Eight Hours a Day Watching TV by 2013

U.S. consumers will spend as much time consuming video by the year 2013 as they do sleeping!

“People are spending a lot more time with alternative forms, like PC-delivered video,” said Kaan Yigit. The analyst with Solutions Research Group added, “We believe the pie is expanding, and the appetite for video is remarkable, and non-video consumption on the net is converting, and there is and will be ambient video everywhere.”

The average American 12 and older spends about six hours a day with video-based entertainment today, up from 4.6 hours in 1996. That number will steadily increase to about eight hours in 2013. Video-based entertainment will include video games, Internet video, DVDs and mobile video.

But not all segments of the video pie will grow. The study found that PC, Web video and mobile video consumption will rise to about 2.9 hours per day from less than one hour today, while TV likely will shrink in market share.

CLICK HERE to READ MORE By Daisy Whitney at http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/06/web_video_consumption_seen_hit.php

©2008 Crain Communications, Inc.

Disposable Film Fest

According to a tip from Eric Slatkin, founder of Disposable Film Festival , his new venture "was created to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on alternative cameras like one time use video cameras, cell phones, webcams, screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices."

It's gaining a lot of buzz with live screenings already booked in San Francisco, New York, and LA. (Online screenings will also be provided by Vimeo for the outlanders.)

This is their second year with the festival, and promises to be an interesting experiment. How often have people caught amazing stuff - only to wish it wasn't a 300 - 400 pixel rendering on a camera phone?

The Deadline for 2009 submissions is July 31st, 2008.