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BBC spent £5.7 million in setting up the BBC iPlayer prior its launch.

BC iPlayer project has total incremental development costs of £4.8 million over four years 

incremental cost to maintain the BBC iPlayer is approximately £4 million per annum

Some analysts question whether VoD can be as profitable as broadcast TV. The dual costs of piping internet video into the home and licensing content from producers - both paid out on a per-view basis - "may call into question the level of profits that can be made in the long term" from VoD, says David Cockram of Oliver & Ohlbaum, a media consultancy. "More people are taking more of the pie."

Broadcasters already have to pay companies providing "content delivery networks" to ensure their on-demand programming reaches viewers in good quality and without loading-time delays mid-video. Every time a programme is viewed online through their VoD services, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other broadcasters pay a CDN provider such as Akamai, Level 3 or, soon, BT.

Today, one half-hour programme costs between 2p and 5p to stream through a CDN every time it is viewed. That may not sound much, but with the BBC iPlayer serving up almost 60m TV shows in November, a broadcaster's CDN costs could already exceed £1m a month.

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Busting the Cord-Cutting Myth

subscribe to a broadband service, also reflect a younger population of college graduates

Thirteen percent of current pay TV subscribers in the US say they are "somewhat" or "very" likely to cancel their current subscription in the next twelve months—and not sign up with another provide

substitute services is the biggest factor,

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profits are likely to decrease

able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q

e companies have been losing half a million subscriber

During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate

Apple tax more or less levied on every single piece of media

prices are often better than iTunes

joint targeted advertising solution for multichannel video operators in North America.

two companies are integrating SeaChange’s AdPulse

BlackArrow’s Advanced Advertising System t

irst, it’s great to see that the internet is capable of such a high amount of live concurrent users of streaming media. The internet remains a great way of reaching at-work listeners: where it’s hard to smuggle in a radio, and reception conditions are far from ideal. However, acros all platforms (including FM/AM), the total ‘live concurrent users’ for radio peaks at 17.6 million (between 08:00 and 08:30, weekday mornings, according to RAJar q4/2008). UK internet broadcasting has hit a new record –

Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscribers, while France's Deezer has a meagre 0.3 per cent conversion rate,

Deezer and Spotify are accessible on iOS and Android devices)

large sums are being spent on streaming rights

Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.

Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,

All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk

ARM has design wins with Dell’s Latitude laptops and Lenovo’s Skylight smARtbook. Even Apple’s iPad and its A4 chip ARe believed to be ARM-based.

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Movie stores like Vudu’s also compete directly with the video-on-demand services of the cable companies,

They are making a bet on connected devices.”

says Apple iTunes accounts for 64.5% of all sales

Apple's market share is slipping: it accounted for nearly three-quarters ( 74.4%) of all online movie sales in 2009. Its competitors are taking a few bites here and there: Microsoft has increased its market share from 11.6% to 17.9%. It offers titles via the X-Box 360 and Microsoft Zune. Sony, which sells movies online through the PlayStation 3 player and select Sony Bravia HDTVs, has gone from 5.7 % to 7.2% in 2010. The rest of the bunch accounts collectively for 10.4% of the market, up from 8.3% in 2009--and that includes Wal-Mart's Vudu se

iSuppli said online movie sales increased 60%in 2010, but the company did not release actual sales numbers

RIM's BlackBerry handsets were the best selling smartphones in the UK for 2010

n December 2010, BlackBerry's market share went to a record high of 36 per cent, with a 51.1 per cent share for pre-pay deals and 23.3 per cent for contract free phones

It had sold over 129 million BlackBerry smartphones worldwide