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2012 pay-TV market revenue $236bn

The worldwide pay-TV market is growing on all major TV platforms worldwide, including cable, satellite, and IPTV, according to ABI Research’s pay-TV Market Data, which looks at average revenue per user (ARPU) and revenues worldwide. Pay-TV service revenue is expected to reach $236 billion by the end of 2012, up from $223 billion in 2011, […]

October 24, 2012

Foxtel’s HBO exclusive deal targets piracy and FTA

In a move that will help combat Internet piracy and further differentiates it from free-to-air services, Australian pay-TV provider Foxtel has agreed a new output deal with premium US content producer HBO that will deliver new shows to Australian screens sooner. The new agreement gives Foxtel exclusive first run of all HBO content as well […]

October 24, 2012By Colin Mann

US IPTV subs will have doubled in 2017

At Telco TV this week, Parks Associates will share new research in video services, which shows telcos will lead the next stage in pay-TV services as the number of IPTV subscribers in the US will exceed 18 million in 2017. The research shows that telcos are leveraging their fibre-based broadband offerings to attract new customers: […]

October 24, 2012

Dune HD and Beenius partner to deliver best Of breed IPTV solution to operators

Operators looking to deploy IPTV and Video on Demand (VoD) will benefit from faster, lower-risk implementations that enable them to offer more services to users through a major partnership between Dune HD and Beenius announced today at TelcoTV2012. This will be demonstrated on the Beenius booth (number 105) at TelcoTV. As part of the partnership, […]

October 23, 2012

Halton: ‘YouView throws down gauntlet’

Describing YouView as “delighted” with industry reception to the UK open IPTV platform since the launch of its first STB in July, Richard Halton, CEO, has confirmed that looking forward, the service is looking to extend the range of on-demand content, particularly in terms of opening the door to smaller content providers who want to […]

October 18, 2012By Colin Mann

Satellite STBs surge in Q2

Market research firm Infonetics has released excerpts from two recent video reports; one tracking equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and a second tracking IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid STBs and OTT media servers. “Thanks to a 7 per cent increase in encoder spending by North American cable and satellite […]

October 18, 2012

ruwido wins TELUS IPTV deal

Input device specialist ruwido has secured a major supply deal with Canadian telco TELUS. The Austrian firm will provide the remote controls for TELUS’s Optik IPTV service. The deployment supports ruwido’s efforts to expand to new markets and regions outside Europe. ruwido has supplied TELUS with its r107 remote control, designed to meet TELUS’s objective […]

October 18, 2012By Colin Mann

TV software is key to unlocking pay-tv opportunities

Multimedia Research Group, a specialist in the Video and Media ecosystem, has published its Multiplatform TV Middleware and Applications report. Pay TV has been on a collision course with the Internet for more than a decade, but not only has online delivery not yet cannibalised pay TV revenues to any great extent, it also has […]

October 17, 2012

Ryder Cup record-breaking figures for Sky Go

Sky Sports coverage of the 2012 Ryder Cup attracted record levels of online and mobile viewing to Sky’s multiplatform TV service Sky Go. Alongside the live HD and 3D coverage on Sky Sports, which reached almost 5 million TV viewers during the course of the tournament, a record-breaking 700,000 Sky customers followed the live action […]

October 8, 2012

Rightster gets 100mYouTube views per month

Rightster, the video distribution and monetisation specialist, delivered more than 100 million worldwide views and 100,000 social media shares in the month of September. The company jumped to 11th position in the most recent comScore YouTube Partner Channels rankings (August 2012), up from 16th position three months earlier. The Rightster multi-channel network has grown to […]

October 5, 2012