Over two-thirds of American pay television subscribers would be willing to switch providers if offered a price discount of 20 per cent, according to a report just published by Strategy Analytics. While Cable customers were the most likely to churn, only half as many (33 per cent) of Telco TV/IPTV subscribers would switch. The report, […]
According to the research report “Global Mobile TV Forecast to 2013” by RNCOS, the number of mobile TV subscribers are projected to grow at a CAGR of over 45 per cent between 2009 and 2013 to reach around 450 Million by end-2013. The study predicts that Asia-Pacific region will dominate the global mobile TV market, […]
The Philippines government may push back the deadline for the migration to digital terrestrial TV given the unresolved matter of which platform will be adopted. “2015 might be a stretch to achieve. We have to move it, but hopefully not 2020,” Secretary Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) said. […]
Pace Networks, a specialised division of digital TV technologies developer Pace, has signed Brazil-based Visionbyte as its first Networks Approved Partner (NAP) in the Latin American market. Pace Networks' global partner programme supports the rollout of its MultiDweller distribution platform, which Visionbyte will use to extend the reach of SD and HD services to smaller […]
Viasat Broadcasting has strengthened its HDTV offering in the Baltic region with the launch of MTVNHD on its pay-TV platform. MTVNHD is an international high definition service dedicated to music and kids. An agreement has been signed with MTV Networks International for inclusion to Viasat's satellite TV subscribers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
ST-Ericsson, a global expert in wireless semiconductors and platforms, has launched a family of single-chip 1080p high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) transmitters to enable streaming of HD multimedia content from mobile devices to TVs. Consumers will now be able to easily connect their mobile devices to digital as well as old, analogue televisions to playback HD […]
Bangalore-based NextBiT Computing has designed and developed the Intellectual Property (IP) and solutions for an Over the Top (OTT) STB. The company will now deliver the first batch of 50,000 units to a China-based OEM by February 2010. NextBiT has added more features to the OTT STB to make it a complete converged communication and […]
Richard Halton, BBC programme director for Project Canvas, has said it could accelerate growth in the market for connected TV devices by 70 per cent up to 2015. Canvas could also, he said, lead to between 500,000 and 870,000 homes going online, delivering a value of £300 million (E344m) over six years at today's prices. […]
Virgin Media has claimed it can outpace BT on broadband speeds, reach parity with Sky in the range of its programming and has no pressing need to sell assets, so says CEO Neil Berkett laying out growth plans and forecasting a profitable future. Virgin Media secured an advantage over BT last year by offering customers […]
The French VOD market continues to see growth, mainly driven by operator offers. According to preliminary figures from GFK, the VOD market grew to over E80 million in 2009, up from E53 million in 2008. TV VOD represents from 80 per cent to 90 per cent of VOD revenues in France. In this market, Orange […]