Internet Connected TV Sales Rising
For Live Internet TV lovers more used to watching content on the big screen, the good news is that sales of Internet enabled television sets growing rapidly according to reports from Quixel Research. This matches our expectancy of Inbuilt Internet TV decent the big issue for 2009
In the second quarter of 2009, the gross from inside the US from televisions that have built in Internet capabilities grew 40% to over $1 billion.
In terms of unit sales, shipments rose 70% to 620,000 units, compared to 365,000 units in the previous quarter, Quixel said. Unit sales in the first half of 2009 exceeded the total for 2008, which was 985,000 units.
“The timing is right for consumer adoption of connected TVs,” Quixel analyst Tamaryn Pratt said in a statement. “The bulk of domiciliate already have high-speed wideband in their homes, and with the increased accessibility of premium content via the Internet… manufacturers are capitalizing on consumers’ desire to watch programming on a much larger screen than their computer monitors.”
Internet connected plasma televisions in the second quarter showed the largest quarterly growth rate at 202% in terms of unit sales and 163% in revenue, which rose to $293 million from $111 million. Unit sales of connected LCD TVs rose by 40% and and revenue was up 20% to $795 million.
The Cable companies are also hotly pursuing an internet based pay television posture and of course ther is plenty of free content to watch vis these tv sets as well. You can be pretty plastered that soon all tv sets will come internet enabled further growing the internet tv sphere.
The field by Pew Internet and American Life Project who surveyed over 2250 people also came up with some other interesting online tv facts:-
62% of adult Internet users watched a video or tv show online, up from just 33% in December 2006, and online video use is near universal by people younger than 18.
Of course the growth of broadband enabled households has helped the massive growth of online video. High speed Internet enabled households is now exceeding 63% in America. The popularity of Web video sites like YouTube and Hulu are helping push the trend as well. And of course worldtvpc.
The percentage of men vs women watching online tv has changed as well. Men have eternally watched more online tv and video than women. However the gap has narrowed. The share of women who visit video sharing sites has grown from 46% in 2008 to 59% now. Among men, 65% now watch online video, up from 57% in just last year.
The online tv revolution is having a big impact on the cable TV companies too.
Over 22% of Americans reveal that they have cut back on their cable TV service and nearly a third of those people have connected the PC to the Large screen and watched internet TV on the big screen.
