Comments on: Video On Demand Usage Grows, Still Tiny

By: 10 pistes d’évolution pour la TV (sur Internet) | Owni.fr

10 pistes d’évolution pour la TV (sur Internet) | Owni.fr — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:57:00 +0000

[...] probablement pourquoi la VOD sur les écrans de télé (sur les set-top boxes typiquement) reste largement minoritaire… et pourquoi la VOD sur Internet explose. L’avenir de la TV est-elle dans le Web? La Télé [...]

By: 10 pistes d’évolution pour la télé (sur Internet) ! | ReadWriteWeb France

10 pistes d’évolution pour la télé (sur Internet) ! | ReadWriteWeb France — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:01:48 +0000

[...] probablement pourquoi la VOD sur les écrans de télé (sur les set-top boxes typiquement) reste largement minoritaire… et pourquoi la VOD sur Internet [...]

By: Visual Media « The Media Mash-Up

Visual Media « The Media Mash-Up — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:52:22 +0000

[...] While video-on-demand is still a tiny portion of daily viewing, its usage is growing. In July, according to Rentrak, there were 655 million orders which is an 11% increase over June. The amount of time that people spend watching VOD has also increased by quite a bit – by 47%. Interestingly, 476 million of those transactions were free ones, and a third of them were music-related content. Next up after music was kids programming, which climbed 18% in July. http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/01/video-on-demand-usage-grows-still-tiny/25943 [...]

By: K. Kofron

K. Kofron — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:34:12 +0000

When will Damages be back for a new season? Thank you

By: Brian Fahrlander

Brian Fahrlander — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:52:28 +0000

The more people pull up free, wonderful, effective tools like XBMC (http://xmbc.org) and get the plugin, the better.

I used to download Royal Pains- it’s online, so now I won’t. I can watch it at any time. Think I’m alone? People still using Windows get badgered by posioned P2P and can’t get the shows when they want to watch it. But make it available at will, and P2P will drop off in large and important ways!

I don’t own a TV. And I keep hearing that from people. We’re sick of the old style, and want to watch what, and when, we want to watch it. PLEASE FEEL FREE to insert ads like those for Saab on Burn Notice. They’re effective and don’t get in the way. Just don’t force me to be distracted 10 times an hour with the exact same 30-second spot.

The networks can pull this off…they just have to WANT to. It’s worthless to have a gallery of ‘clips’. No one will watch them. Full episodes, or don’t. I’ve waited a long time to watch TV on the net; it’s almost here, now.

And get a look at XBMC! It’s for Linux, Mac, and Windows, as well as the Xbox from which it came! Good, good stuff!

By: themsnumbers

themsnumbers — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:22:33 +0000

I wish we could have a study done on the impact of Video On Demand at large, but recorded in a more methodical way. Sure, it sounds great to give a large number that represents every time someone accidentally hit the “On Demand” button on the top of their Comcast remote (once a week for me probably), but that’s not really useful, is it?

I’d like some kind of sample of how many people have taught their kids how it works, or taught their parents how it works. I guess things like that all fall under your “dropping the ball” blanket, Bill.

What I’d really like to see, would be some kind of experiment related to putting something on there the way that you’d watch it on Hulu or even regular TV, with no fast forward feature, to see how people use it.

What kind of numbers could you get if you took True Blood’s first season, added in some commercials, and put it on the free section of On Demand. How about just the previous night’s American Idol or something? “Did you miss it? Forget to record it? Here it is!”

I guess, though, that those suggestions are silly because we have to assume that everyone with On Demand has a DVR, and if they’re not recording a show, then they’re not going to want to watch it On Demand anyway.