America continues to favour cable or satellite TV, and research agency Nielsen says viewers are increasingly abandoning free-to-air (FTA) signals. FTA viewing is now only viewed by nine per cent of the population, down from 16 per cent in 2003. However this number is disputed by the influential National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) which states […]
About 35.3 per cent of TV homes (14.0 million) in Sub-Saharan Africa took digital signals by end-2012, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa report forecasts that digital TV penetration will rocket to 95.5 per cent by 2018 – with household numbers quadrupling to 49.0 million. Full digital transition […]
Consumer spending on home entertainment in 2012 in the US rose for the first time in five years, albeit marginally, coming in at just over $18 billion according the Year-End 2012 Home Entertainment Report compiled by members of trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, tracking sources and retail input. According to the DEG, resilience, […]
Ultra HDTV displays will be bought by around 10 million homes worldwide by 2016, representing a much faster and wider acceptance of the technology, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. By 2020 more than 130 million households worldwide will have bought into Ultra-HD, says the study. Annual sales will exceed 1 million units during […]
According to TV market forecast published in the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Advanced Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, 4K LCD TV shipments are projected to exceed OLED TV shipments through 2015. This is a result both of the delay in commercialisation by OLED TV makers, as well as increased promotion of 4K LCD TVs by […]
IPTV in Canada is rapidly gaining momentum at the expense of incumbent cable and satellite services, with IPTV’s share of pay-TV subscriptions in the country rising to nearly to 10 per cent in the third quarter of 2012. IPTV accounted for 9.6 per cent of Canadian pay-TV video subscriptions in the third quarter, according to […]
There are now more than one hundred million smart TVs installed in homes worldwide, according to research from Strategy Analytics. By the end of 2012, the global installed base of smart TVs had reached 104 million. In leading markets like the US household penetration now exceeds 20 per cent. The report predicts that annual smart […]
The Internet connected HDTV screen has so far failed to break beyond the bounds of its TV-centric heritage, with little use for the big screen beyond the obligatory video services, reports research firm the NPD Group. Nevertheless, writing in the NPD Group Blog, John Buffone, Director, Devices, NPD Connected Intelligence, suggests the connection is being […]
The global 3D consumer market is thriving in a dynamic environment marked by clear and discernible growth across its major platforms, including cinema, home video and pay-TV video on demand, with international markets continuing to make major contributions to the industry, according to an IHS Screen Digest Cross Platform Intelligence report from information and analytics […]
A jump in video equipment spending is forecast as operators respond to the need to deliver content to a range of devices, according to market research firm Infonetics Research, who also rank Cisco as number 1in the STB market. Commenting on the firm’s new video report, Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscribers, Jeff […]