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Cisco tops 4 out of 5 video infrastructure segments

New Q3 data from Synergy Research Group shows that Cisco has maintained its leadership in four of the five main video infrastructure market segments, though in video client hardware and software (which includes set-top boxes, residential gateways and associated software/middleware) it slipped to third ranked position, being overtaken by Pace. In the other major change […]

December 31, 2013

Pay-TV sweats legacy assets in 4K wait

Pay-TV providers are sweating their existing encoding assets as they wait for the next generation of platforms that support HEVC, according to the findings of Infonetics Research’s 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. “Pay-TV […]

December 19, 2013

YouGov: 2014 the year of UltraViolet

YouGov has released its Media, Technology & Telecoms outlook for 2014, setting out which device-driven trends to look out for over the coming year. Based on analysis of rich consumer data from the past 12 months, YouGov’s researchers have pin-pointed four areas

December 18, 2013

LED TV penetration rate surpasses 60% in 2014

Spurred by Chinese TV manufacturers’ demands, LED TV penetration rates reached 95 per cent in 2013, according to LEDinside, a subsidiary of global research institute TrendForce. The organidation estimates LED TV will completely replace CCFL by 2014, and annual LED TV shipment volume will grow at YOY 3 per cent to 209 million. However, LED […]

December 17, 2013

Malaysia four screen market $3.8bn in 2013

Amidst an uncertain economy in Malaysia and consumers holding back their spending, devices under the four screens—smartphones, tablets, laptops and TVs are still in demand as sales surged to over $3.86 billion in the first ten months of this year. Mobile handsets registered total sales volume of 939,000 in January to October 2013. Monthly sales […]

December 17, 2013

Connected TV device ownership to double by 2017

Predicting a future of increasingly connected living rooms with improving streaming capabilities, the global number of Connected TV devices is set to grow from an average of just 0.5 per household in 2013 to 1.0 per household by 2017, according to a report from Strategy Analytics. The report predicts a five-year Compound Average Growth Rate […]

December 16, 2013

Transcoder vendor revenues boosted by HEVC

MRG, an SNL Kagan company and specialist in the video and media, has released its latest report, Multiformat Transcoding. Many live transcoders are bought by pay-TV providers who are offering TV Everywhere multiscreen services out of fear of OTT providers undermining their business. They are spending money without generating additional revenue or improving margins. The […]

December 16, 2013

EU broadband: Steady spread of next-gen

The number of European homes able to get superfast Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband increased sharply in 2012.  The growth was driven mainly by a combination of technologies.  These are among the key findings of a new report, produced by Point Topic for the European Commission. “For the past years, I have stressed on every […]

December 16, 2013

133% surge in mobile and tablet video views

Ooyala has released its Q3 2013 Global Video Index, revealing distinct patterns in how viewers consume video across devices. While mobile viewing levels off in Q3 due to seasonal factors, the overall share of mobile and tablet video views increased by 74 per cent since January. Furthermore, mobile and tablet video plays have more than […]

December 11, 2013

Elemental named market leader by SNL Kagan

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has been named the multiformat and OTT video processing market leader across multiple regions by research released from SNL Kagan. The ranking follows an ABI Research report issued which was issued earlier this year and cited Elemental as the leader in live multiscreen encoder […]

December 11, 2013