According to Digital TV Research Ltd (DTVR), pay-TV revenues will climb to $173 billion in 2016, up by $49 billion on 2006 but only up by $18 billion (12 per cent) on 2010. The Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report – covering 73 countries – suggests that on-demand revenues will increase much faster than subscription […]
By 2015, nomadic (fixed locations outside the home, such as coffee shops) broadband video users will reach 154 million nearing in-home users according to a new report, Broadband Video: On Demand, On the Go, and On the Rise. The report, from market research company The NPD Group analyses the confluence of connected devices, access, and […]
Indian telco and DTH giant Bharti Airtel is reportedly looking to trim more than 2000 jobs. Currently Bharti’s three core businesses (fixed line, mobile and DTH TV) are run as separate divisions even though the retail operations share the same customer-facing stores. The plan is now to merge the three divisions, which collectively generate some […]
New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that 87 per cent of households nationwide subscribe to some form of multi-channel video service. The percentage of households that subscribe to a multi-channel video service is similar to last year, and up from 80 per cent in 2004. Non-subscribers to multi-channel services tend to have […]
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 […]