Catch-up TV service France TV Pluzz, operated by French PSB Group France Télévisions, will no longer be available on connected TV sets after July. The service will remain on a dedicated website as well as on mobile devices, tablets and smartphones. This is part of the group’s strategy to reorganise its digital TV services ahead […]
A study from Juniper Research has found that the value of digital content transactions paid for by carrier billing is expected to reach $47 billion (€42.5bn) by 2020, more than 4 times 2015’s figure of just under $11.3 billion. According to the research, Apple’s decision to test carrier billing in
Streaming entertainment specialist Roku is expanding its TV programme with the addition of Hitachi America as a new Roku TV partner. Writing in the Roku Blog, Chas Smith, SVP and general manager Roku TV & Players, says that Hitachi will take advantage of Roku’s TV reference design to build “superior” smart TVs that run the […]
An important milestone was passed in early 2016: more than half of TV sets shipped globally in first quarter 2016 were smart TVs. The acceleration in the uptake of internet-connected TVs was led by China, where four out of five TV sets shipped with smart functionality. Meanwhile, despite a seasonally quiet quarter, 56 per cent […]
IHS has released key findings from its Connected Device Market Monitor. As of year-end 2015, the world now contains 8.1 billion connected smartphones, tablets, personal computers, TVs, TV-attached devices and audio devices. On average, across the globe, this device base equates to four devices per household. “The proliferation of media-enabled
Promising to help subscribers to its Google Fiber networks in six US cities access all of their favourite shows, movies, music, and more adding Google Cast capabilities directly to their Fiber TV Box. Writing in the Google Fiber blog, Jared Nusinoff, Product Manager, Google Fiber says that Google Cast gives access to thousands of apps, […]
Spanish private TV Association UTECA – which represents the largest private TV groups in the country – wants new streaming operators in the market, such as Netflix, to finance and financially support the pubcaster RTVE and the production of Spanish films complying with the same obligations as the current private broadcasters. To this end, UTECA […]
NanoTech Entertainment announced that its award winning UltraFlix, home of thousands of hours of top Hollywood blockbuster movies, documentaries, TV series, concerts and sports, is now available on the Roku 2 and Roku 3 HD streaming set top boxes. While the state of the art in television is 4K Ultra HD, and consumers are quickly […]
Worldwide shipments of Smart TVs in the fourth quarter of 2015 reached 48.5 per cent of all TV sets shipped in the quarter, according to insight firm IHS. In all, 34.2 million smart TVs were shipped in the fourth quarter, contributing to shipments breaking the 100 million mark for the first time in 2015. Smart […]
According to TDG research, when forced to choose between legacy pay-TV and streaming services, dual-service users react differently according to their age. The younger the adult, the more likely they are to choose TV streaming services over legacy pay-TV, and vice versa. According to the TDG study, from the pending fifth edition of Benchmarking the […]