AT&T in the fourth quarter of 2011 added more video subscribers to its U-verse service than Verizon did for its FiOS offering, marking the 10th straight quarter that AT&T has exceeded Verizon, according to IHS Screen Digest. AT&T added 208,000 U-verse accounts during the final quarter of 2011, resulting in overall new subscribers of 804,000 […]
Driven by strong increases in emerging markets, global consumer spending on movies is expected to rise for six consecutive years, expanding from $61.4 billion in 2010 to $68.9 billion in 2015, according to the IHS Screen Digest. As a group, consumers in the five key global economic regions are steadily increasing their movie spending, an […]
Despite a record 47 films released in 3D last year, including the final Harry Potter and the latest in the Transformers franchise, UK box-office receipts for the format fell £7 million (€8.3m) to £230 million, reducing its share of total ticket sales from 24 per cent to 20 per cent. The average takings per 3D […]
Shipments of 3D LCD TV panels spiked to 7.8 million in Q4’11, up 26 per cent Q/Q. As a result, total 3D TV panel shipments in 2011 reached 21.2 million, accounting for 10 per cent of all LCD TV panels shipped. According to the NPD DisplaySearch, panel makers are targeting very strong growth of 138 […]
According to a new report released by TDG, Making Ad-Supported VoD Work, video-on-demand services provided by PayTV operators should be generating significantly higher viewing and advertising revenue. The failure to accomplish this is a reflection of VoD’s inadequate advertising support and awkward programme guides that limit availability and viewing of ad-supported video-on-demand content. According to […]
Indonesia’s pay-TV market is taking off, speakers told a capacity crowd of delegates at CASBAA’s Indonesia in View: Growing Pay TV forum, held in Jakarta on February 29th. With more than 2 million paying subscribers at the beginning of 2012, a host of new distribution platforms coming online, and strong economic fundamentals, Indonesia is looking […]
As TV networks struggle to find the right balance between digital and traditional access to their content, research from Knowledge Networks, a GfK company, shows that online access wins favour with consumers in ways often overlooked by standard metrics. The study – TV’s Web Connections 2012 – is conducted annually to track the interplay between […]
The relentless march toward digital media technology has driven the evolution of consumer electronics from specialised electronic devices to multipurpose, networked computing devices, with the advent of ‘smart CE devices’ having a profound effect on the digital multimedia home, according to research firm NPD In-Stat, who forecast that smart CE device unit shipments will surpass […]
Coinciding with the Dubai CABSAT show, sales analysis specialist GfK reports that Saudi Arabia’s technical consumer goods have again demonstrated extremely strong growth throughout last year. Camera sales did best of all (up 60 per cent y-o-y) although telecommunications (smart phones) and IT sectors represent greater value in revenue terms. The top three contributors in […]
Residential gateways are expected to become the new hub of the so-called digital living room when they take over from set-top boxes, with the vigorous gateway market projected to triple from 2012 to 2015, according to a report from information and analytics provider IHS. Shipments of residential gateways and thin client boxes that act as […]