According to RNCOS research, the US mobile TV/video market is anticipated to double by 2013, representing a CAGR of around 22 per cent from 2009, mainly resulting from operators pouring investment into mobile TV, declining service prices, and availability of desirable content. Consumers demanding improved multimedia services other than emails or mobile gaming are also […]
Apple says this week it will surpass one million sales of Apple TV and added that iTunes users are now renting and buying more than 400,000 TV shows and more than 150,000 movies per day. In September, Apple introduced a less expensive, smaller version of Apple TV for $99. It says: “Now with AirPlay, recently […]
The DTT set top box market continues to expand, as countries migrate from standard definition TV to high definition programmes, and digital video recorders become more important. New products like hybrid web-to-TV set top boxes also will contribute to the long-term growth of DTT STBs pushing revenues to nearly $6 billion by 2014, says In-Stat. […]
Digital advertising in the US will exceed ads in newspapers for the first time in 2010, according to researcher eMarketer. Online advertising spending will finish the year with a 13.9 per cent increase to $25.8 billion compared with an 8.2 per cent decline to $22.8 billion for print newspaper ads. “This is a tipping point,” […]
Romania now has more than 80 per cent of its homes subscribing to pay-TV, representing some 5.8 millon subs. Yet there’s still massive competition in the marketplace helped by a national decision to postpone analogue switch-off to 2015, which has also delayed the adoption of DTT in the country and as a consequence helped boost […]
At the end of 2010, Italy has over 40 million active digital TV boxes and a total of 30 TV channels available in HD, according to data published by HD Forum Italia (HDFI). In the DTH segment, some 2.4 million Sky Italia subscribers, or 50 per cent of the subscriber base (totalling 4.8 million), are […]
US consumer electronics giant Best Buy’s disappointing third quarter financial numbers have seen the company put much of the blame on poor sales of 3D and Internet-enabled televisions. The CE retailer has reported quarterly revenue dropped five per cent, compared to last year’s third quarter. TV makers and retail partners had been expecting a slight […]
Wired-cable penetration of American TV households hit a 21-year low as more consumers opted to receive video programming via an alternate delivery system (ADS) than ever before, according to a TVB analysis of Nielsen Media Research data for November 2010. According to Nielsen NTI data, national ADS penetration reached 30.5 per cent of television households […]
Canadian television service providers continue to add subscribers despite the growing presence of online content according to research and consulting firm Boon Dog. The firm said the traditional TV market added about 29,000 new households in the second quarter of 2010, for a total of about 11.3 million subscriptions. “While there has been much speculation […]
Findings from market research firm Infonetics Research’s latest report on North America Residential Voice, Data, and Video Service market share and forecast has highlighted the increasing importance of video services. “Considering that revenue from video services will rival that of voice services by 2014, one of the more interesting trends going on in the residential […]