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Research: More legal content services best way to counter piracy

The digital media industry needs to offer more legal ways to access content, such as streaming and micropayment systems, to overcome piracy, suggests research by BDRC Continental. At the Media Research Group conference in Malta, director of media and Internet research James Myring presented the company’s first study of digital content piracy. “If piracy is […]

November 5, 2010

Research: Global broadband market rebounds

Recovering from a slight decline in the second quarter, global broadband subscriber growth is rebounding in the third and fourth quarters as China’s demand for high-speed Internet access soars, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp. Across the major segments of DSL, cable and fibre, the number of new broadband subscribers worldwide in the […]

November 4, 2010

Fibre homes up 22%

The number of fibre-to-the-home subscribers in Europe, including Russia, has increased by 22 per cent over the past six months, thanks to the booming broadband market in the Eastern part of Europe, according to the latest figures from the FTTH Council Europe, announced at the Broadband World Forum in Paris. In absolute numbers, Europe has […]

November 2, 2010

Research: Mobile TV tuner will exceed $400m by 2014

Free-to-Air analogue mobile video is booming in Latin America and China, and digital mobile TV services are ramping up throughout Asia, as well as Latin America. In the US, new ATSC mobile DTV services are launching and will drive solid growth in a few short years. As a result, within a few years, In-Stat expects […]

November 2, 2010

Research: Online video overtakes P2P traffic

Online video now accounts for the largest amount of IP traffic worldwide, according to figures from Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI). Online video – which represents streaming video, Flash and Internet TV – represents 26 per cent of all IP traffic, compared to 25 peer cent for P2P traffic (the former highest – down from […]

November 1, 2010

Research: Analogue extinct by 2013

The television sector in Western Europe is in transition at the moment, according to a report from Informa, as analogue terrestrial TV is expected to become extinct in the region in 2013 and IPTV will continue to gain subscribers over the next five years. Cable is still the biggest pay-TV platform in Western Europe, according […]

October 29, 2010

Research: Pay-TV ops must deliver OTT

Internet technologies have been a catalyst to turn TV into a mash-up of many kinds of content and then bring it to any screen, while TV viewing has become more fragmented according to a report from Pyramid Research. “While content owners can bypass pay-TV operators by going direct to consumers over the Internet, the operators’ […]

October 28, 2010

High consumer demand for 3D movies

The International 3D Society has published a survey revealing that 6 of 10 US adults (59 per cent) have yet to see a contemporary 3D movie (in the past three years) — an untapped and huge opportunity for consumer discovery. “Clearly consumers have a robust appetite for 3D Content” said Jim Chabin, President of the […]

October 27, 2010

Pay-TV in 50% of Asian homes

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has revealed that pay-TV in Asia has reached the tipping point of 50 per cent penetration of all Asian TV homes. This development opens the door to massive growth in ad revenues over the next five years. According to Asia Pacific pay-TV industry research carried out […]

October 26, 2010

$2bn lost to pay TV piracy this year

According to an annual piracy survey by CASBAA and Standard Chartered Bank – is that over $2 billion will have been lost to piracy this year. CASBAA noted that this loss, while high, does not include revenues lost to Internet piracy. Also research undertaken by PwC reveals that at least $262 million is lost annually […]

October 26, 2010