Over one million illegal set-top boxes with add-ons that allow consumers to stream content illegally have been sold in the UK in the last two years, putting the public at significant risk, according to a new report, Cracking Down on Digital Piracy, which collates expert insights from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), FACT, City of […]
Sales of TV sets in Italy dropped by nearly 10 per cent in the period January to July 2017, compared to the same period last year. Although Italians are buying less TV sets, they are spending more on them, according to a report from the GfK research institute. The average price for a TV set […]
French TV sales are in decline: less than 2 million TV sets were sold over the first six months of 2017 against 3.9 million in the same period last year. This represents a 46 per cent decrease according to GfK. The research company forecasts around 4.9 million units will be sold this year, around 150,000 […]
The annual IP crime and enforcement report: 2016 to 2017 from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office, which highlights current and emerging counterfeiting and piracy threats in the UK and overseas, suggests that one of the biggest challenges facing the pay-TV industry is the sale and use of illicit streaming devices, commonly
Parks Associates has released a report showing that despite an initially conservative approach to IoT opportunities, many different types of EU companies are now pioneering approaches and introducing beneficial IoT use cases for their customers. According to IoT Connectivity in Europe: Value of Connected Products, companies in this space across the globe are exploring strategies […]
Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset is gaining market share on digital gaming platform Steam, according to data from Valve, with the Vive’s main rival increasing its hold on the PC platform by 8.1 per cent in August. Valve has
IAB Australia’s Video Council – the trade association for online advertising in Australia – has released the country’s first white paper on Connected TV (CTV) which reveals that CTV now accounts for up to 35 per cent of Australian broadcaster’s online video supply. The study, Connected TV: The New Era of Television, examines why, despite […]
Findings from Parks Associates indicate that Roku is increasing its lead in the streaming media player landscape. As of Q1 2017, 37 per cent of streaming media players owned by US broadband households are Roku devices, up from one-third in Q1 2016. The firm’s latest industry report – Reinventing CE: Transforming Devices to Service Platforms […]
IHS Markit research shows that sales of high-end OLED displays are growing. The latest numbers from IHS, and reported by Large Display Monitor (LDM), say that OLED will grow to dominate the TV market for sets that cost more than $1,000 which took 5 per cent of the overall market in 2016, but more than […]
Virtual Reality (VR) is often viewed through the lens of consumer-driven gaming, but in a recent B2B technology survey of 455 US-based companies across nine vertical markets, ABI Research finds that while only 4 per cent of respondents have VR in operation, 85 per cent are at least in the stages of early investigation. In […]