forest signals

We’ve seen some interesting benchmarks over the last couple of days that point to the maturation of the online video space. Some consumers are saying they’d be willing to pay — pay! — for web video if it were ad-free. A leading vendor of premium video is seeing its stats take off. And a research firm taking a hard look at the movie business has decided that video on demand will never make enough money to pay for the cost of a traditional big-budget movie.

First up, 11 percent of respondents…