Online TV Is The Place To Watch News And Sitcoms

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More and more people these days are watching more TV online and less TV on the television set. Is it a natural progression or maybe the old technology that is a standard tv set is losing the battle of the eyeballs.


A newly released report from Conference Board which was revealed on Tuesday shows that around a quarter of all homes in the US are getting their tv fix online. Although you may say its only a quarter, it is also up around 5% on last years figure of 20%.
The survey also revealed that news streams were most popular and had a viewership of 43% of internet tv viewers, next up was sitcoms, comedies and dramas, viewed by 35%. Reality shows and surprisingly sports cam next with 20% and 18% respectively.


Viewing numbers of Hulu's online TV service, showing streams from NBC, ABC, Fox amongst others, nearly quadrupled from last year as online tv dragged more and more mainstream viewers into its grasp.
So where does everyone watch online tv? The survey showed that 90% of online viewers watch at home. But a rather naughty 10% watch at the office. Whilst they should be working i wonder?
News and sitcoms are the most popular show to watch, which ties in with our post of YouTube to rent movies online. Their viewers are reluctant to watch the currently free full length movies as viewers are still not comfortable watching over 90 minutes of conntent in one sitting (Numb bum anyone?).

Number one DVD by mail and instant Movie download company, Netflix shares have taken a dive. And the guilty party responsible are Youtube, after planning to offer their own pay to watch movie streams service.
Netflix who have enjoyed having little competition in this market saw their shares down 3.57% to $40.29 on September 3rd. YouTube are deep in negotiations for offering Movies on a pay per download/watch basis.
Netflix have been offering an on demand internet movies service to existing subscribers of its DVD by mail rental service for nearly two years. Netflix subscribers pay an additional fee to watch unlimited movies online. This resulted in massive growth for Netflix.
The service has also found its way to Microsoft's Xbox games machine, TiVo and other set top boxes.
The video giant owned by Google have been making deals with professional content providers for a long time—including Disney, MGM, and Lions Gate amongst others in the last year.
If the deal happens as expected, the competitive edge that Netflix has in the online video rental business would began to diminish.
On July 23, 2009, Netflix reported better than expected profits and even raised its forecast for the year. Netflix iare obviously optimistic about the next couple of quarters, but smart investors are cutting and running.
Of course if the Youtube experiment is a success, there are many other online websites that would happily offer a similar paid service.
However everyone including the big networks now seems to realise that the speeding train that is the online TV revolution is an unstoppable force that can be manouvered slightly left or right, but never stopped.