Research from GfK Media & Entertainment shows that the estimated number of Americans now relying exclusively on over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting increased to 59.7 million, up from 54 million just a year ago. The percentage of TV households currently OTA reliant has now grown from 14 per cent in 2010 to 19.3 per cent in […]
Based on forecasts for 97 countries, global pay TV revenues (subscription fees and on-demand content) will climb to $203 billion in 2018, up by $19 billion on 2012. According to the Digital TV World Revenue Forecasts report the fast growth years for the sector are over, with annual growth hovering at below 2 per cent […]
Liberty Global has entered the bidding for Kabel Deutschland potentially tabling a €7.5 billion offer to top Vodafone’s bid last week. The FT reports that Liberty has made a bid of about €85 a share. KDG confirmed that it had “a preliminary proposal” from Liberty. Liberty said the KDG’s statement was accurate but declined to […]
Appear TV, a leading global provider of next-generation head-ends for broadcast and IP television, today announced that it has designed and is to launch a cable head-end to specifically meet the technical and business issues faced by India’s cable operators that are mandated to switch from analogue to digital. The cable dedicated head-end will be […]
Currently, the overall number of pay-TV subscriber households is estimated at around 804 million by MRG. Over 55 per cent of the total number of TV households (more than 1.42 billion) are subscribed to a pay-TV service. APAC represents the region with the most rapidly growing pay-TV base. Meanwhile, mature markets, North America and Europe, […]
Thomson Video Networks has unveiled a new range of headend solutions tailored to the specific requirements and capabilities of cable operators in India. Based on the common Indian channel line-up, each solution is designed to provide the appropriate level of encoding for a particular channel format. For SD content and channels available only through broadcasters’ […]
Cable MSO Kabel Deutschland has issued a statement saying that it notes recent speculation regarding a potential offer for Kabel Deutschland Holding AG and confirms that it has received a preliminary approach by Vodafone Group PLC regarding a possible offer for the company. “There is no certainty that any offer will ultimately be made nor […]
At Cable 2013, CableLabs and Broadcom demonstrated “the path to next-generation service delivery” unveiling a live demonstration of Multi-Gbps HFC access using core technologies from the DOCSIS 3.1 specifications. In the demo, next-generation cable transport – including DOCSIS 3.1 and EPoC (EPON Protocol over Coax) – use technologies from Broadcom to encode digital data across […]
Sigma Systems believes that cable operators must expand their service portfolios to include new revenue-generating services such as home automation and home security for the residential market and cloud applications for the SMB (small and medium business) market to combat revenue loss from declines in legacy offerings. “Communication service providers (CSPs), and in particular cable […]
At The Cable Show in Washington D.C. this week, Cisco is showcasing advancements in its Videoscape Unity IP video platform. Visitors will see how Cisco is engineering openness and modularity into Videoscape Unity by extending Cisco Open Networking Environment (ONE) to video, how Videoscape Unity is embracing open software, and how Cisco is integrating third-party vendors […]