The majority of consumers of all ages in seven major markets around the world are choosing to watch video content over the Internet via their televisions, PCs, smartphones and other electronic devices, according to Accenture’s Video-Over-Internet Consumer Usage Survey. Among 6,500 consumers surveyed, 85 per cent of participants ages 18 to 24, 82 per cent […]
Results from the IMS Research study IPTV: A Global Market Analysis – 2011 Edition, indicate that the worldwide Hospitality market for IPTV set-top boxes will reach a revenue milestone of three quarters of a billion US dollars in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 16 per cent. The market is forecast to encounter double digit […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research conducted a survey of incumbent and competitive telecom operators in North America, EMEA, and CALA who use residential gateways and CPE to offer broadband and multi-play services. “There is consistency among our survey findings from last year and this year: Service providers want to deploy residential gateways that are powerful […]
France24.com hit a new record audience with 14 million visits, some 59 million pages viewed and around 5 million videos watched across its 3 language versions, confirming strong interest in international news coverage, in particular for the political crisis in Libya and Ivory Coast and the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan. Since the beginning of the […]
Anne Schelle, executive director of the Open Mobile Video Coalition, a coalition of America’s broadcasters, has offered a prediction of the prospects for mobile digital television. “Between those stations already on-air and those who are coming soon, we project that mobile DTV will reach more than 71 million households…in the next 12 months.” That ‘s […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released a fourth quarter market forecast report which tracks DSL, cable broadband, FTTH, and voice customer-premise equipment; residential gateways; and broadband subscribers. The broadband CPE market is much more dynamic now, with FTTH CPE coming on strong in many regions of the world, particularly Japan, China, and North America, […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released its quarterly Home Networking Devices market forecast report, which tracks, ranks, and analyses vendors that make residential gateways, broadband routers, HomePlug Powerline adapters, MoCA coax-Ethernet adapters, and home network attached storage (home NAS). “Sales of home networking devices grew 11 per cent in 2010, to $5.15 billion, on […]
Premium VOD services which offer restrictive rental windows are priced too high to support significant demand, according to a report from The Diffusion Group (TDG). The report names the new ‘Home Premiere’ VOD service as an example. The premium service, which joins pay-TV operators in the US and Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros, Universal […]
While only 1.4 per cent of US consumers have cut the cord in the last two years, 7 per cent of current pay-television subscribers are considering cancelling their service, according to a Consumer Reports survey. In addition, for the third year in a row, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse were the highest-rated providers of triple-play […]
Take-up of digital television in UK households is at 92.5 per cent, up by 1.1 percentage points year on year, according to Ofcom’s consumer survey results for the fourth quarter of 2010. Ofcom found that 75.8 per cent of all secondary TV sets had been converted to digital by the end of December 2010, up […]