The market for home-networked CE devices has been trying to move past the early adopter stage, but this has not been occurring very quickly, In-Stat says. Although In-Stat’s consumer research shows that there has been progress, the majority of consumers still only use their home network for Internet sharing. “Improvement is still needed when it […]
In the same way that sport content was a major driver of pay-TV adoption, sports will be the single biggest driver of consumption for online video. Screen Digest forecast the number of online sports videos (OSV) streams/downloads served in the domestic US market will increase from 5.2bn last year to 10.8 billion by 2012. In […]
Symmetricom has released a study conducted by Multimedia Research Group (MRG) that assessed telecommunications service providers' requirements for IPTV test, measurement and monitoring solutions. Results of the study confirm that video quality is critical to the growth and success of IPTV, significantly affecting customer support calls and customer churn. Importantly, the study also revealed that […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid Changing channel through gestures and without a remote control will be possible very soon on the Telefonica-controlled IPTV platform, Imagenio, with more than 500,000 subscribers. Telefonica and the technology specialist Gesture Tek are joinly developing a system that can recognise user hand signs via the set-top-box (STB). The system […]
Global revenues from adult video chat services are expected to rise sharply over the next five years, reaching $1.5 billion by 2012, according to a report from Juniper Research. The report states that, while adoption levels of such services are comparatively low even by the standard of mobile adult services, the average monthly spend of […]
Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have joined forces to create a joint venture: Soft At Home. This structure is aimed at creating a standard for the interconnection of equipment within the multimedia ecosystem. Soft At Home is designed to facilitate the deployment and interoperability of digital equipment in the home and make it possible to […]
The DVB Board has approved the commercial requirements for the DVB-C2 specification. The demand for more advanced services has pushed the existing cable specification to its limits and DVB has therefore introduced the process to develop a set of commercial requirements and is looking for contributions towards a specification that will serve the cable industry […]
The FLO Forum, a global consortium of over 90 wireless industry leaders dedicated to the open standardisation of FLO (Forward Link-Only) technology for mobile multimedia broadcast, has announced the completion of the FLO Receiver Application Programming Interface (API) Specification. The news marks the latest step in the on-going OpenFLO initiative, which is designed to facilitate […]
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) have unveiled a partnership to produce AntennaWeb.org, an online antenna mapping programme designed to help consumers and electronics retailers determine the proper outdoor antenna to use in order to receive free local broadcast channels. The tool is particularly valuable to consumers as the […]
Over 17 million programmes have been streamed or downloaded on demand on BBC iPlayer in the first seven weeks since its marketing launch, according to the latest figures from the BBC. During January, over 2.2 million people watched a programme on BBC iPlayer, with approximately 11 million TV programmes streamed or downloaded on demand.