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 […]
Watch for more Canadians to dump their traditional phone and TV subscriptions, says a new report from Toronto’s Convergence Consulting. Canadian telco residential wireline telephone line loss was 7 per cent in 2010 (as it was in 2009) and the research company forecasts 8 per cent for 2011 and 9 per cent for 2012 and […]
Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]
Market researcher Infonetics Research has released its fourth quarter 2010 ‘Cable, Satellite, IPTV, and OTT STBss and Subscribers’ market share and forecast report. “In the fourth quarter of 2010, we witnessed the dramatic growth of over-the-top services, as service providers and equipment vendors hit the ‘sweet spot’ for pricing. However, these services continue to complement […]
The final match for the World Cup cricket tournament in Mumbai between India and Sri Lanka was seen by a record 67.6 million TV viewers in India according to ratings agency aMap. The finals were telecast on ESPN Star Sports network’s Star Cricket and Star Sports channels alongwith terrestrial statecaster Doordarshan though the aMap ratings […]
As at the end of 2010, 42 per cent of Western European homes subscribed to a multichannel pay-TV service, according to the e-Media Institute, with the subs base up 11 per cent to 73 million since 2008. In the same period, the analogue TV penetration fell from 40 per cent to 18 per cent; 31 […]
The new Nielsen State of the Media Mobile Usage Trends survey revealed a big uplift in US mobile video in the second half of 2010. US mobile subscribers watching video on their rose 40 per cent year-on-year. In Q4 2010 25 million people watched an average of four hours and 20 minutes of mobile video […]
Most Americans, Brits and Canadians are unlikely to purchase a 3D television any time soon, according to a recent Vision Critical poll. The online survey of representative national samples shows that a negligible number of respondents in each country currently own 3D TVs. Five per cent of Americans, two per cent of Brits and only […]