Online video has surpassed peer-to-peer usage as the largest generator of global broadband traffic, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Usage report.
Pay-TV reaches 50% of all Asian TV homes
CASBAA has announced that pay-TV in Asia has reached the tipping point of 50% penetration of all Asian TV homes. This development opens the door to massive growth in ad […]
US digital home entertainment spend up 23%
Digital distribution, which includes electronic sell-through (EST) and video-on-demand (VOD), is firmly established in the US, having made up 13.5% of the overall consumer spend in home entertainment year-to-date. EST […]
French digital homes surpass 85%
At the end of the first quarter of 2010, 85.8% of the 27 million television households in France had at least one digital receiver in the home, be it DTT, […]
US DTH operators profitable after 7 years
US DTH operators Dish Network and DirecTV both achieved profitability in close to seven years in operation at a penetration of approximately 7% of television households. According to US research […]
3D TV not growing as fast as expected
3DTV is now readily available in retail, but the uptake among consumers has been limited by high prices and lack of content, according to US research firm DisplaySearch. However, with […]
Connected TV market set for explosive growth
40 million connected TVs are expected to be shipped in 2010, a adding to a market that is expected to grow to over 118 million in 2014, according to US […]
UK cordcutters equal to US
The percentage of UK pay-TV subscribers that are considering leaving their supplier in favour of alternative suppliers is identical to that of their US counterparts.
Germany boosts 1,275 video sites
Every day Germans view about 151 million videos, according to the Web TV Monitor 2010 published by the Bavarian media authority BLM, based on research by Goldmedia. The survey also […]
Germany counts 155 private channels
The German media monopoly commission KEK said there were 135 German language private national channels in the country as well as 20 channels in foreign languages as at July 1, […]