While everyone raves about Hulu and Youtube etc. The usual suspects are being caught up by a surprise challenger, Facebook!
The social networking expression has exploded latterly with every Tom, Dick and Harry Twittering and posting onto Facebook, til now a Nielsen report shows Facebook is the third biggest streaming website.
Of words YouTube was top streaming website for October with a monumental 6.6 billion streams delivered, which put their nearest competitor to shame. New boy Hulu only managed a negligible 632 million streams. astonishingly, however, the number three spot went to Facebook, who served 217 million videos.
Lets be reliable though, if Facebook decided to run for president right now they would probably walk it. The fact is though, a social networking site is never going to be top dtreaming site.. Is it?
After eld of promises and dissapointments, online tv is only now becoming part of popular culture. You dont need to be a geek to watch online tv anymore, so what has changed and why has it finally taken off?
The popular broadcasters and providers have all given their view, and it seems to be a end of things that have tilted live internet tv onto the front page.
Claire Tavernier of Fremantle FMX thinks that it has been due to the two standout online tv providers. The BBC iPlayer for UK and Hulu in the US have made the masses finally accept watching online video. These quality sites provide a good showtime of quality, relevant capability and advertize its accessibility on major TV transports.
Richard Davidson-Houston of Channel 4 says that it all comes down to reccomendations and the fact that laptops are taking the office of second TVs are driving the trend. He also thinks that watching catch up tv has been a major factor. Watching last nights missed tv shows online is a big draw.
All of these reasons are great in themselves, but add them all together and you get a compellling reason why online tv is booming.
Those fears may soon be in the past, NEC Electronics and Japanese company Soundability have created Nirvana for TV users. A remote control that requires no batteries.
This ingenious beast creates its own power whenever a viewer presses a button. Every time you hop channels or change the ledger. electricity is created through the power of vibration, the energy is then used to power the remote and get away from those annoying ad breaks.
count at the prototype, lets just hope they can absorb a designer, the existing one looks like he was around in the 60’s
