My own view is that, even if we soon have near-universal broadband access, the switch from live to on-demand mainstream viewing, if it ever happens, will be well past the year 2020.
A mainstream picture, it is not the type of fare that is usually offered by New York's IFC, where it opens September 10th in tandem with its availability via the On Demand feature of cable TV.
There are probably a myriad of reasons why Akimbo had to shut its doors, but when it comes to IPTV, video-on demand, and other non-mainstream entertainment delivery systems, you're only as good as your content.
Netflix, not cable companies, brought online subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) into the mainstream.
YouTube and Spotify have both helped on-demand grow into a mainstream mode of legal music consumption, with a total user base that is likely somewhere between paid downloads (iTunes, Amazon) and Internet radio ( Pandora, iHeartRadio).
It's unclear how large the market for live streaming TV is today – after all, many consumers who are cutting the cord are doing so because there's enough to watch via the mainstream, on-demand services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
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While there are some services in the commission-on-demand space, few cater to mainstream, affordable tastes.
For now, video on demand also remains dwarfed by mainstream TV, with linear TV channels accounting for 75% of all video (an average of five hours a day) consumed by people in the UK in 2013, according to commercial TV marketing body Thinkbox.
I'm set, but the Apple TV should satisfy most mainstream consumers' need for on-demand content.
