According to Nielsen’s new US Consumer Usage Report 2012, nearly 120 million people within television homes own four or more TV sets – 75 per cent of which are HD capable and just 4 per cent of which are Internet-connected. Nearly 50 per cent of those homes own a DVR, whilst 33 per cent has […]
About 35.3 per cent of TV homes (14.0 million) in Sub-Saharan Africa took digital signals by end-2012, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Sub-Saharan Africa report forecasts that digital TV penetration will rocket to 95.5 per cent by 2018 – with household numbers quadrupling to 49.0 million. Full digital transition […]
Consumer spending on home entertainment in 2012 in the US rose for the first time in five years, albeit marginally, coming in at just over $18 billion according the Year-End 2012 Home Entertainment Report compiled by members of trade body DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, tracking sources and retail input. According to the DEG, resilience, […]
Ultra HDTV displays will be bought by around 10 million homes worldwide by 2016, representing a much faster and wider acceptance of the technology, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. By 2020 more than 130 million households worldwide will have bought into Ultra-HD, says the study. Annual sales will exceed 1 million units during […]
According to TV market forecast published in the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Advanced Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report, 4K LCD TV shipments are projected to exceed OLED TV shipments through 2015. This is a result both of the delay in commercialisation by OLED TV makers, as well as increased promotion of 4K LCD TVs by […]
IPTV in Canada is rapidly gaining momentum at the expense of incumbent cable and satellite services, with IPTV’s share of pay-TV subscriptions in the country rising to nearly to 10 per cent in the third quarter of 2012. IPTV accounted for 9.6 per cent of Canadian pay-TV video subscriptions in the third quarter, according to […]
Consumers are using the built-in features on their HDTV at a high rate, with an increasing number gaining access to Web-enabled content directly through their televisions, according to research by The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). More than one in five US adults owns a smart app-enabled HDTV and almost all (90 per cent) use the […]
There are now more than one hundred million smart TVs installed in homes worldwide, according to research from Strategy Analytics. By the end of 2012, the global installed base of smart TVs had reached 104 million. In leading markets like the US household penetration now exceeds 20 per cent. The report predicts that annual smart […]
Topping a poll of ‘good’ brands for 2012 was the BBC iPlayer with a score of 30, followed by department store John Lewis at 24.6 and Amazon in third with 24.1. BrandIndex pollsters questioned a different set of 2,000 people every day, asking whether they had heard anything positive or negative through advertising, the media […]
The Internet connected HDTV screen has so far failed to break beyond the bounds of its TV-centric heritage, with little use for the big screen beyond the obligatory video services, reports research firm the NPD Group. Nevertheless, writing in the NPD Group Blog, John Buffone, Director, Devices, NPD Connected Intelligence, suggests the connection is being […]