Following several years of healthy growth, demand for set top boxes continues to climb this year, on track to reach 228 million units shipped globally, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. However, as demand from maturing pay-TV markets like North America and Western Europe begins to slow, the market will start to see moderate decline […]
Copper networks continue to be a cash cow for telcos, delivering broadband over DSL to more than 367 million subscribers worldwide in 2011. Fibre to the Home (FTTH) technologies bring ten times the bandwidth compared to advanced DSL technologies. However, upgrades to advanced forms of DSL require a fraction of the investment of upgrades to […]
The UK is Western Europe’s leading market for connected devices, with an estimated 13.8 million devices receiving over-the-top video content at end-2011, a figure up 114.1 per cent year-over-year from 2010, according to SNL Kagan research. In 2011, UK households averaged 0.51 connected devices per home, up from 0.24 in 2010. SNL Kagan estimates the […]
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts vendor from its latest Home Networking Devices market share and forecast report. “Tablets, connected TVs, digital media players, and a growing list of other devices are driving sales of home networking devices, and this is nowhere more apparent than in North America, which captured 37 per cent of […]
Worldwide TV shipments fell almost 8 per cent Y/Y in Q1’12, the steepest rate of decline since Q2’09. Total TV shipments for the quarter were 51 million units, according to the latest release from NPD DisplaySearch. The biggest contributor to this decline was a slowdown in shipments of LCD TVs, which fell year-on-year for the […]
A report from Juniper Research has valued the ‘Smart Home’ market at $60 billion by 2017, rising from $25 billion this year – driven by strong growth within the smart home entertainment segment, along with contributions from other segments including smart monitoring & control and smart health. The report notes that there are many definitions […]
Over a quarter of TVs shipped during Q1 2012 were equipped with Internet connectivity, according to data from NPD DisplaySearch. Approximately 27 per cent of TV sets shipped worldwide had internet connectivity, led by Japan, where 46 per cent of sets had networking capability, and Western Europe with 36 per cent. In a good example […]
Many Smart TV owners are frustrated because of slow user interfaces and complex registration procedures, according to the latest research published by the Strategy Analytics Digital Home Observatory (DHO) service. The report, “Slow Connected TV Interfaces Inhibit App Store Exploration,” finds that users feel the performance of smart or connected TVs is much slower than […]
The annual Cisco VNI Forecast expects worldwide devices and connections to grow to almost 19 billion_ nearly doubling from 2011 to 2016. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyse Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected […]
GFU, the German CE association, predicts 26.5 million Internet-connected devices will be sold in Germany this year. GFU says the market will be made up of 15 million smartphones, 1.4 million tablets, seven million notebook computers and 3.1 million smart TVs. The association said that over four million smart TVs had been sold so far, […]