Ofcom’s third International Communications Market Report into the £876 billion (E1,100bn) global digital communications market finds that UK consumers are getting a good deal for their money when buying communications services compared with people in other countries. Of the larger countries surveyed, the UK has more households with digital TV on their main set, at […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group has found that 34 per cent of households in the US have at least one high definition television (HDTV) set – approximately double the percentage of households that had an HDTV set two years ago. The growth of HDTV sets was largely driven by on-going consumer purchasing of TV […]
Multimedia Research Group's latest IPTV Global Forecast shows that global IPTV subscribers will grow from 20.4 million IPTV subscribers in 2008 to 89.6 million in 2012. To drive this growth, IPTV Operators worldwide are expected to continue investing in improved Quality-of-Service, ease-of-operation, HD content, exclusive programming and time-shifting as differentiating features. In Europe, for example, […]
Despite the popularity of online video, new research shows that European content owners are struggling to turn a profit as delivery costs in many cases exceed advertising revenues. By comparison, businesses in the US have been more successful at making money from online content, having negotiated better technology distribution deals and established more effective advertising […]
According to a survey of nearly 2000 UK digital TV viewers, commissioned by Microsoft-s Connected TV Business, over a quarter of digital viewers (27 per cent) still rely on flicking through all the channels to choose what to watch, wasting more than one week per year channel surfing. On average, digital viewers in the UK […]
IPTV’s share of the overall pay TV subscriber base will grow from 3 per cent in 2008 to 14 per cent in 2013 at the expense of cable TV’s share, which will decline from 76 per cent to 61 per cent over the same period, according to a Media Forecast service by Pyramid Research. “IPTV […]
The market for mobile video infrastructure will experience rapid growth rates over the next several years in spite of the economy, reports In-Stat. There are many ways to deliver video content to mobile devices; some of these require mobile video-specific infrastructure, such as broadcast out-of-band video services and cellular in-band video services, the high-tech market […]
The North American IPTV and switched digital video (SDV) equipment market declined sharply in the second quarter of 2008, pulling the worldwide market down 5 per cent sequentially to $1.27 billion despite healthy increases in EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA, reports market research firm Infonetics Research. The dip in the overall market is due to […]
US cable TV could see a mass migration away from its services, according to a report by Parks Associates., if providers do not improve their consistently low satisfaction ratings among subscribers. The report reveals that subscribers to satellite television and telco/IPTV are significantly more likely to be satisfied with their services than both basic and […]
Sandvine, provider of intelligent broadband network solutions, has released a global Internet traffic trends report based on millions of subscribers from around the world. Report findings include real proof of the inevitable shift in consumer behaviour as online entertainment-based applications such as gaming, video streaming, social networking and VoIP communications dominate peak evening hours between […]