According to The Nielsen Company, more than 9 million households are not ready for the upcoming transition to all-digital broadcasting and would be unable to receive any television programming at all if the transition occurred today. Another 12.6 million households have at least one television set that will no longer work when the digital transition […]

The entry of a broad range of new mobile devices able to display video will have a profound effect on the mobile video market, reports In-Stat. The reach of new device choices will provide more markets for mobile operators, mobile broadcasters, advertisers and other content owners, the high-tech market research firm says. "Even though cellphones […]

AmberFin announced the results of a research survey conducted at this year’s IBC conference in Amsterdam. AmberFin spoke to industry experts attending to gauge their opinion on what issues would most influence the industry in the coming year. The results clearly demonstrate the use of multiple platforms such as broadband, IPTV and mobile handsets as […]

Fixed operators need to come up with strategies for dealing with a rapid and invasive expansion of mobile broadband into their core growth area, according to a new report, by Analysys Mason. The report forecasts that by 2013, 47% of European broadband subscriptions will use mobile networks and nearly a quarter of broadband-equipped sites will […]

A new report from StrategyEye, ‘Mobile TV – Separating Hype from Reality’, concludes that receiving television on our mobile phones will not be an everyday reality for at least another five years. "Despite the hype, mobile TV will remain a digital media pipedream for at least five years," concludes Thomas Warren, StrategyEye Digital Media Analyst […]

Reasearcher IMS claims to have roadmapped the way to converged services for IPTV operators. By categorising multi-platform services into functional groups including Time-shifting, Place-shifting, Personalisation, and Socialisation, the report provides numerous examples of what new services may look like on different platforms and regions of the world. “The Millennial generation already expects video, personal communications […]

Volume sales of Set Top Boxes grew to 4.9 million in the year ending April 2008 in the UK, increasing from 4.1 million the previous year. Value sales also grew significantly from £169.1 million (E225m) to £172.9 million over the same period according to GfK Retail and Technology. The largest sub-sector within this product area, […]

Despite the growing popularity of viewing television content online, most adults (94 per cent) who subscribe to cable or satellite television services prefer to watch television on traditional TV sets, according to research conducted by The Nielsen Company for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM). One-third of the adult broadband users (35 per […]

A recent survey of US mobile phone users by Artificial Life has revealed that 46 per cent use their devices for entertainment purposes, illustrating evolution of the mobile phone as a prominent communication tool to a must-have, multi-purpose consumer gadget.The survey of 200 respondents shows that 33 per cent of individuals use their phone for […]

The global transition from analogue to digital TV broadcast is spurring TV makers to offer sets with more advanced video decoding chips capable of working with multiple and new video standards, according to iSuppli Corp. Global shipments of multi-standard video-decoder-equipped televisions are expected to rise to 966,000 units this year, up from zero in 2007. […]