New IPTV entrants are winning over subscribers from established pay-TV providers, particularly in Brazil and Russia, says Infonetics Research. The research points to Russia’s Rostelecom, Brazil’s GVT and Dutch provider KPN as notable new players that are posing a challenge to incumbents. In one year, KPN saw a jump of 77 per cent in IPTV subscribers. […]
Spanish pay-TV is outperforming FTA TV in terms of revenues. For the first time in its history, pay-TV turnover exceeded FTA TV revenues in 2012, according to the annual report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Total pay TV turnover amounted to €1.7 billion in 2012 surpassing FTA TV revenues of €1.6 billion. Pay-TV […]
Time Warner Cable is nearing a deal with Apple to provide access to cable TV through the Apple TV set-top box. An agreement between TWC, the No. 2 US cable operator, and Apple is expected within the next few months, according to Bloomberg. A deal with Time Warner Cable would be a first with a […]
The number of pay-TV households (analogue and digital) reached 772 million by 2012, up from 585 million in 2008, according to a report from Digital TV Research. Asia Pacific increased by 126 million – or two-thirds of the global additions – during this period to bring its total to 433 million. North America (112 million) […]
The use of catch-up or on demand television services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player now accounts for a fifth of the nation’s TV viewing according to the first-ever YouView census into national television habits for 2013. It also found that in a typical week, the average Brit claims to record just under nine […]
Marc Watson, CEO of BT TV, has said the telco will “stick around for the long term” with its sports channels and declared that the company had “deep pockets” to enable it to compete for premium sports rights. He said that BT wanted BT Sport to grow its whole consumer business in the UK, and […]
Darren Childs, CEO of UKTV, has revealed that the broadcaster’s channels are to be carried on open IPTV platform YouView later in the year. Delivering a keynote address at the IEA Future of Broadcasting Conference in London on the relationship between the Internet and broadcasting, Childs noted that in the early days, TV had spent […]
DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF), the organisation dedicated to promoting interoperable streaming of multimedia content over Internet, has released DASH-AVC/264, its recommended guidelines for deployment of the MPEG-DASH standard. The MPEG-DASH specification provides a standard method for streaming multimedia content over Internet by simplifying and converging delivery of IP video. This improves user experience while decreasing […]
Despite 2012 being a year of great live content, UK video publishers and operators were only able to deliver a quarter of it (23.5 per cent) at optimal quality. This left online viewers with buffering and poor picture quality. The UK’s online viewing population is maturing, streaming content at least once a day (60 per […]
Global shipments of Digital Media Adapters – devices designed to stream content to the TV from the Internet and IP connected devices – will grow nearly 40 per cent this year, with the market on track to double in size by 2017, according to an industry report from Futuresource Consulting. “The market shipped almost 13 […]