An estimated 800,000 US households stopped their cable, satellite or telco TV subscription services last year, a number that could double to 1.6 million by the end of 2011, according to a study from Convergence Consulting Group. The report found that 17 per cent of the weekly TV audience watches at least one or two […]
At a time when HD Ready TVs are selling faster than ever in the run up to the World Cup, many UK households are still confused as to how actually to watch in HD. Ofcoms data shows that 70 per cent of digital TVs sold in the UK in the last quarter of 2009 were […]
With the first round of 3D-capable TVs now reaching retail floors and plans for the top TV manufacturers to bring more products to market soon, DisplaySearch has increased its 2010 forecast for 3D-capable TV shipments. According to the latest Quarterly TV Design and Features Report, the market is forecast to grow from 2.5 million 3D-capable […]
Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter editions of two video-related market share and forecast reports: Video Infrastructure and Subscribers and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers. “In the ongoing battle between cable and telco IPTV operators, both continue to spend furiously to add video-on-demand and streaming content server capacity to support the rollout of on-demand HD […]
China’s online video users reached 240 million at the end of 2009, according to an annual government survey by the state-controlled China Internet Network Information Centre. It also revealed that 56.7 per cent of Chinese Web surfers are now more dependent on the Internet than on television. Television watching in China has dropped among 66.8 […]
Germans are watching more TV series on illegal online portals, according to a study by German copyright production association GVU. The study, which looked at pirated titles available on German-language sites, found while piracy was up across the board, the number of TV series available on online streaming portals grew hugely in 2009. GVU counted […]
Orange has published its sixth Digital Media Index (ODMI) report offering insight into how digital media is consumed across its mobile network. The latest findings reveal that whilst the consumption of mobile data continues to increase, there are interesting differences between men and women on what they use their handsets for. Men use their mobile […]
International research firm Parks Associates has found that consumer interest in Web-on-TV applications is so strong that households are making their own connections via PCs and game consoles. From 2008 to 2009, the number of US households using Web-connected game consoles increased by 64 per cent, and the number connecting a PC to a TV […]
According to research from TDG less than half of broadband users view their favourite TV programmes when initially broadcast. “With the advent of the DVR, the primacy of programming schedules was forever diminished,” notes Michael Greeson, founding partner and director of research at TDG. “The DVR, however, simply signalled the first stages of a prolonged […]
According to a study conducted by Yahoo, 84 per cent of consumers simultaneously interact with two screens at once while a quarter of mobile users interact with mobile, TV and PCs at the same time. Yahoo claims its “APPetite” study highlights the need for the mobile Internet experience to reflect that of a PC, in […]