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Roku Has Added 2 Million Players Since January

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More than 10 million Roku media players have been sold in the USA, the company has announced. The figure represents a 2 million unit increase since January, and roughly twice as many shipment as …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| Roku| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Pay-TV Has Declined Since USA’s Digital Switch

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About 84% of US households take some form of pay-TV service, according to the Leichtman Research Group (LRG). While the number of subscribers has remained fairly flat since 2010, the number of households has …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Pay TV| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

NPD Predicts 39% Streaming Media Penetration

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6 million US homes purchased streaming media players between Q2’13 and Q2’14, according to The NPD Group. The figure means that 17% of US internet households now have such a device. The NPD Group …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Media Players| NPD DisplaySearch| USA| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Work on a Common Foundation, Says DTG White Paper

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The UK’s Digital TV Group has published a white paper covering developments in the TV industry. They include the UltraHD format (including framerates, gamuts and dynamic range); video delivery to mobiles; spectrum management; connected …

Tags:DTG| DTV| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

TiVo’s DVR is for Serious Videophiles

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Aiming at the custom AV sector, TiVo has unleashed a massive DVR: the TiVo Mega, boasting 24TB of storage space. The unit can record 26,000 hours of content in SD or 4,000 in HD. …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pro AV| PVRs (DVRs) Personal Digital Video Recorders| Tivo| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Streaming Video Popularity Almost Equals Broadcast

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The popularity of streamed video is now almost equal to broadcast, according to Ericsson. The organisation says that, in 23 countries, 75% of people watch streamed content several times a week, compared to 77% …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TV Reception| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Serbia Sets ASO Date

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Serbia has set a date for the start of analogue switchoff. It will begin on the 1st March 2015 and be finished by the 1st May. Free set-top boxes will be distributed to some …

Tags:DTV| Europe| Large Display Monitor| STBs| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Netflix Enters Major Markets

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Netflix has made a major push in Europe, launching its service in France and Germany. Other countries – Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland – will follow soon, and a launch in Spain and Australia …

Tags:Europe| Large Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

GSMA Opposes EBU’s Views on 700MHz

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The GSMA, representing mobile operators, has called on the European Commission (EC) to hasten the switch of the UHF spectrum (470-790MHz) to mobile data traffic. The current plan is to achieve the move by …

Tags:EBU| GSMA| Large Display Monitor| Spectrum Allocation| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Dutch Digital Market Slowly Creeps Forward

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The Dutch digital TV market grew just 0.8% QoQ in Q2’14, according to Telecompaper. Subscribers totalled 6.76 million, from 6.72 million in Q1. The total market, including analogue customers, was 7.71 million, 87.7% of …

Tags:DTV| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| TV Reception| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

DCC Labs Joins HbbTV

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Poland’s DCC Labs joined the HbbTV initiative in July, it announced earlier this month. The organisation, which licenses software and provides integration and migration services for IPTV, DVB and OTT devices, was previously a …

Tags:HbbTV| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21

Connected Sets Approach 1 Billion in 2020

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Digital TV Research predicts that almost 1 billion TV sets (965 million) worldwide will be connected to the internet by 2020; up from 339 million expected at the end of this year. The figure …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21| Worldwide