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Home Entertainment Viewing Keeps Growing

by Andy Marken

Just in case you don’t know it, I live in Silicon Valley and have worked in the technology industry like forever. It’s good because you get to see new things born and grow rapidly …

Tags:Netflix| OTT Video| Pay TV| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video

U.S. pay TV penetration to fall below 50% in 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DigitalTVResearch forecast that traditional pay TV penetration in the US will slip below 50% of TV households in 2026 – down from 91% in 2010 and down from 60% in 2021. …

Tags:Pay TV| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

The M&E Industry is Stronger, Healthier Together

by Andy Marken

Keeping a home entertainment budget under control today as the marketplace “matures” is a lot like keeping yourself in shape as you mature. Suddenly it’s OMG! “I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, ever met someone …

Tags:AVOD| Broadcast| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Pay TV| Streaming Video| SVOD

Watching Sports Is Fun … and Game/Industry Changing

by Andy Marken

I don’t quite get why people are so wild about watching sports. I just know they have since before the Roman Empire. Back then people would sit in the bleachers and cheer as two …

Tags:Pay TV| Sports and Stadiums| Streaming Video| TV Viewing

TV as an App – With Cloud Support

by Bob Raikes

Back at CES in 2010, I met in a hotel suite with a firm that had a new approach to TV that struck me as significant, useful and important. A friend had gone to …

Tags:AVOD| Cloud TV| Pay TV| STBs| Streaming Video| SVOD

Research: 71% US homes still pay-TV subs

by Bob Raikes

What They Say US analyst Leichtman Research Group said that 71% of US TV households have some form of pay TV service – down from 82% in 2016, 87% in 2011, and 86% in …

Tags:Pay TV| USA

Links Week Ending 29th October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Sixteen-nine’s Dave Haynes has a look a …

Tags:Apple| Cable| Infocomm 2021| iPhone| Pay TV| Samsung| sharp| Smartphones| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Vewd Introduces World’s First SaaS-based Operator TV with Vestel

by Artem Alekseenko

Vewd, the leading provider of OTT software solutions, together with Vestel, Europe’s largest TV manufacturer, introduced the Vewd Operator TV, a fully-featured Smart TV with a built-in, content-enriched Pay TV experience. Now, Pay TV …

Tags:OTT Video| Pay TV| Smart TV| Vestel

Vewd Introduces World’s First SaaS-based Operator TV with Vestel

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Vewd and Vestel announced a deal to develop an SaaS-based TV for operators. Vewd’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model is intended to align Operator TV with Pay TV subscription models and revenue, …

Tags:Cloud TV| Pay TV| Streaming Video| Vestel

Links 26th August 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from this week. I usually leave it until Friday, but there are a lot …

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