Euroconsult, the research and analyst firm specialised in the satellite communications sector, has published the findings of its most recent study of fixed satellite services. “2010 was a particularly important year for FSS operators with a number of important strategic investments, including in Ka-band,” said Richard Roithner, Senior Consultant at Euroconsult. Among the FSS operators […]
Spain’s pay-TV market has surpassed the 5 million-subscription mark mainly as a result of the significant growth of mobile TV. As of the end of March, the number of mobile TV subscribers grew by 28 per cent to 638,340 an amount that is added to 4,394,441 clients to the traditional pay-TV platforms, reaching a total […]
Consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 8 per cent of US households get a broadband Internet service, but do not subscribe to a multi-channel video service, while 70 per cent of households get both broadband and multi-channel video services. Among this group getting broadband but not multi-channel video, the reason for not […]
Euroconsult, the research and analyst firm specialised in the satellite communications sector, has published the findings of its most recent study of fixed satellite services. The report provides in-depth profiles of all 37 currently-active FSS satellite operators, plus nine companies that will launch commercial satellites in the near future. “2010 was a particularly important year […]
Television technology, including digital and HD formats, time-shifted and catch-up viewing, has helped drive a global increase in television viewing, a new report has revealed. The report – Television – International Key Facts 2011 – published by IP Network, the wholly owned international advertising subsidiary of RTL Group, analyses audiences, programmes and leading trends in […]
Research firm Analysys Mason has completed its pay-TV forecasts for Europe, in which it predicts that the number of pay-TV households will increase by 12 per cent to 185.2 million between 2011 and 2016. Since 2009, connected TVs have become increasingly available and affordable as all the major consumer electronics manufacturers move to capitalise on […]
On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages) will reach $5.7 billion in 2016, up from $3.6 billion in 2010 and $2.1 billion in 2006, according to the On-demand TV Forecasts report published by Digital TV Research (DTVR). By […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2011 IPTV Services Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. “Despite representing only a small portion of the total pay-TV market, IPTV services have had a significant impact on the market, forcing change across the entire ecosystem of video delivery. Although most IPTV operators continue to […]
An estimated 4 per cent of occupied US households – 4.5 million homes –will have substituted Internet video options for cable, satellite or telco TV service by the end of 2011, according to research firm SNL Kagan. “Though the thin slice of households relying [on OTT] substitution could be dismissed as evidence of a lack […]
The year 2010 continued a shift toward consumer electronics (CE) devices with networking capabilities, allowing more devices to directly connect to the Internet or to a home network. In-Stat sees a continuation of the trend, forecasting growth in CE 802.11n-enabled devices. Annual unit shipments will increase from 53 million in 2010 to almost 300 million […]