The consumer electronics market may be set for recovery, according to the latest purchase intention data from Strategy Analytics’ ConsumerMetrix service. Compared to the previous survey in Q4 2012, more consumers across the US and Europe are now intending to buy HDTVs, Blu-ray disc players and connected TV players over the coming twelve months. The […]
The global TV market will return to growth in 2013 after shipments fell by 6 per cent last year, with growth continuing out to 2017 according to a new report – Global TV Market Report – from Futuresource Consulting. The firm also suggests that 4K video will start breaking through from 2015. “Our forecasts show […]
The European Union’s Digital Agenda calls for every citizen and business to have access to broadband that provides at least 2 megabits per second by 2013. Today that’s largely possible. In fact more than 99 per cent of the population of the EU can get ten times that. “Now that twenty megabit bandwidths are commonly […]
Findings from research firm IHS suggest that despite the pay-TV industry’s increasing focus on delivering services to alternative devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets, what it describes as its traditional flagship platform – the set-top box – continues to thrive, with market shipments set to hit record highs in 2013, 2014 and 2015. According […]
Smart TVs are getting a thumbs-down from early adopters, according to research from Strategy Analytics’ Digital Home Observatory. The study offers an in-depth examination of how the behaviour of eight advanced user households has changed over the past three years as new connected TV technologies have arrived. Even though half of the sample had acquired […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its Q1 2013 Set-Top Boxes and Pay TV Subscribers market share and forecast report, which tracks IP, cable, satellite and DTT STBs and OTT media servers. “Cable STBs bucked the seasonal trend in the first quarter of 2013, notching modest gains in both revenue and shipments,” […]
The latest Australian Multi-Screen Report reveals an increasingly connected Australian home, with 27 per cent now having access to four screens: television, computer, smartphone an tablet (16 per cent a year ago). The report, which covers the first quarter of calendar 2013, shows media consumption patterns are evolving as households add new technologies. Overall television […]
Europeans consumers are not getting the broadband download speeds they pay for. On average, they receive only 74 per cent of the advertised headline speed they have paid for, according to a new European Commission study on fixed broadband performance. According to commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, this is the first time the difference between […]
Global digital TV households will continue a growth trend, and exceed 1 billion by the end of 2014. This represents a significant increase from the end of 2012 when digital cable, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial (DTT) households totaled 755 million. A Strategy Analytics forecast shows a 6 year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7 […]
Despite 2012 being a year of great live content, UK video publishers and operators were only able to deliver a quarter of it (23.5 per cent) at optimal quality. This left online viewers with buffering and poor picture quality. The UK’s online viewing population is maturing, streaming content at least once a day (60 per […]