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KPN Loses DTT Subscribers

KPN’s DTT platform in the Netherlands, Digitenne, is believed to have dropped below 500,000 subscribers. In KPN’s recent results, the Digitenne figure came under the heading ‘Other TV homes’ (508,000), which also included analogue FttH customers – believed to be around 10,000. Subtracting analogue customers from the total puts Digitenne’s base under half a million.

Massive Billboard Installed in Times Square

A new digital billboard has been erected in New York’s Times Square – one of the largest and most expensive in the world. Running the length of a full city block, the billboard is part of Clear Channel Spectacolor’s portfolio at the front of the Marriott Marquis hotel. It was built by Vornado Realty Trust … Read more

Matrox Powers Munich Airport FID

The 72-screen flight information display at Munich Airport (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 27) is driven by Matrox’s M-Series graphics cards. Local system integrator Inonet used a combination of an M9148 quad-monitor and an M9188 octal-monitor graphics card in six of its Magnius-2 videowall controller systems to run the display.

No UltraHD Breakthrough Next Year

OVAB’s Digital Signage Business Climate Index in the DACH countries shows that UltraHD signage is not expected to reach mainstream adoption next year. The ‘vast majority’ of respondents expected that the technology would have a 5% – 10% market share next year; however, trends point to a single-digit range. Only a ‘very small’ proportion of … Read more

Pay-TV Climbs in Hungary

Hungarian regulator NMHH has said that there were around 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of October. More than 2 million were taking cable or IPTV services, of which 1.1 million were digital. Satellite homes stood at almost 900,000, and pay-TV platform MinDig TV Extra had just under 120,000 customers. There … Read more

Premium OTT Set for Significant Growth in Europe

Research commissioned by Vindicia and Ooyala shows that the premium OTT market is set to grow 80% over the next three years. UK consultancy firm MTM says that the UK market will grow from £110-130 million ($172-203 million) to £390 million ($611.2 million); the Dutch market will grow from €15-20 million to €190 million; and … Read more

RTL Considers Netflix Rival…

The RTL Group is considering the launch of a Netflix-like SVOD service. Co-CEO Guillaume de Posch told French newspaper La Correspondance de la Presse that he feels it is a shame that US companies, like Netflix, are able to establish themselves in Europe without local competition. In contrast with Netflix CEO Reed Hasting’s remarks about … Read more