Amid a drop in television demand, the global market for digital television (DTV) semiconductors declined by nearly 6 per cent last year, according to a report from information and analytics provider IHS. Total DTV semiconductor revenue fell to $14.09 billion last year, down from $14.91 billion in 2011, as presented in the attached figure. While […]
UK 18-24 year olds are moving their TV watching online fast according to YouGov the pollsters. Their survey notes 67 per cent of 18-24 year-olds watch all forms of linear or on-demand TV via a TV set on a daily basis, compared with 79 per cent of 25-34 year-olds, 83 per cent of 35-44 year-olds […]
For the third year in a row, Nielsen reports big increases in the amount of time spent streaming video via game consoles, with users now spending 22 per cent of their time streaming movies and TV programmes, up from 19 per cent in 2011 and 13 per cent in 2010. The study also found that […]
Indian government officials say they have no intention of limiting the growth of broadcasting in its vibrant media scene. India’s Broadcasting & Information Ministry (I&B) says the country now has 833 private TV channels, up some 300 since 2010, and additional to the public broadcasting channels. I&B Minister Manish Tewari informed parliament that the country’s […]
A nearly 40 per cent plunge in pricing during the last three years has made LCD TVs featuring light-emitting diode (LED) backlight technology more cost competitive with televisions using older lighting technology—and has allowed them to become markedly less expensive than plasma televisions. The average retail price for LED TVs sold in the US dropped […]
Italy’s pay-TV channels lost the largest number of subscribers in Europe in 2012, with one million Italians giving up on their subscriptions. An annual report of the European audiovisual sector of the Council of Europe for 39 countries shows that pay-TV subscriptions also dropped for the first time in Europe as a whole – by […]
Consumer insight firm Nielsen has identified a group that despite not viewing TV content via traditional methods are nevertheless consuming measurable amounts. Nielsen notes that most people watch TV in their living rooms using traditional cable or satellite options, reporting that more than 95 per cent of Americans get their information and entertainment that way. […]
Global shipments of multimedia home gateways (MHGs) are expected to rise by a factor of more than 100 from 2011 to 2015 as pay-TV operators seek to unify the delivery of different forms of video content to all types of devices in homes, including media tablets and smartphones. Global MHG shipments are set to climb […]
Virgin Media provides the fastest broadband service in Britain according to figures from Netflix – which also ranks the UK third from bottom in its league table of broadband speeds. The Netflix ISP speed index lists highest, lowest and average Internet speeds for the US, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, Norway and Sweden. The UK […]
Twenty-two of the European Union’s 27 members have now completed digital switchover, as have the non-EU European states Croatia, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, according to European Audiovisual Observatory. The Observatory says pay DTT services are now available in 17 EU countries and 21 European countries. Eighty-six new DTT channels were launched last year, and HD […]