In honor of Friday the 13th, here are 13 stats for your end-of-the-week enjoyment.
- In-Stat projects telco TV subscribers will more than triple by the end of 2012 to 71.6 million
- Analyst Dave Burstein predicts we’ll see DOCSIS 3.0 in 70-80% of US homes by 2012 or 2013
- Netflix announced it has reached the 10-million subscriber mark… which, according to one analyst could end up being good news for cable VOD.
- A report by Knowledge Networks finds that 21% of online users between ages 13 and 54 now watch full episodes of TV programs online
- US Internet users viewed a record 14.3 billion videos online in December according to ComScore
- The current proposed US economic stimulus bill includes 7.2 billion dollars for the broadband industry
- Motorola shipped more than 11 million modems in 2008 (close to 11.5 – and you knew I had to throw in a Motorola stat)
- The total number of fiber-to-the-home connections in Europe is nearing 2 million
- The Consumer Electronics Association predicts 16.7 million flat-screen TVs over 35″ will be sold in 2009, up 16% over 2008
- Motorola has shipped more than 1,000 TX32 cards for increasing downstream channels in a cable modem termination system (You knew another Motorola stat would pop up in here)
- 368 TV stations are approved to make the transition to all-digital on the original D-day, February 17th
- ABI Research predicts half a billion mobile TV viewers by 2013
- SNL Kagan expects EBIF to roll out to 25 million-plus more digital cable and Verizon FiOS subscribers this year – interactive TV here we come!
