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Vodafone has halted plans to launch a UK pay-TV service. Vittorio Colao, Vodafone’s chief executive, told The Telegraph that the service was ready and could be launched within weeks but that Vodafone now has …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
Orion Express, the Russian DTH service, saw its subscriber base grow by 5% in 2016 to 2.953 million. At the same time revenue growth went up by 2% to R3.5 billion (€54.2 million). ARPU …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Russia| Satellite| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
According to research by Telecompaper, viewers in the Netherlands would prefer to switch to TV over the Internet if the main public and commercial channels were available via apps on their smart TVs. Some …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netherlands| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 06
by Alan Spencer
In the Czech Republic, the incumbent O2 ended 2016 with 221,000 IPTV and OTT subscribers for its TV service, up 6.1% more than a year earlier. O2 has a complementary service called Multi that …
Tags:Czech Republic| IPTV| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
Last year, Telekom Austria saw modest growth in its pay-TV businesses in Bulgaria and Croatia. In Bulgaria, it ended the year with 478,200 pay-TV RGUs representing a 3.3% increase on the total at the …
Tags:Austria| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
Mozilla has stopped Firefox OS development and laid off a team of around 50 people who were working on the project. This effectively marks the end of the company’s attempts to build a commercial …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Software| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
Sony will be removing YouTube on 2012 Blu-ray players and cinema systems due to apparent problems caused by changes by Google. Last year, the YouTube app disappeared from 2012 Sony TVs and the time …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| Smart TV| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
Figures released by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, show that global shipments of LCD TV sets for 2016 increased 1.6% percent annually to reach 219.2 million units. Shipment growth was attributed to the strong …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
According to Digitimes Research, seven China-based panel makers have been expanding existing or setting up new AMOLED production capacities. Total annual capacity is estimated to increase from 272,000 m² in 2016 to 1.584 million …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
According to Digitimes Research, Taiwan-based makers shipped 312.94 million small and medium-sized TFT-LCD panels (i.e. panels below nine inches) in the last quarter of 2016, This represents an increase of 1.0% on quarterly results …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Small Medium Panel Supply| Taiwan| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
According to the South Korea-based Chosun Ilbo (Chosun Daily Newspaper), Samsung Display is in talks with the government of Bac Ninh Province of North Vietnam with the intention of reaching an agreement to provide …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| OLED Fabs| Samsung Display| Vol 24 - Issue 05
by Alan Spencer
The FCC in the US is circulating a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to authorise TV broadcasters to use the ATSC 3.0 broadcast television transmission standard on a voluntary, market-driven basis. The NPRM …
Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 05
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