Despite their ever-increasing momentum, over-the-top (OTT) TV services are not yet an adequate alternative to traditional pay-TV, according to analyst firm Ovum. However, operators should not rest easy, warns the company; besides enjoying significant brand equity, a handful of key OTT players, such as LOVEFiLM and YouTube, can also leverage the financial strength and assets […]
Findings from the annual update to the NPD DisplaySearch Global TV Replacement Study indicate that, over the past year, the TV replacement cycle decreased on a global scale, from 8.4 to 6.9 years. The study found a variety of reasons for this trend, including declining prices, a wider variety of sizes, and desire for the […]
Four million football fans are planning to pick up a new TV ahead of the European Championships. Research from shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk reveals three quarters of consumers will be following Euro 2012 at home and almost one in ten (nine per cent) will be purchasing a new TV to watch it on. These findings are […]
SES is well ahead with developing its five-pillar strategy for expansion, CEO Romain Bausch told investors and analysts at the operator’s Investors Day meeting in London last week. The ‘pillars’ themselves are straightforward enough but implementing them has created a huge amount of work and restructuring at the Luxembourg-based business. SES is now firmly focussed […]
Leading TV executives were left undecided as to which company has the most effective Connected TV strategy according to a study by MPP Global Solutions. Respondents were asked to select which companies they felt had the most effective strategy for success in the Connected TV market, but results proved to be inconclusive. The survey, conducted […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its new Residential Gateway Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. The report delves into service providers’ strategies for deploying and pricing residential gateways, the applications driving their deployments, and their top picks for residential gateway vendors, services, technologies, and features. “With residential gateway revenue dropping because […]
As the number of connected media devices grows, home networking will continue to gain importance in consumers’ expanding digital lifestyle. By 2014, shipments of core home networking equipment (home gateways/routers, adapters, bridges, NICs, embedded LAN, NAS) and networked-enabled media devices (CE devices with network connectivity, excluding computers and mobile devices) will exceed one billion units […]
Set-top box data research from Rovi into consumer engagement with Interactive Programming Guides (IPG) has revealed that 94 per cent of homes now visit the TV listings grid on a weekly basis. Rovi also found that on average, Guide users visit the TV listings grid 15 times daily and interact with it for a combined […]
Market researcher Mediametrie has reported there were nearly three million smart TVs in France in Q1, 2012 – meaning that 10.7 per cent of French homes had TVs that could access VoD or apps over the Internet. The number of homes with smart TVs rose by 40 per cent from the end of 2011. About […]
Seventy-five per cent of viewers still prefer to watch some TV live according to a survey by Digital Spy, the UK entertainment news site. The research also shows that despite being keen to watch shows live, nearly two-thirds (59 per cent) multi-task, viewing a second screen while they watch a TV, surfing the web, checking […]