Responding to a PC Advisor poll, almost one in six web users - 14.7 percent - said they never watch online video at all.
And the respondents who do watch clips online don't seem to be hooked. The largest proportion of respondents - 49.7 percent - said they watched 'the odd clip'.
The issue may be a question of bandwidth. Online video fan and PC Advisor forum member Chegs ®™ commented: "I had to purchase additional bandwidth (fortunately, I'm no longer on such a low bandwidth cap though this was still 25Gbs and am presently on 40Gb cap)."
Forum member bremner. meanwhile, said: "It has to be the case that use will be dependent upon a broadband connection. My use of iPlayer has changed by necessity since moving house and going from Virgin 20Mb unlimited to BT 2.5Mb with a 10GB a month limit."
There remains a hardcore of regular video consumers, but they are only slightly larger than the group who never watch any video at all - 17.8 percent of respondents said they watch 'About an hour per day'.
The remaining 17.8 percent indicated that they watch about an hour per week.
A total of 197 people had responded to the poll at time of writing. Click here to vote in the poll, or join the discussion on the subject.
Comments
Cyteck said: To be honest its not the delivery system technology that really matters when it comes to online video or TV show catch up services Its the content that is king here IMO who cares if the technology is utterly wonderful at delivering the show if the show itself is a heap of rubbish Ye 99 channels and nothing worth watching which is like UK freeview already
Cyteck said: Video online in any form is 99 let down by the dreadful image quality because the content is being streamed from servers geographically remote Even the BBCs iPlayer suffers from this If the video is streamed from outside the UK then usually the quality is even worse Image lagging amp framing stutter make video still not the best of experiences Only once much higher broadband bit rates are common ie VDSL such as 40Mbps will watching video over the internet be more viable Its only just starting to reach the quality needed but it has much further to go