Global shipments of HD Set-Top Boxes, camcorders, DVD players and video-game consoles are expected to triple from 2008 to 2012, as HD becomes the ubiquitous video standard worldwide, according to iSuppli Corp. Global shipments of HD-capable equipment in these categories will rise to 202 million units by 2012, up from 68.9 million in 2008. By […]
Approximately 40 million users watch mobile TV based on broadcast networks, in addition to those watching mobile TV streams via 3G networks – but this is well below initial projections and only about 1% of all mobile phone users. Even the business models in markets with sizeable numbers of broadcast mobile TV subscribers – such […]
ITN has appointed John Hardie, a senior executive at Disney and former ITV commercial director, as its chief executive. Hardie, who succeeds Mark Wood who left ITN in February after six years, takes up the role in June. Hardie, 47, executive vice-president and managing director of Walt Disney Television across Europe, Middle East and Africa, […]
IP video convergence encoding solutions provider Envivio is to supply its Convergence Series video headend for Türk Telekom's IPTV project in Turkey. Türk Telekom, one of the world's largest Tier 1 operators serving more than 30 million customers, will use Envivio 4Caster C4 SD and 4Caster HD30 HD MPEG-4 AVC encoders and the 4Manager NMS, […]
NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, unveiled the new STB150 system solution, delivering a complete production-ready platform for the fast growing digital cable TV services market. The NXP STB150 integrates the powerful new single-chip CX2448x MPEG-2 decoder for DVB-C reception with a TDA18252HN silicon tuner and complete software stack, giving cable operators […]
Comms industry market researcher Dell’Oro Group, has reported that the global IPTV subscriber base grew by 3.2 million in the fourth quarter to reach 23 million subscribers at the end of 2008, nearly double the number at the end of 2007. While Europe, Middle East, and Africa remained the largest market for unit shipments of […]
US Cable companies, which have begun to deploy new technology that will enable them to deliver faster Internet speeds to customers, should have the enhanced broadband service available to nearly all of their customers within the next five years, according to a forecast by market research provider Pike & Fischer. DOCSIS 3.0 will help cable […]
Oxford Economics institute in UK says online piracy cost the industry £235 million (E253m) in 2008 – that's nearly half of the £531 million the group says was lost to piracy of all kinds. But the annual online loss could be reduced to £83.2 million if downloaders received an ISP warning and if detection technologies […]
The Media Development Authority (MDA) has confirmed that the Government aims to spend $160 million this year to sustain the growth momentum of Singapore's media sector amidst the economic downturn. This spending, which includes funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) to boost research and development in interactive digital media, as well as support for […]
US reports say the Council for Research Excellence, a cross-industry think tank of top executives from agencies and TV networks, has spent the past year executing a $3.5 million project called the "Video Consumer Mapping Study." The initiative is described as, "the largest and most significant observational study of media activity ever undertaken." Shari Anne […]