Freesat, the subscription free satellite TV service, has published strong Q4 results, adding 31,000 homes and bringing total households served to over 1.8 million. Freesat now reaches over 3.8 million UK viewers. Freesat’s continuing growth demonstrates the clear attraction of premium TV on a subscription-free basis. With a Freesat box, viewers have access to over […]
SNL Kagan MRG, a specialist in the Video and Media ecosystem, has released its latest report, ‘MPEG Broadcast Contribution Encoders’. Contribution encoders are used to compress the video and audio stream coming from the camera, truck or venue before it is transmitted to the studio. Contribution encoders are also used for compressing the stream as […]
The global installed base of TV-centric connected devices surpassed one billion units in 2013 and will exceed two billion by 2017, driven by smart TV, IP-enabled STBs, game consoles, Blu-ray players and low cost digital media adapters, according to the latest research from Futuresource Consulting. “TV sales account for 70 per cent of traditional
Connected TV is gaining momentum in Spain and set to boom this year. ADETI, the Association of Interactive TV companies, reports that 2014 will be a year of “commercial consolidation” for connected TV with the HbbTV standard widely adopted. ADETI research reveals that there are currently 2.7 million smart TVs in the country, of which […]
DirecTV’s Genie, Liberty Global’s Horizon, Dish’s Hopper and the boxes that power Comcast’s X1 service have something in common other than better marketing names than an older generation of boxes more commonly known by model names such as “DCT6200”. These feature-rich boxes bring more tuners to centralise DVR resources (minimising DVR conflicts), as well as […]
The multi-screen approach by viewers is intensifying in Spain with the availability of different connected devices and platforms. This is the main conclusion of Telefonica´s annual report about the Information Society which highlights that viewers have more and more access to TV content through mobile devices, with 67 per cent of smart users (26 million […]
Findings from Juniper Research reveal that the Phablet (a smartphone having a screen size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer), once perceived to have limited potential, will ship over 120 million units by 2018, rising from
A survey by TNS Global buying trends for TVs in the US, especially related to the upcoming Super Bowl. With TV purchases increasing each January (1 million in 2005 to over 7 million in 2013), the survey verifies the growth claiming it’s now the leading time of year that Americans say they will buy a […]
Insights from GfK’s MultiMedia Mentor show that teenagers’ Internet use is growing faster than that of any other key age group, abetted by a variety of devices – smartphones, tablets, videogame consoles, and connected TVs. Time spent online by teens (ages 13 to 17) rose 37 per cent, to just over 4 hours per day, […]
Despite a few false starts, television brands remain committed to the success of active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) sets, with the new impetus evident at the International CES expected to cause shipments to rise to more than 10 million units in 2018, according to IHS Technology. Global unit shipments of AMOLED television panels […]