BlueHighways TV Begins Roll-Out On Verizon FiOS – December 1, 2008 BlueHighways TV announced today the start of its launch on Verizon’s FiOS TV. BHTV will now be available to FiOS subscribers on Channel 246 in New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC, Salisbury, MD, Richmond, VA and Norfolk, VA.
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TV programs, watching online videos and making online phone calls posted the biggest
year-to-year percent increase among adult Internet users, according to new data from Mediamark
Research & Intelligence.
E-mail, news gathering and paying bills online continue to be among the most widely
used Internet activities by U.S. consumers ages 18+, the MRI data show.
According to responses from MRI’s just released Fall 2008 Survey of the American Consumer,
3.2% of adults said they had downloaded a TV program in the last 30 days. That represents
a year-to-year increase of 141.4%. The number of adults who reported they watched
online video increased 35.4% during the same period, to a total of 23.3% of the adult
population, while 4.0% of respondents reported they had made an online phone call,
an increase of 32.0%.
The Internet activities engaged in by the greatest number of adults were use of e-mail
(74.2%), obtaining news (46%) and paying bills online (39.6%). These have been popular
online activities among adults for several years.
MRI began measuring Internet activities in 1997 and continually adds new Internet
behavior questions to its survey. The fall 2008 data include four new Internet activities:
sharing photos (done by one in four adults in the last 30 days); sending electronic
greeting cards (9% of adults); watching a live TV program online (5.3% of the U.S.
adult population); and uploading or adding video to a Web site (4.1% of adults).
Internet Activities
U.S. Adults with Access to the Internet
Which, if any, of these activities % %
did you do on the Internet in the All Adults Change From
last 30 days? Fall 2008 Fall 2007
Used E-mail 74.2 +5.2
Obtained the Latest News/Current Events 46.0 +9.8
Paid Bills Online 39.6 +15.3
Made a Purchase for Personal Use 37.2 +7.8
Used Instant Messenger 29.7 +23.6
Obtained Financial Information 28.3 +9.6
Obtained Sports News/Information 28.1 +10.6
Shared Photos Through Internet Website 25.4 N/A
Looked for Recipes 24.8 +24.8
Played Games Online 24.6 +8.0
Watched Online Video 23.3 +35.4
Downloaded Music 21.6 +9.6
Made Personal or Business Travel Plans 20.5 +3.6
Obtained Medical Information 19.9 +4.3
Looked up Movie Listings or Show Times 19.7 +16.8
Visited a TV network's or TV show's website 18.7 +15.4
Looked for Employment 15.3 +23.6
Tracked Investments/Traded Stocks,
Bonds or Mutual Funds 13.2 +14.7
Listened to Radio on the Internet 13.1 +10.4
Obtained Information about Real Estate 12.9 +5.4
Made a Purchase for Business Use 11.4 +3.4
Visited Online Blogs 11.0 +17.9
Obtained Information for a New Car Purchase 10.6 No change
Sent an Electronic Greeting Card 9.0 N/A
Looked at TV Listing Online 7.7 +5.9
Obtained Childcare or Parenting Information 5.3 +12.7
Watched A Live TV Program 5.3 N/A
Wrote an Online Blog 4.3 +16.3
Uploaded or Added Video to a Website 4.1 N/A
Made a Phone Call Online 4.0 +32.0
Downloaded a Podcast 3.8 +22.1
Downloaded a TV Program 3.2 +141.4
Source: MRI's Fall 2008 and Fall 2007 Survey of the American Consumer
N/A=New MRI Question; Not asked in Fall '07
Field Dates for MRI's Fall 2008 survey: September 2007 to October 2008
Note: During the personal interview, MRI asks readers of individual magazines if,
as a result of reading that magazine, they visited the magazine’s website. That data
are not included in this general Internet Activities data
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HaiVision Launches PIRANHA Combining Audio and Video With Metadata for Low Latency H.264 Encoding Application – November 11, 2008 HaiVision Systems Inc., the world’s leading vendor of high performance H.264 HD and SD video codecs, today announced the availability of the new PIRANHA encoding platform. The PIRANHA, based on HaiVision’s low-latency H.264 encoding engine, combines time-based metadata with compressed video and audio into industry-standard MPEG transport streams.
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Harmonic’s MPEG-4 AVC Digital Video Splicer Completes Microsoft Mediaroom Conformance Testing – Harmonic Inc. today announced that its ProStream™ 2000 digital video splicer has successfully completed conformance testing for real-time splicing of national MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) video streams of the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) platform.
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According to a new report by telecoms analyst, Analysys Mason, the roll-out of IPTV will drive the further adoption of pay-TV in Western Europe, leading to growth in the market.
The report – ‘Pay TV in Western Europe: market sizings and forecasts 2005-2013′ suggests 3.2% growth in the number of pay-TV households, from 90.6 million [...]
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