FCC’s Annual Report on Video Competition

Wish I had more time to read through this, but this 161-page report has lots of details on video competition in U.S., including digital and mobile video. The new “Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for the Delivery of Video Programming” has data on competition among multichannel video
programming distributors, including cable operators, direct broadcast satellite
providers, local exchange carriers now entering the field, and others.

Among the findings: “The amount of web-based video provided over the Internet continues to increase significantly each year. The sale and rental of home videos, including videocassettes and DVDs, offer consumers an alternative to the premium and pay-per-view offerings of MVPDs. Video-on-demand services provided by cable, DBS, and Internet providers have emerged, in turn, as competitive alternatives to home video.”

Down the full PDF report here. For digital media related part, read page 60 onwars; and then skip to page 100 onwards about emerging technologies, including mobile video.

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