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Links Week Ending 15th July 2022

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 end of this week. U.S. TV Homes Using a Smart TV to …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| LED| Lenovo| Litigation| Operating Systems| Outdoor Displays| PlayStation| Samsung| sony| STBs| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

Catching Up on Virtual Production and OTT vs Linear TV

by Bob Raikes

Once again I’m going to quote the old London stockbroker saying of ‘Sell in May and Go Away’ – the phrase they would use to indicate that not much would happen in the dog …

Tags:Content Creation| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| Virtual Sets

Samba TV’s Q4’21 State of Viewership Report is Here!

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samba TV released three reports on the ‘State of Viewership’ in TV in the US, the UK and Germany and in Australia. The reports look at the reach and impressions of …

Tags:Europe| Market Data| Streaming Video| TV Viewing| USA

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

Cord Cutting in 2021. Antennas Selling Well

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol newsletter posted an article that looked at developments in streaming this year and categorised 2021 as the ‘post-cable’ year. One of the interesting snippets was that the article said that …

Tags:Antennas| Cable Cutting (cord cutting)| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing| USA

AR Boosts the Football Experience

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IBC sent out a video from AR³ that highlighted with what the firm could do to add data to soccer to improve the user experience. What We Think I’m a regular …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Sports and Stadiums| TV Viewing

Sport on TV – Again – the Technology Matters

by Bob Raikes

I’m following up Andy Marken’s article yesterday (Watching Sports Is Fun and Game/Industry Changing) on sport and its importance for Pay TV and for TV viewing in general and the development of streaming. Unlike …

Tags:Streaming Video| TV Viewing

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

Behind the Screens: The Emerging Viewership Landscape

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has been building a business, run by Samsung Ads, to develop and exploit the huge installed base of Samsung SmartTVs and the firm has published, through DTV Europe, an interesting analysis of how …

Tags:AVOD| Europe| North America| Samsung| Streaming Video| SVOD| TV Viewing

Omdia Updates on Streaming and HbbTV

by Bob Raikes

HbbTV held its 9th Symposium and Awards event in Paris – a mixture of the live and virtual. We picked up on the live stream and were interested to hear what Paul Gray, Director …

Tags:Europe| Operating Systems| OTT Video| Smart TV| Streaming Video| TV Viewing

Research: Italians families have 5 screens

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advance Television reported data from a survey by Auditel-Censis in Italy of over 20K homes that highlighted that in Italy there are around 14.5 million homes (46.6%) with SmartTVs, although only …

Tags:Italy| TV Viewing

Links Week Commencing 8th November 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 first part of this week. DSCC Raises Display Equipment Spending Forecast on …

Tags:Dell| Desktop Monitors| Market Data| Nintendo Consoles| Notebooks| Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| TV Viewing| USA