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Spanish Pay-TV Grows With Multi-Play

Pay-TV adoption in Spain is being boosted by combination packages, which roll five services (mobile and landline phone; mobile and fixed internet; and TV) into a single product. According to Spanish regulator the CNMC, 345,000 new customers took these multi-play packages in Q1’14, for a total of 1 million subscribers. 52.2% of total pay-TV subscribers … Read more

Subscribers Rise but Revenues Fall in Europe

Revenues will fall for more than 40 European TV operators between 2013 and 2020, says Digital TV Research. Having risen from $33.7 billion in 2010 to $35.8 billion in 2013, the firm expects revenues to reach $36.2 billion by the end of the forecast period. Analogue to (often cheaper) digital conversions and greater competition (such … Read more

Viamotion Expands With HTTP Streaming

Anevia’s Viamotion Suite has been updated, and can now support media content streaming via the internet, using conventional HTTP servers. HbbTV can also be used as a secondary live source or for catch-up or video-on-demand. Viamotion has also been made more secure; the MPEG-DASH protocol enables DRM standards to be delivered using the Suite, as … Read more

Ceatec Shows What’s Big in Japan

Ceatec, which took place in Japan earlier this month, is always an interesting show to see what the Japanese companies are working on. While wearables were a focus this year, there were plenty of large displays, as well. Almost 550 companies exhibited at the show, and 150,000 visited. Omron, of Japan, used the recent Ceatec … Read more

Large Panel Shipments Rose 4.3% YoY in September

A total of 22.7 million large panels were shipped in September, from Taiwan’s four major panel manufacturers. This was just under 1% lower than the previous month but represented a year on year improvement of 4.3%. The total number of panels shipped so far this year from Taiwan was 194.9 million, a very slight increase … Read more

Microsoft Iterates on Illumiroom

It’s been a few months since we heard anything about Microsoft’s Illumiroom concept (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 4) – not since March, in fact (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 10). Illumiroom uses projectors to ‘extend’ game visuals beyond a TV and into a room. Microsoft Research has now released a video of ‘RoomAlive’, which … Read more