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Digital TV Hits 1 Billion

by Tom Allen

The digital TV market grew by about 455 million homes between 2010 and 2014, according to Digital TV Research. The increase means that there are now more than 1 billion digital TV households across …

IPTV Rises Quickly in Spain

by Tom Allen

The Spanish pay-TV regulator, CNMC, says that the market in Spain reached 5.1 million subscribers at the end of last year – with 345,000 new customers in Q4. 325,000 of these were IPTV subscribers. …

Anacom, the Portugese regulator, has said that there were 3.4 million pay-TV subscribers in the country at the end of Q1’15. The figure represents growth of 194,000 users YoY. 40.2% of the total were …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Portugal| Vol 22 - Issue 24

Thomson Enables UltraHD in Italy

by Tom Allen

Thomson Video Networks has announced that Chili, the Italian content provider, is using the ViBE VS7000 multi-screen and HEVC encoding platform. The VS7000 is being used to deliver UltraHD content through Chili’s pay-TV platform.

US Pay-TV Approaches Maturity

by Tom Allen

IHS’ data regarding the US pay-TV market shows that cable operators cut their subscriber losses in Q1’15, while IPTV and satellite growth slowed. Cable companies lost 132,900 subscribers QoQ in Q1. Erik Brannon, TV …

Tags:IHS DisplaySearch| Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Top Pay-TV Providers End Subscriber Losses

by Tom Allen

Informitiv’s Multiscreen Index shows that the top 10 pay-TV providers in the USA gained a total of 54,800 digital subscribers in Q1. Six of the services reported a net increase: Verizon (up 90,000); AT&T …

OTT STBs Overtake IPTV – But Not For Long

by Tom Allen

Retail shipments of OTT set-top boxes (STBs) will overtake IPTV STB shipments from pay-TV operators this year, says IHS. 31 million retail OTT units will be shipped in 2015, compared to 30 million IPTV …

Spain Disillusioned With Pay-TV

by Tom Allen

The Spanish Observatory of Telecommunications has said that pay-TV ARPUs fell 6.3% YoY in 2014, from €30 to €25.60. In Q4, households spent €253 million on pay-TV – down 38.6% from Q4’13’s €412. Pay-TV …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 22 - Issue 19

MENA Pay-TV Outstrips Mature Markets

by Tom Allen

Pay-TV in the MENA region grew substantially in 2014, according to IHS; revenues jumped from €702 million in 2013 to €873 million. While free satellite TV was the dominant reception method, primary pay-TV households …

Tags:IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Pay TV| Vol 22 - Issue 18

European IPTV to Pass Satellite in 2015

by Tom Allen

Digital TV Research says that the impact of cord-cutting will be ‘minimal’ in Western Europe. Despite market maturity, pay-TV penetration is expected to grow from 56.7% at end-2014 to 60.4% in 2020. Subscribers will …

Spanish Pay-TV Market Grows

by Tom Allen

Spain had more than five million pay-TV subscribers at the end of 2014, up 31.6% from the 3.8 million posted in 2013, according to regulator CNMC. Telefonica was the market leader, with almost 1.9 …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Market Data| Pay TV| Spain| Vol 22 - Issue 16

Top TV Providers Add 5.1 Million Subs in Q4

by Tom Allen

Informitv’s Multiscreen Index, of 100 leading pay-TV providers worldwide, shows that these services grew by more than 5.1 million subscribers in Q4’14 (up 1.42%). The top 10 services added more than 5.3 million throughout …