Americans are increasingly replacing their once-enviable 50-inch TVs with even bigger screens; sized 65-inches and upwards. Buyers are opting for giant screens — pushing sales of them up 50 per cent in the past year while overall TV sales have faltered, according to research from NPD Group. As prices fall,
Data from Kantar Media’s syndicated study, futurePROOF, shows that tablets have become mainstream consumer devices with more than half of 16-44s now having access to them. Forty-five per cent of all UK adults
Tablets, especially for younger owners, are an extension of the TV viewing experience. According to the new Connected TV App Discovery Report from NPD Connected Intelligence while watching TV, 56 per cent of US tablet owners age 18-34 use their tablet for
Pay-TV operators are at the top of the set-top box food chain, with hardware OEMs and semiconductor vendors both functioning in a supporting role, according to ABI Research’s Set-top Box Opportunities and Leaders. The largest operators are responsible for the functional definition and direction, and have significant ownership over at least the logical layers of […]
Driven by the World Cup, 530,000 TVs were sold last month in France, representing a 25 per cent growth year on year. A total of 2.3 million TVs have been sold since the beginning of the year. After a two year decrease, a study
Research from Parks Associates reports that usage of Google Chromecast appears to be declining while adoption of streaming media players has increased to nearly 20 per cent of US broadband households, up from 14 per cent in 2012. The research, which includes data and analysis of a Q1 2014 consumer survey of
More than half of Sky’s subscribers have now connected their Sky+HD box to broadband, giving them access to the full range of on-demand services. Sky said the total number of connected Sky+HD boxes has
Worldwide shipments of flat-panel televisions rose convincingly in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, a stronger-than-expected showing that puts the industry on firm footing for the year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. The market for LCD TV was particularly robust, climbing 4 percent from January to […]
A broadband mapping report reveals a huge opportunity – which no-one is yet taking up. Over five million British homes and businesses are already paying for superfast broadband services. But there is little sign that anybody is yet trying to sell
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from its latest Broadcast and Streaming Video Equipment and Pay TV Subscribers report, which tracks pay-TV subscribers and video equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable, and satellite TV providers.