The average Briton will spend nearly 10 years of their life watching TV according to a study from household retailer PerfectHome. Brits sit through an avergage of 27 hours of TV programing per week according to the poll of 2000 adults. The poll also revealed that, despite modern, big-budget offering such as Game of Thrones and […]
Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology is modifying its plans to produce large-panel displays for Ultra HD television from its new $10 billion Wisconsin factory, according to reports from Japan. The Wisconsin factory was unveiled in July 2017, and now Foxconn says that while the investment remains unchanged, it would concentrate on a diversified portfolio of screens including […]
According to Dataxis forecasts, the pay-TV market in the ex-USSR countries will grow at a 1.6 per cent CAGR between 2017 and 2023 to reach 59.7 million subscribers. The Russian market represents 80 per cent of the total today and its share should remain stable until the end of the period. Pay-TV revenues will approach […]
Russia has plans to join the club of major players with massive satellite constellations. Russian news agency TASS says that Russian Space Systems Company (Roscosmos) wants to create a global constellation of 288 satellites, operating from 870 kms above the ground. The constellation, called Efir, would start operating in 2025, says the report quoting project […]
Rooftop Immersive Studio has announced a deal with AMC Networks International Southern Europe to aggregate and distribute VR content. The comapnies said the deal is the first step towards consolidating a lasting and dedicated partnership. Rooftop Immersive Studio will aggregate VR content on a monthly basis from a wide pallet of genres with a focus […]
Iron Dragon TV has signed a deal with martial arts league Karate Combat to feature content on the Iron Dragon TV channels. Karate Combat features the first professional, full-contact league. The league consists of over 100 of the top Karateka in the world representing over 30 countries. Developed by martial arts experts and top competitors, […]
Philip Hammond, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has targeted seeing full-fibre to the premises connections being available to 15 million premises by 2025 and committed to delivering a nationwide full-fibre to the premises network by 2033. Delivering a speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Annual Dinner 2018, Hammond said that the government […]
Netflix’s market value has this week increased to around $150 billion (€128.3bn); making it worth some $2 billion more than US cable giant Comcast. Comcast has been losing video subscribers as a result of cord-cutting trends bought about by the rise in streaming services. Comcast had 22.3 million pay-TV subscribers in the first quarter of […]
For the first time, IPTV reception has drawn level with DTT in France, registering a penetration rate of 55 per cent of TV homes in the second half of 2017, according to data from the CSA’s Observatory for audiovisual equipment. The CSA forecasts that IPTV will rapidly become the primary TV reception mode on all […]
A study from Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley says that 39 per cent of US consumers surveyed believe that Netflix offers the “best original programming”. This time last year the same study found that 33 per cent of viewers rated Netflix as Number 1 in original programming. The bank’s study surveyed 3100 adults aged […]