CacheLogic’s latest independent (YouGov) survey of 2,400 people in the UK has revealed that 85% of surfers have never downloaded a full-length TV programme or movie, largely due to poor Internet performance and quality concerns:


There may be plenty of 8Mbps+ broadband packages on the market, yet few ever achieve the top speed and even those with reasonable connections often suffer big drops in performance due to congestion and other technical factors. Such problems can seriously impact video on demand (VoD) services, as some of BT Vision’s customers might attest.

Despite all this the market for casual online video content, thanks largely to sites such as YouTube, continues to grow at a lightning pace.