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The ZMax phablet, from ZTE, is a mid-range device with a 5.7″ display (1280 x 720) and 3,400mAh battery – lasting for two days on average, the company claims. Android 4.4 runs on a quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 SoC. It will be available in late September for $250 over a two-year contract.
Digital TV Research predicts that almost 1 billion TV sets (965 million) worldwide will be connected to the internet by 2020; up from 339 million expected at the end of this year. The figure will represent 30.4% of all TVs worldwide, compared to 12.1% in 2014. Most of the new connections (160 million) will come … Read more
Poland’s DCC Labs joined the HbbTV initiative in July, it announced earlier this month. The organisation, which licenses software and provides integration and migration services for IPTV, DVB and OTT devices, was previously a member of the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF). The OIPF merged with the HbbTV Consortium in June (Display Monitor Vol 21 No … Read more
The Dutch digital TV market grew just 0.8% QoQ in Q2’14, according to Telecompaper. Subscribers totalled 6.76 million, from 6.72 million in Q1. The total market, including analogue customers, was 7.71 million, 87.7% of whom used digital TV (including 3.73 million cable subs with analogue connections). Cable was the most popular platform (55.2% share), despite … Read more
The GSMA, representing mobile operators, has called on the European Commission (EC) to hasten the switch of the UHF spectrum (470-790MHz) to mobile data traffic. The current plan is to achieve the move by 2020. Director general Anne Bouverot said that it is ‘essential’ that EU Member States have the flexibility to mvoe sooner – … Read more
Netflix has made a major push in Europe, launching its service in France and Germany. Other countries – Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland – will follow soon, and a launch in Spain and Australia is apparently on the cards for 2015.
Serbia has set a date for the start of analogue switchoff. It will begin on the 1st March 2015 and be finished by the 1st May. Free set-top boxes will be distributed to some sections of the population.
The popularity of streamed video is now almost equal to broadcast, according to Ericsson. The organisation says that, in 23 countries, 75% of people watch streamed content several times a week, compared to 77% watching broadcast. Additionally, peoples’ willingness to pay for content on any device has risen 25% since 2012, to 19%. 41% of … Read more
Aiming at the custom AV sector, TiVo has unleashed a massive DVR: the TiVo Mega, boasting 24TB of storage space. The unit can record 26,000 hours of content in SD or 4,000 in HD. It is rack-mountable, features hot-swappable drives, six tuners and an integrated transcoder to send content to mobile devices inside and outside … Read more
The UK’s Digital TV Group has published a white paper covering developments in the TV industry. They include the UltraHD format (including framerates, gamuts and dynamic range); video delivery to mobiles; spectrum management; connected TV; and DTT. The white paper is available at http://tinyurl.com/nrkb47u.
6 million US homes purchased streaming media players between Q2’13 and Q2’14, according to The NPD Group. The figure means that 17% of US internet households now have such a device. The NPD Group expects ownership to rise to 39% by the start of 2017, driven by more brands in the market (Amazon and Google … Read more
About 84% of US households take some form of pay-TV service, according to the Leichtman Research Group (LRG). While the number of subscribers has remained fairly flat since 2010, the number of households has grown – so pay-TV penetration has fallen since the country’s move to digital broadcasting. 11% of non-subscribers cited the internet or … Read more
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