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According to Venturebeat, HTC’s wearable (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 7) will be a wristband, not a smartwatch. The device will be shown off at CES, but not launched until later in Q1 (chairwoman Cher Wang originally stated that it would be available “by the end-of-year shopping season”). The wearable will be ‘very different from … Read more
Connected TV device shipments in the USA reached 12.4 million units in Q3’14, according to Strategy Analytics (up 36% YoY). The rise was mainly driven by demand for new consoles and digital media streamers, such as the Fire TV stick. Connected device ownership was up 28% YoY, to 168 million units. Microsoft led the installed … Read more
In a bold claim, Strategy Analytics has predicted that Netflix subscriber growth in the USA will fall 30% next year. It is part of the company’s ‘Top Ten Digital Media Predictions for 2015’. The others include a fourth year of falling TV viewing in the UK; a cloud gaming service launched by Microsoft; and Google … Read more
Brazilian regulator Anatel has said that the country is likely to exceed 20 million pay-TV subscribers this year. Anatel believes that the growth seen in October (210,000 new subscribers, boosting the total to 19.65 million) will continue, pushing past the 20 million mark by the end of December. Satellite DTH is the country’s most popular … Read more
A working group has recommended that Ukraine’s digital switchover be undertaken in four stages. The first (analogue switch-off in 10 locations, including Kiev) should be completed by 15th June 2015. Five more locations would be switched off at the end of 2015; eight more on 30th June 2016; and the final two (Lugansk and Donetsk) … Read more
The UK has the highest proportion of connected TVs, according to Ofcom. 22% of UK consumers say that they own a Smart TV, and 84% of these say that they have connected it to the internet. However, the number of households that own a TV fell by 300,000 in the surveyed time period (end-2012 to … Read more
There are now 2.3 million subscribers to Italy’s free satellite platform, Tivusat. 210,000 of these are new customers this year.
Ofcom, in the UK, is testing the possibility of interference to DTT signals when using white space devices. The regulator is trialling a system called dynamic spectrum access; white space devices could use this to access the same spectrum used for DTT signals. A technical report can be found at http://tinyurl.com/pyqtsg9.
O2 TV, an IPTV service in the Czech Republic, has announced that it has gained more than 4,000 new subscribers through October and November. 182,000 people are now customers of O2 TV.
ARCEP, the French communications regulator, is holding a two-month consultation on a review of spectrum for high-speed mobile systems. The consultation is examining the re-use of existing frequencies, with more efficient technologies, and the possibility of making new frequencies (specifically the 700MHz band) available. The consultation can be found at http://tinyurl.com/pqyhsra. Stakeholders should submit contributions … Read more
The ADB Multi-Screen software suite is now in use on Canal Digital’s Kabel-TV network in Norway. The suite is running on ADB’s Wideband Tuner, an eight-tuner hybrid cable HD DVR. Customers can use the software and Tuner to access live TV, VoD, catch-up and OTT services on up to eight devices in the home at … Read more
Uganda has abandoned its plan to switch off analogue TV services on 31st December. The country is still working towards the June 2015 ASO deadline, but according to local media, this will be difficult to achieve. Fred Otunnu, head of communications at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), estimated that 80% of the country would be … Read more
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