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Broadcaster, Sky PLC, reported strong Q1 operating profit of £375 million ($578.4 million), a 10% YoY increase from £340 million ($524 million). Turnover increased by 6% to £2.79 billion ($4.3 billion), from £2.65 billion ($4 billion), assuming exchange rates are constant for both periods. Strong customer growth in terms of addition of 134,000 new customers … Read more
Technicolor announced increased turnover of €877 million ($987.9 million) for Q3 versus €843 million ($949.6 million), indicating an increase of 4% YoY. In terms of segments, Entertainment Services was the strongest, with a 28% increase to €423 million ($476.5 million) from €330 million ($371.7 million), supporting the group turnover increase in spite of a fall … Read more
Verizon said that it has added 42,000 additional FiOS Video connections in Q3 2015, with 114,000 new fios internet connections. The total video connections is now 5.8 million, up from 5.533 million for the same period a year ago.
Videocon d2h has added 0.2 million net new subscribers in India in Q3 2015, to bring its total up to 14.27 million which it claims as a 21% market share of the DTH market.
Transparency Market Research released a new report that forecasts that the global STB market will reach a value of $24 billion by 2022, with CAGR of 6.4% from 2015 onwards. The firm said that digitization continues to be a factor. 31% of the market is in the Asia Pacific region which also has the highest … Read more
Parks Associates said that 45% of Western European broadband households own a smart TV, with the highest percentage in Germany, where over 50% of broadband households have this type of internet-connected CE device.
Revenue generated by the German AV market will exceed €10 billion this year for the first time. The forecast comes from the Association of Commercial Broadcasters and Audiovisual Services in Germany (VPRT). VPRT expects the market to rise 5.5% YoY, based on a total revenue generation of €10.2 billion. VPRT forecasts 8.3% growth in the … Read more
Omantel said it would work with Du of Dubai to bring IPTV to Oman, using technology from Du.
360Heros of the US said that it has been issued with a patent covering the multi-camera 360 video holding assemblies it has been developing. The firm said that US patent for invention number 9,152,019 B2 is for camera holding assemblies which hold multiple cameras in a preset, 360 Plug-n-Play orientation. The orientations falling under the … Read more
Insight Media’s Chris Chinnock was asked by Digital Projection to give presentations about how to create great home theater images and to highlight DP’s two Insight projectors. On display were the Insight 4K Laser projector and the Insight 4K Dual LED projector. Chinnock started the presentation by describing four key factors in producing a great … Read more
IHS said that touch panel shipments for notebooks were down 7% QoQ in the second quarter at 4.6 million units according to a report in the CTimes. The total market in the first half was 9.5 million from 10.2 million in 2014. However, revenues were down 23.9% to $104.86 million, bringing the total market to … Read more
Eutelsat and Bayerischer Rundfunk ran an UltraHD showcase at the Medientag München 2015 this week. A 6 minute video of Audi and the TU München in Garching were transmitted on Eutelsat’s Ultra HD showcase channel 4K1 on Hot Bird (13° East) according to Broadband TV News. Image:medientage.de
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