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On-demand TV revenues set to climb

On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages) will reach $5.7 billion in 2016, up from $3.6 billion in 2010 and $2.1 billion in 2006, according to the On-demand TV Forecasts report published by Digital TV Research (DTVR). By […]

July 25, 2011

IPTV services moving beyond basic offerings

Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its 2011 IPTV Services Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey. “Despite representing only a small portion of the total pay-TV market, IPTV services have had a significant impact on the market, forcing change across the entire ecosystem of video delivery. Although most IPTV operators continue to […]

July 22, 2011

OTT video substitution for 4.5m US households in 2011

An estimated 4 per cent of occupied US households – 4.5 million homes –will have substituted Internet video options for cable, satellite or telco TV service by the end of 2011, according to research firm SNL Kagan. “Though the thin slice of households relying [on OTT] substitution could be dismissed as evidence of a lack […]

July 21, 2011

802.11n-enabled CE unit shipments up 465% by 2015

The year 2010 continued a shift toward consumer electronics (CE) devices with networking capabilities, allowing more devices to directly connect to the Internet or to a home network. In-Stat sees a continuation of the trend, forecasting growth in CE 802.11n-enabled devices. Annual unit shipments will increase from 53 million in 2010 to almost 300 million […]

July 21, 2011

Mexico DTH will pass cable

DTH subscriptions will continue to grow, achieving 71 percent of the pay-TV market by 2016, says a report from Dataxis. By the end of this year DTH will edge past cable subscriptions (51 per cent versus cable’s 49 per cent), following a growing trend towards DTH subscription. At present, in Mexico, DTH is operated by […]

July 21, 2011By Chris Forrester

10m hit the CNN app button

Just a few days after CNN made its decision to stream full live programming onto the web and onto mobile devices, its president, Jim Walton, says 10 million users have downloaded the broadcaster’s app. Walton told CNN staff in a memo: “As you know, this week CNN and HLN began streaming their full 24-hour television […]

July 21, 2011By Chris Forrester

Social participation TV to generate $2.9bn by 2016

Mobile and digital technology business Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) has published research on the trends and opportunities in participation TV (P-TV) services in particular social channels across global markets. The research uncovers key technological and behavioural insights in to the entire P-TV value chain, from the types of devices that consumers use to interact with […]

July 20, 2011

Smartphones make mobile video boom

Mobile video consumption is a rapidly developing market. Although many mobile video products have only recently launched, providers are experiencing significant growth in usage rates. According to In-Stat survey results, nearly two-thirds of smartphone owners have watched video on their device, while nearly 86 per cent of tablet owners have done so. While the propensity […]

July 19, 2011

Mobile connected devices bolster CE industry

CEA expects the surging sales of mobile connected devices to be significant enough to push the overall industry higher than previously projected: – Tablet computers are projected to grow 157 per cent in 2011, with more than 26.5 million units being shipped to dealers and resulting in $14 billion in shipment revenue. – Smartphone sales […]

July 19, 2011

Digital FTA overtakes pay TV audience share in Oz

Digital free-to-air (FTA) channels have overtaken pay TV in Australian metropolitan audience share, with the June figures showing FTA digital’s 20.25 per cent to pay’s 15.42 per cent. Digital FTA channels nudged past pay TV for the first time in January with a 20.04 per cent metro audience share, compared to pay TV’s 18.87 per […]

July 19, 2011