Report Notes Health of European VOD Market

STRASBOURG, May 7: There are more than 150 video-on-demand
services operating in 24 countries in Europe, according to a new report.

The report is from the French Directorate for the
Development of the Media (Direction du Développement des Médias DDM) and the
European Audiovisual Observatory.

France leads the pack with 20 services, followed by the
Netherlands with 19, the U.K. with 13, Germany with 12 and Belgium with 10. Of
the total 150-plus services, 94 are delivered via the Internet to users’ PCs,
and 47 are delivered via broadband IPTV and can be accessed on TV sets.

Of the content being offered on the services, more than half
of the titles available are films. VOD release on the same day as the DVD
release is becoming more frequent, mainly in the Scandinavian countries.