The UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has expressed irritation at the slow implementation of anti-piracy law the Digital Economy Act, claiming that the delay is costing retailers millions of pounds. It claims that though the Act passed in June 2010 yet the value of lost sales to illegal filesharing since this time has exceeding £250 […]
Following the sales boom of TV sets last year in Spain as a result of the analogue switch-off in April 2010 and the World Cup, the electronic industry is now reporting a huge decline in the sales of new TV devices of around 30 per cent in the first half of the year. Until June, […]
Only about 3.5 million Mexican households, or 13.2 per cent of the total, have a digital television, complicating the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, the Federal Telecommunications Commission of Mexico (Cofetel) has said. The shift from analogue to digital television started in 2004 and was supposed to be completed in 2015 but has now […]
IDATE’s 21st edition of its biannual “World TV Markets” says the worldwide market represents €301 billion in 2010, a progression of 7.8 per cent compared to 2009. “Despite advertising spending’s sensitivity to economic activity, the effects of the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis had less of an effect on the TV market than it did […]
Despite a decline in video subscribers, the second quarter proved to be a strong period for the US pay-TV business, with revenue-generating units (RGU) for cable rising due to the expanding broadband and telephony segments, according to IHS Screen Digest. The researcher, which reported yesterday European cable’s resilience to cord cutting, said the number of […]
Android smartphone users will download more apps than Apple iPhone owners this year, as sales of devices using the Google operating system surge ahead, according to a report from telecoms analyst Ovum Applications, which range from games to alarm clocks and weather information, will jump from a total 7.4 billion downloaded in 2010 to 18 […]
Despite the rising US trend of cord cutting, the European cable market continued to expand in 2010, with revenue throughout the EU rising by nearly 8 per cent for the year on the strength of double-digit growth in digital television, broadband and telephony subscribers, according to the IHS Screen Digest. Total European Union cable revenue […]
Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its second quarter 2011 (2Q11) Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT STBs and Subscribers market share and forecast report. “The overall set-top box market held steady in the second quarter of 2011, with pockets of growth evident in all regions, particularly Central and Latin America. Pure IP STBs remain a […]
The number of pay-TV households in the US declined by nearly 380,000 in the second quarter as traditional cable and satellite video providers continued to lose subscribers because of economic factors and lower-priced Internet video solutions, according to IHS Screen Digest. Total US TV subscriptions in the second quarter decreased to 100.9 million, down from […]
The first six months of this year were not good for sales of consumer electronics devices, according to the latest report from researchers GfK. It says the sector suffered a “significant deterioration” with sales in Western Europe declining by 11.3 percent compared with the same period in 2010. The numbers come out ahead of the […]