Over half a million households across the UK have access to a satellite TV dish which they don't use, even though they are capable of receiving subscription-free, HD, digital satellite TV services. Research by Harvard International, the distributor of Grundig and Goodmans digital television equipment, estimates that 600,000 homes across the UK are missing out […]
Portugal had 2.44 million TV subscribers at the end of September after adding 71,000 subs during the third quarter of 2009 with subscriber growth across all platforms, according to regulator Anacom. Cable accounted for 60% of TV subscriptions during the quarter, cable now passes 4.28 million households, compared with 4.19 million a year earlier, and […]
Market research group DisplaySearch forecasts that the total stereoscopic 3D display market will grow from 0.7 million units and $902 million in revenues in 2008, to 196 million units and $22 billion in revenues in 2018 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38 per cent for revenues and 75 per cent for units. […]
The rise of video-on-demand viewing and online TV catch-up services will not kill the advertising-funded business models of traditional TV broadcasters over the next decade, according to a report by Enders Analysis. The research company said that despite the concern about viewing figures for watching TV via computers, 99 per cent of total viewing of […]
The UK showed the biggest increase in TV viewing last year across 11 western countries including France, Germany and the US, with each person watching an average of 3.75 hours a day, according to research published by Ofcom. The UK had the highest average increase in TV watching in 2008, up 3.2 per cent year […]
India is the fourth largest illegal downloader of online content, according to two reports released by the Motion Picture Distributors Association (MPDA). According to their findings, India trails only the US, Britain and Canada in online copyright infringement. Envisional’s report said online piracy of film and television content in India is mainly through file-sharing networks […]
Premium pay-TV gaming features do not currently maximize the market's revenue potential, according to a report from international research firm Parks Associates Many pay-TV providers, including Comcast, Cablevision, DISH Network, and DirecTV, offer premium packages that include simple, single-player games. The report finds roughly 5 per cent of broadband households in North America and Western […]
British consumers are lagging behind when it comes to access to the next generation super fast broadband connectivity. Data released by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has placed the UK at number 21 out of 30 countries in terms of broadband speed. The UK ranking is below Greece, France, Portugal and Spain. […]
US households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high […]
In October 2009, the number of households in Hungary using digital television topped the 1.1 million mark, according to the flash report released by the National Communications Authority (NHH). According to NHH estimates and previous surveys, of the close to 3.8 million Hungarian households approximately 3 million subscribe to some sort of television service. The […]