Quotable Quotes and Statistics :

In February, nearly 175 million US viewers watched over 28 billion videos, averaging 161 videos per month.

-- comScore

“Consumers want devices that can navigate the universe of video programming from all of these sources and present the choices to them in a simple, integrated way”

-- Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman

Active mobile video users grew by 57% to 17.6 million people between Q4 2008 and Q4 2009

-- Nielson Media Company

“Interest in viewing the Web on television sets is so strong that consumers are making their own connections through PCs and video game consoles.”

-- Antone Gonsalves, Information Week

“Consumers want the best of both worlds: pay-TV and OTT video. Nearly 40% of consumer broadband household respondents want a combination of linear TV and on-demand TV”

-- Keith Nissen, In-Stat

“[T]he Internet's ability to offer an almost infinite selection is part of what makes it so appealing: people can find things that don't sell well enough to warrant shelf space in a neighborhood music store or video rental shop — think of the obscure books on Amazon.com. The ease of digital video production and the ubiquity of high-speed Internet connections are sending the long tail of video into the living rooms of the world, live and in color."

-- Saul Hansell, NY Times

“The Qtv player launches later this year and … thanks to the free 30-day trial the hardest part may be remembering where we left our PS2s.

-- Richard Lawler, Engadget