A broad cross section of executives from the telecom, cable, broadcast, mobile, satellite, consumer electronics, ISP and content businesses--but heavily weighted to broadcast industry firms--think video is the consumer service with the brightest prospects for growth in 2009.
In total, about 70 percent of survey respondents to a Pike & Fischer survey are from the video or radio industries, so it perhaps is not surprising that online video and high-definition TV emerged as the applications seen as having the greatest opportunities for growth in 2009.
About 27 percent of respondents cited Web-based video as the broadband application that will generate the highest adoption rates in 2009, though a quarter believe HDTV will get the biggest number of new users.
But executives from cable and telephone companies were most likely to see online video as the fastest-growing application in 2009. More than half of cable executives and 56 percent of telephone industry executives said they believed online video would have the greatest growth.
About 40 percent of content provider executives and 29 percent of broadcast industry executives thought HDTV would be the fastest-growing app this year, a prediction boosted by the digital TV transition, which by definition replaces standard-definition over the air broadcasting with HDTV substitutes.
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