80% of all TV I watch is coming from the internet. Podcasts/torrents etc.
Out of all my friends, all tech savy ones regularly watch tv from the web.
50% of my non tech friends, after I showed them how to torrent, have continued doing it, and learnt more themselves.
They all do this with the lean back experience, (NOT ON A COMPUTER lean forward experience).
Its called a DVD player with DivX support. Something you get with any DVD player you purchase over the last 3 years. (About $60 these days)
And then common trade with those who do not have the broadband link. 2 DVD can fit a full series. ie 24, Lost.
And to tell the truth, this is what has encouraged my friends to go more and more to TV from Internet sources.
Reasons.
1. No commercials. When you get use to it, its hard to go back.
2. Watch when you want to watch. Pause, come back to it etc.
3. Watch larger chunks of exciting shows in one sitting.
4. watch shows that take a long time to get to Australia, or never do.

My guess of % of people who watch TV that has come over Internet links is about 30-40% or all people in my age group 27-37. But my sample may be high due to the fact I showed them how, and this is the result.

I work in Production, and I may be against this in some ways, I wanted to see how these technologies changed the viewing habits of myself and my friends. I may be ahead of the curve, but only by 6 to 12 months.

I am a big believer in DRM, but DRM looks like being to restrictive and free download being to easy. I am very worried about the future of good quality content in the future.

This is a much bigger problem then people are willing to admit.

By: Berlin

Berlin — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:57:35 +0000

I live in France, we get free everything at 100mbps. No MS, No Google. Yeah right.

By: halo

halo — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:56:47 +0000

speaking of joost and video content, spotify are a nifty platform for music streaming. http://www.spotify.com just went private beta yesterday i think. they’re called the joost of online music in sweden and you know when the swedes mean something…they really mean it.