CTV Websites serve up over 500 million video streams in 2010 - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums

hugh · 2011-01-04, 09:19 AM

Found this kind of interesting.

CTV announced that its website properties which include CTV, TSN, Comedy Network, and Discovery Channel streamed more than 500 million videos last year.

That works out to just under 54 million video streams each month and is 46% increase over 2009.

madhi19 · 2011-01-06, 02:35 AM

How much of it is due to CTV "owning" Canadian rights for Comedy Central content? Talk about a bunch of parasites! I would not brag too much about 500 millions video views a years after all YouTube get two billion videos views a week!

Neild · 2011-01-08, 08:11 AM

Several dozen of those were my attempts, which I abandoned after finding the stream was painfully stalled, stuttering, or buffered.

smootherator · 2011-01-08, 08:51 AM

I use CTV website quite often as my own PVR for shows I miss. I find them reliable and quick to post aired shows.

Thank you CTV for providing this service

TorontoColin · 2011-01-16, 04:15 PM

Does this include the Vancouver Olympic streams? If so, I'd have expected an even bigger increase.

99semaj · 2011-01-17, 09:23 AM

I'm sure the Olympics was the most significant driver. They probably could have had even more if they didn't use Silverlight.

hugh · 2011-01-17, 09:26 AM

It does include Olympics streams.

Arc|Angel · 2011-01-26, 06:09 PM

I'm an online streaming cord cutter and I can't bare the low quality and horrible CTV interface. The olympics were another matter though, beautiful and amazing coverage.

2011-01-04, 09:19 AM	#1
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2011-01-17, 09:26 AM	#7
hugh Member #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 47,492	It does include Olympics streams. __________________ As of January 2012, I am no longer the owner of the Digital Home website. If you have questions about the operation of the site, please contact VSAdmin. For personal inquiries contact me at the Hugh Thompson website.

2011-01-26, 06:09 PM	#8
Arc\|Angel Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Brampton - 20" Canadian Tire Electrohome Turn Dial TV; BetaMax; 386sx20mhz w/ 256 colours! Posts: 243	I'm an online streaming cord cutter and I can't bare the low quality and horrible CTV interface. The olympics were another matter though, beautiful and amazing coverage. __________________ XBOX & PS3: ArcAngelMD Wii: When I find a pen

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2011-01-06, 02:35 AM	#2
madhi19 Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 363	How much of it is due to CTV "owning" Canadian rights for Comedy Central content? Talk about a bunch of parasites! I would not brag too much about 500 millions video views a years after all YouTube get two billion videos views a week!

2011-01-08, 08:11 AM	#3
Neild Veteran Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,017	Several dozen of those were my attempts, which I abandoned after finding the stream was painfully stalled, stuttering, or buffered.

2011-01-08, 08:51 AM	#4
smootherator Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 699	I use CTV website quite often as my own PVR for shows I miss. I find them reliable and quick to post aired shows. Thank you CTV for providing this service

2011-01-16, 04:15 PM	#5
TorontoColin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Toronto, Wind Mobile, Rogers Cable, Teksavvy Extreme Cable Posts: 3,229	Does this include the Vancouver Olympic streams? If so, I'd have expected an even bigger increase.

2011-01-17, 09:23 AM	#6
99semaj Veteran Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: /dev/null Posts: 2,664	I'm sure the Olympics was the most significant driver. They probably could have had even more if they didn't use Silverlight.