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According to GfK figures, reported by Advanced Television, TV set sales in France for 2016 reached 6.5 million boosted by the Euro 2016 football tournament. Sales reportedly jumped by 1.4 million compared to 2015 according to the figures. Also, GfK predicts that sales will decrease in 2017 with 5.3 million units sold but with two … Read more
Spain’s Mediapro and La Liga agreed a deal to stream the semi-finals of La Copa Del Rey (King’s Cup) to 40 countries on Facebook. Some of the countries included in the live streaming were the UK, Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Russia, most of the countries in the Middle East, China and Australia. The Mediapro streaming signal, … Read more
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 other higher priorities – namely building its share of the broadband market and improving trading on its home ground. Vodafone has … Read more
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 for the Orion Express basic package grew by 24% to R103 and by 9% to R277 for the main package. DTH … Read more
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 60% would cancel their RTL pay-TV plans and some 57% would cancel their NPO public channels if apps were available. For … Read more
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 allows customers to watch TV on more than one device at the same time and this has become very popular since … Read more
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 end of 2015. In Croatia, it ended the year with 202,400 pay-TV revenue generating units (RGUs) representing a 7.2% increase. In … Read more
Stream TV Networks has announced that Beta Digital Media Solutions are their official distributors in the UK. Digital Media Solutions will be distributing Stream TV’s Ultra-D glasses-free 3D solution.
NEC Display Solutions Europe has today launched the NEC Solutions Zone, a free web-based information and networking tool for professional end-users, distributors, NEC’s eco-partners and reseller partners. The platform supports Pan-European as well as local suppliers and partners. By providing deep insights into a broad range of real installation scenarios, the platform makes users aware … Read more
Samsung has released the 2017 versions of its mid-range A3, A5 and A7 smartphones around the world and the handsets have been made available immediately. The devices have an AP68 certification meaning that they can be submerged for 30 minutes at 1.5 metres depth. The displays on the A7 and A5 are 1920 x 1080 … Read more
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 platform for connected devices. Ari Jaaski, the senior VP in charge of Firefox OS and a director of the group’s software, … Read more
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 has now come for Blu-ray players and home cinema systems of the same generation to suffer the same fate. The app … Read more
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