SNL Kagan has found that China’s pay-TV market, which has long been the world’s largest in terms of subscribers, with 2011 revenues of $7.5 billion is set to surpass Japan for the first time in value, ranking China as the top pay-TV market in Asia and the 5th largest in the world. China’s video service […]
The number of digital TV households worldwide will double between 2010 and 2016 to reach 1.189 billion, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The report estimates that penetration of digital TV services will climb from 42.5 per cent at the end of 2010 to 80 per cent by 2016, at which point 33 […]
UK analysts at YouGov have published a consumer survey on the UK’s TV viewing habits and attitudes. Although ownership of Internet connected TVs is currently low, there is clearly a demand for them – almost three quarters (69 per cent) of respondents had watched catch up TV citing convenience as the main driver for doing […]
With an increase of over 15.2 million subscribers in the first three months of this year, fixed broadband grew by 2.9 per cent. This was the biggest quarterly increase in the last two years and representing an annual growth rate of 11.93 per cent, according to figures released by the Broadband Forum at CommunicAsia 2011. […]
Panasonic expects to see a 59 per cent drop in profits this year as a direct result of the March earthquake and tsunami. Net income, says Panasonic’s guidance, will probably drop to Yen 30 billion ($374m) in the upcoming year to March 2012. There has been a small upside to the catastrophe in that Japan’s […]
It is not an April Fool story, but a true report from DirecTV in the USA. The DTH operator is offering hotels which take its new ‘Residential Experience’ service a supply of the industry’s first ‘anti-microbial’ zapper. As well as the germ-free units, hotels buying into the DirecTV offer will get 100 HDTV channels, a […]
New research says that fewer than half of the 11 million 3DTV-ready homes in the UK in 2016 will be active and regular users of 3DTV content. In 2010, almost 90 per cent of homes with 3D-ready sets were ‘active’ users, according to the research. This much higher proportion results from early-adopters being significantly more likely […]
The number of digital TV homes will double between 2010 and 2016 to 1.189 billion, according to analyst firm Digital TV Research (DTVR). The Digital TV World Household Forecasts report estimates that digital penetration will climb from 42.5 per cent at end-2010 to 80.0 per cent by 2016. By 2016, 33 countries will be completely […]
Up to 60 per cent of mobile data traffic is generated by watching video, with Apple’s iPhone driving the demand, according to Bytemobile, traffic management. Itsaid the overall data demand was also likely to intensify as 90 per cent of the total data traffic was currently generated by just 10 percent of mobile data users. […]
The new May online video rankings from comScore show that 176 million US Internet users, or about 83.3 per cent of the US audience, viewed online videos last month, spending an average of 15.9 hours per viewer over the month. More than 5.6 billion viewing sessions were recorded that month by comScore. Most of the […]