The French catch-up market will more than quadruple by 2015 says NPA Conseil. In “The Catch Up Market in France” the researcher says the market will be worth €300 million by 2015 across connected TVs tablets and mobile phones. Meanwhile a joint report from the ministries of culture and industry says thirty per cent of […]
Rovi and media research company Decipher have released the first results from a two-phase study about Smart TV usage and interactive advertising in the UK. The first phase examined connected device familiarity and usage, creating a profile of the connected TV audience and comparing it to the average UK household. “The study, combined with the […]
The number of TV sets connected to the Internet will reach 551 million by 2016 for the 40 countries covered in a report from Digital TV Research, up from 124 million at end-2010. The report states that this translates to 20 per cent of global TV sets by 2016, up from only 6 per cent […]
IP Vision, the UK’s hybrid DTT/IPTV over-the-top TV specialist, has unveiled the first two FetchTV apps for smart TVs. The FetchTV app for Panasonic Smart VIERA TVs went live this week; the app for Samsung’s Smart TV platform will launch during Q1 2012. Customised versions of the FetchTV content portal for other smart TV platforms […]
UK supermarket giant Tesco and its online video-on-demand subsidiary blinkbox have announced a new service where customers who purchase a DVD or Blu-ray will also own the movie online. The new service will be exclusive to customers enrolled in the store’s Clubcard loyalty scheme. Beginning on 2 December, with the launch of Harry Potter and […]
British homes could be transformed into hi-tech hubs with communication networks built into them, delivering everything from advanced entertainment services to health care by the end of the decade, a report by Intellect, the trade body for the technology industry, has predicted. The report, Connected Homes – a Reality, says that there could be a […]
Ensequence and Civolution have announced an automatic content recognition (ACR) product integration to enable the synchronisation of TV content with interactive content on connected devices including tablets and smartphones. The integrated solution consisting of Civolution’s watermarking technology and Ensequence’s iTV Manager platform identifies what viewers are watching on their televisions or PCs and enables programmers […]
US telco Verizon is to make a selection of live, FiOS TV channels available over the Xbox 360 Entertainment System. Through a collaboration between Verizon and Microsoft, customers who are Xbox LIVE Gold members and who subscribe to both FiOS TV and Internet service will be able to view select live channels through their Xbox […]
As revealed by advanced-television.com in March, Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo Group has confirmed that it is to launch a Smart TV product, dubbed ‘LeTV’ as well introducing a new cloud-computing strategy, as it seeks to diversify and meet the growing demand for Internet-connected devices. The company, which overtook Dell in Q3 to become the world’s […]
Leaders of the advertising, media and entertainment sector have converged in New York, London and Melbourne for the inauguration of the Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA), the global industry trade body of the advertising, media and entertainment sector. The CTVMA has been set up to inform and educate the advertising, media and entertainment sector on […]