A Multimedia Research Group report shows the worldwide pay-TV subscriber market has reached a new high water mark. Following a year of solid 8 per cent growth, there are now 804 million worldwide pay-TV subscriber households. The global pay-TV subscriber base, which is made up of cable TV, satellite TV, and telco-based IPTV subscribers, is […]
The success of content ownership ecosystem UltraViolet will depend on the actions of those major studio, CE and online players who are currently holding out against UltraViolet, according to ABI Research. By 2018, the firm expects active UltraViolet (UV) accounts (those with multiple movies) to exceed 65 million worldwide – up from the estimated 6 […]
Research carried out by Dataxis has confirmed that 100 per cent of the top 25 free-to-air (FTA) television networks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru are now broadcasting a digital terrestrial TV (DTT) version of their analogue networks. Pushed by telecoms regulators that are looking to free up radio-frequency space for new wireless […]
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2012-2017) projects that global Internet protocol (IP) traffic will grow three-fold between 2012 and 2017. Global IP traffic (fixed and mobile) is expected to reach an annual run rate of 1.4 zettabytes ― more than a trillion gigabytes per year – by 2017. Internet video users are projected […]
The opportunity for OTT video to prosper in emerging markets is strong. In order to take advantage of this, telcos need to take into consideration five factors, according to a new from Pyramid Research. The report – that examines the growth of OTT video in markets across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Middle […]
SES has further increased its household reach in the Benelux countries in 2012 to over 1.2 million homes. With a 19 per cent increase compared to the previous year, Belgium topped the Benelux growth in Astra satellite homes. In Luxemburg, the number of household receiving programmes directly from the SES fleet increased by 16 per […]
TV panel makers are betting on a high rate of growth for Ultra-High Definition (UHD) LCD TVs during the next four years. These companies expect to ship nearly 943,000 UHD LCD panels this year, up from less than 33,000 units in 2012, according to IHS. The next two years will see shipments ramp up even […]
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the “Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report” from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and analytics provider IHS. Global shipments of flat-panel televisions […]
Independent research has shown Al Jazeera Arabic is firmly the most watched pan-Arab news channel. According to audience data produced for Q1 2013 by Ipsos and Sigma, the channel exceeds the combined total viewership of all other pan-Arab channels. Al Jazeera’s daily viewership across the MENA region was 34 per cent higher than all the […]
Despite a huge desire to receive content and services through television, Smart TVs trail laptops, desktops and set-top boxes when it comes to consumers deciding how to connect to the internet through their sets, new research from YouGov shows. Results from the latest Connected TV Tracker show that half (50 per cent) of consumers like […]