The latest results of the survey produced by Eutelsat and Ipsos on TV reception modes and trends in Russia underscore the dynamic of its satellite broadcasting market and the stellar growth of homes watching channels broadcast from the longstanding 36° East neighbourhood. Of the 53 million TV homes in Russia, 24 per cent are equipped […]
Sandvine, a provider of broadband network solutions, has released its Internet traffic trends report based on data from a selection of Sandvine’s 200-plus service provider customers spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Caribbean and Latin America and Asia-Pacific. “We predict from this data that 2013 will be the year long-form video will make […]
Netflix has named Virgin Media the UK’s fastest Internet service provider for the sixth consecutive month, based on its high average broadband speeds. Netflix launched its ISP Speed Index in November 2012, and releases new figures every month to advise customers which is the best ISP for TV and film streaming. “The Netflix ISP Speed […]
Shopping on smart TV will boom in the UK, with 25 per cent of people doing it by the end of 2014 generating sales of nearly £750 million (€886.7 million). The forecast comes in a report by The Future Laboratory, commissioned by Samsung The report says that sport now tops the list for new, interactive […]
According to data from TDG, home network diffusion among US broadband households has reached 84 per cent, up from 81 per cent in 2011. TDG’s latest report on the key trends impacting digital media, also notes that router placement and network-related behaviour is increasingly defined by streaming media as opposed to data-related activities. “Over the […]
Annual revenue generated from content delivered to mobile handsets and tablets is expected to increase by nearly $25 billion over the next three years, reaching $65 billion by 2016, a report from Juniper has found. According to the report, growth would primarily be fuelled by an upsurge in game, video and eBook purchases via tablet […]
Google Fiber has been sold to roughly a third of homes in the few neighbourhoods where it’s offered in Kansas City, US. Bernstein Research surveyed about 200 homes in the narrow areas where the high-speed Internet and TV service is offered, or where it soon will be. It found that of the third subscribing to […]
Forty-seven per cent of home entertainment devices (Internet-capable TVs, Blu-ray Disc Players, video game consoles, and streaming media devices) are currently connected and being used for their online capabilities. But the degree to which these devices are used online varies significantly, according to global information company The NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Connected Home report. Internet-capable […]
According to analysis by TDG, 56 per cent of all US broadband households have at least one TV connected to the Internet, either directly via smart TVs or indirectly via ancillary devices like game consoles and Blu-ray players. “Whether your goal is delivering OTT services to the TV, or expanding the level of control pay-TV […]
The number of Italian households with a TV set that supports High Definition has exceeded 17 million, about 70 per cent of the total, according to industry association HD Forum Italia.However, only one in five are actually watching HD broadcasts because the free-to-air offer on Digital Terrestrial Television is limited to one HD channel from […]