Connected TVs were the most popular devices to watch BBC iPlayer on over the festive period – with unique browsers on connected TVs up 32 per cent on the same period in 2014. Connected TVs accounted for 38 per cent of unique browsers, followed by 24 per cent on tablets, 22 per cent on computers […]
Among the standouts at this year’s CES is virtual reality (VR), which involves the use of a head-mounted display that tracks the user’s head movements and translates them into an immersive wide-angle video display. A TDG report outlines the forces shaping the diffusion of this technology, and offers detailed global and US forecasts for both […]
A European consumer survey examining 4K consumer adoption and preferences revealed by Parks Associates at CES 2016 suggests that some 17 per cent of broadband households in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain are planning to buy a flat-panel TV in the next 12 months and over 50 per cent consider 4K an important or […]
Amazon has reported that Christmas 2015 was a record-breaker for Amazon Prime, Amazon Original Series and Amazon devices. More than three million members worldwide joined Prime during the third week of December, bringing milestone growth to the membership programme which
A report on consumer fixed broadband performance in the United States – Measuring Broadband America – prepared by the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau reports “significant growth” in broadband speeds and in the uptake of these higher speeds by consumers, though results are not uniform across technologies. “Spurred […]
A survey by TV Licensing has revealed that over 9000 UK households are still watching TV in monochrome nearly 50 years after the first colour broadcast. Despite a huge spike in the number of people using HD TVs, 4K TVs, smartphones and tablets to watch content over the last decade, 9,356 families still use a […]
Findings from content delivery network services specialist Akamai Technologies’ Third Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report indicate that European countries dominate a number of key connectivity metrics, with a growth in IP addresses having 15 Mbps ‘4K-ready’ connection speeds. “While we did observe an
According to a report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, shipments of connected wearables reached 72.5 million in 2015, up from 25.3 million devices in the previous year. Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 25.8 percent, total shipments of smartwatches, smart glasses, fitness & activity trackers, people monitoring & safety devices and […]
Ultra HD (4K) TVs are expected to make up 23.7 per cent of LCD TV shipments in 2016, up 9.3pp on year. Because of the increase, demand for LEDs used in TV backlighting applications will rise and approximately 20-30 per cent more LEDs will be used in 4K TVs over Full HD units, according to […]
Research from Parks Associates finds that 14 per cent of US broadband households plan to buy a streaming media player by midyear 2016 and that, as of the third quarter of 2015, 31 per cent of these households currently own a streaming media player, up from 27 per cent at the beginning of the year. […]