Who needs cable TV? Move Networks, which powers the Web video streaming for ABC, Fox, the Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet, streamed 180 million hours of premium video last year, 100 million of which it claims was in high-definition (at a resolution of 720p). With YouTube turning on an HD viewing option in December, and adding an HD section (as did Hulu), you can expect that 100 million hours to be dwarfed this year across all the major Web video services.
Move also estimates that it reached 55 million unique viewers in 2008, up from 25 million in 2007. The doubling from the year before is in line with a Forrester Research study that shows 63 percent of people watched video on the Web last year, compared to only 32 percent on 2007. In a survey of Move Network viewers, the company itself found that college-age consumers watch a lot more video on the Web—70 percent, with 55 percent saying they watch “more than half of their television programming via the Internet.”
Younger viewers, the ones advertisers want to reach because they are more impressionable, are moving to the Web, and not just for video snacking. (Move’s specialty is streaming full-length episodes of TV shows).
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Since my 2-year old has started using a computer, he’s hardly had time to watch TV. He gets to play with and watch what he wants to watch when he wants to watch it ..
Just a small indication of the future of TV methinks ..
I have a dial-up. I rather watch movies though on a 37 inch TV rather than a small computer monitor.
Educate yourself:
http://www.boxee.tv
Or get a mac mini and connect it to a LCD TV like this http://techavid.com - use wireless mouse as remote and Firefox to enlarge text to read from a far.
Paying only $50 a month for Internet & local cable (internet is cheaper that way).
Mike dial-up is the way to go! we even get the noise, that is just much better than the silent high speed internet.
Create or join a crunchie’s chat group at http://groups.im/
the user experience on abc is crap shit, just follow hulu’s lead people.
Ditto to that! OMG …
Takes control of your browser, commercials take up whole page and then after u watch their client’s commercial which you have a disdain for due to their UX you have to hit start to continue watching the program.
They were the first online TV site now they are the worst!
The best part of watchin tv online is that you can watch a show whenever you want to watch it. If you forgot to watch it or forgot to tivo it, no big deal because you can just catch it online.
Peter Epstein
http://www.thewebwar.com
You come back to watch content if you have missed it.
Will you come back to watch content again and again if that’s your primary source of information, merchandise, education, and relationships (2.0)?
http://twitter.com/pinakis
After scrolling through 100+ Comcast cable channels and finding nothing to watch, I just connect my laptop to my HDTV and there’s always something entertaining on the Internet!
PCTVCables.com
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