Hungary’s 14 biggest cable, satellite and IPTV companies had 2,489,000 subscribers at the end of December, 17,000 more than a month earlier, the National Telecommunications Office (NHH) has revealed. Magyar Telekom, Invitel, UPC, FiberNet, DIGI, PR TELEKOM, Zelka, TARR, TvNetWork, ViDaNet, PARISAT, RubiCom, Antenna Hungaria and HD Platform control 80-85 per cent of the pay […]
Online movie sales growth has slowed sharply in 2009. Screen Digest had forecast $360 milliom worth building on $219 million in 2008, but sales fell short at $291 million. The researcher doesn't believe it was recession but that demand just dropped off, not least because of the myriad of services with downloads that won't work […]
Global 3D television shipments will soar to 78 million units by 2015, rising at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 80 per cent from 4.2 million in 2010, iSuppli Corp. predicts. Revenue from shipments of these sets will boom to $64.3 million in 2015, up by nearly a factor of nine from $7.4 million […]
The FTTH Council Europe has unveiled the latest figures showing which European countries are leading the way in the penetration of fibre-to-the-home at year-end 2009. Although Sweden, Norway and Slovenia have maintained their places in the top five, they have been overtaken by Lithuania, which made a dynamic jump to the number one position with […]
Data from Horowitz Associates’ annual US Broadband Content and Services (BCS) survey of 800 Internet users reveal that 44 per cent watch actual, not user generated, TV content at least once monthly, including viewing online and on handheld devices. Portending future growth of viewing on alternative platforms, incidence of TV consumption on the computer/ handheld […]
More than one quarter of all TVs purchased by US consumers in January were linked to the Internet, according to a survey conducted by iSuppli. Among US consumers that purchased new televisions in January, 27.5 per cent indicated their sets were connected to the Internet, either though the internal capabilities of their TVs, or via […]
Three out of four (73 per cent) of UK consumers don't know what they are allowed to copy or record, according to research from Consumer Focus, who is calling on the Government to reform the UK's outdated copyright law before the laws lose all credibility. Most copyright law was written at a time when digital […]
Thousands of TV programmes, catch-up TV VOD archives, Internet-TV services, video-sharing platforms and personal content currently compete for audiences. With such a huge range of content, the EPG is being promoted to the increasingly important role of an entertainment guide for content-overloaded digital living rooms. That's according to the report 'EPGs and TV Middleware Applications: […]
Nearly 37 per cent of broadband households in North America are extremely or very interested in viewing Over-the-Top video content on the home TV, according to market research firm, In-Stat. The demand is growing as companies such as Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, and Apple, offer streamed or downloadable TV and movie content. Similarly, a growing set […]
A GIA report on Mobile Satellite Television projects that the market will reach $11 billion by 2015, driven by the growing consumer demand for video content on an anytime, anywhere basis. The increasing penetration of mobile phone devices, improving content quality, and advent of interoperable standards and technologies are expected to boost prospects in the […]