Comments on: Web-to-TV Streaming to Hit $2.9 Billion

By: Netflix Streaming Coming to Sony PlayStation 3

Netflix Streaming Coming to Sony PlayStation 3 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:26:07 +0000

[...] are predicted to be a dominant force in the over-the-top delivery space, which is predicted to hit $2.9 billion by 2013. Second, it hooks Netflix streaming up with a content partner in Sony, so hopefully that [...]

By: Sony PS3 Gives Good VOD, Xbox Getting New Vid Goodies

Sony PS3 Gives Good VOD, Xbox Getting New Vid Goodies — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:48:51 +0000

[...] Game consoles are the most popular device for digital delivery of web-based video to TV sets, according to recent research from In-Stat, a trend that will continue through 2013. By that time, In-Stat predicts that the revenues generated by web-to-TV video services will hit $2.9 billion. [...]

By: Game On: Consoles to Rule Web-to-TV Video Delivery

Game On: Consoles to Rule Web-to-TV Video Delivery — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:27:37 +0000

[...] in delivering web video to TV sets. In-Stat predicts that revenues from such delivery will hit $2.9 billion by 2013, while the number of U.S. broadband households watching web video on TV will grow to 24 million [...]

By: Xbox Live Gets Social With Twitter and Facebook

Xbox Live Gets Social With Twitter and Facebook — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:45:31 +0000

[...] moves touch on many of the trends we follow here at NTV: social TV, on-demand video, and gesture controls, and with Xbox Live’s 20 million users, it pushes all of them more into [...]

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:48:26 +0000

Hey Alex,

You are correct. Head on over to our sister site GigaOM where they have been on top of the bandwidth cap/metered broadband debate.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:26:16 +0000

Usage caps or metered billing will be a major hurdle that broadband providers will throw up to slow the growth of web based TV consumption.

By: NN

NN — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:07:59 +0000

Well if you add the Huluers, the Youtubians and the torrenters all perfectly capable of connecting their tvs to their pcs the numbers doesn't seem that farfetched, though the direction more than the numbers are the important thing here, when the next generation of internet ready tvs come along the walls between the internet and tv will go down permanently. The Samsung with the built in internet connection, media player and USB ports for easy transfer of media files makes me drool :)

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:59:02 +0000

@Marisa - I agree, the percentage seemed a bit high to me.

By: Marisa Gallagher

Marisa Gallagher — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:23:03 +0000

This could be pretty exciting, though it's hard to believe the figures are really that high. Did that number seem a little over the top to you, too, or can you picture it? Broadband penetration rates (according to Pew) were only 55% in May 2008 (maybe up to 65% today, if we're lucky?) That seems to mean that around 2/3rds of all broadband users hook their broadband connections up to their TVs. Perhaps the In-Stat folks are using a different base set of numbers and accounting for "internet video on TVs" is some super-liberal way. If not, it seems hard to fully buy-in to, even though we'd want to.

By: Chris Albrecht

Chris Albrecht — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Hi Mark,

They didn't, but I'll see what I can dig up.