Home Entertainment KPIs

Australia: the changing face of online rental | 17 Aug 11 tags › Australia is on course to become one of the most competitive digital movie markets in the world. Incumbent telco Telstra has overtaken the big international players in the space as its hybrid online/digital terrestrial TV set-top box, T-Box, is gaining momentum. At the same time, the country's largest online disc-by-mail company, Quickflix, has acquired the physical rental business of BigPond Movies from Telstra, securing the dominant position on the online DVD rental market in Australia and is gearing up for digital movies offer of its own.

Sweden: Publishers compete with broadcasters in online TV | 16 Aug 11 tags › The online TV market in Sweden is set to be worth 34.7m EURO in 2011. Much like in other major European markets, advertising-based models dominate the online TV segment, generating over 80 per cent of revenue. However, broadcasters face competition from newspaper publishers, who have loved into the online TV space after their traditional TV projects failed to gain traction.

Timeshifted TV Viewing Increases | 01 Aug 11 tags › The growth of on-demand and recording technologies such as the DVR is allowing consumers to view the content they want at a time and place which suits them. IHS Screen Digest has developed forecasts of on-demand consumption and the expected uptake of relevant timeshift-capable consumer products. We aim to take into account the differing strategies of individual players (for example, pay TV VoD operators and free-to-air broadcasters' online catch-up sites) and how these impact viewing habits. We certainly do not expect an explosion in non-linear TV viewing over the next five years, with the vast bulk of consumer viewing time still devoted to linear schedules. However, there are key territorial differences. The US is the frontrunner in the evolution of timeshifted viewing, and by 2015 we expect nearly 17 per cent of viewing to be non-linear. By contrast, Italy and Spain have seen slower development in non-linear viewing, which we expect to reach less than six per cent of consumer viewing time by 2015.

Blu-ray growth to stabilise Singapore retail video market in 2012 | 20 Feb 12 tags › IHS Screen Digest has revised its market data and forecasts for Singapore based on extensive feedback from local market sources. The increased visibility into key market metrics has also resulted in historic...

NEW DATA Movie-only, TV-only data and forecasts now available through Home Entertainment KPI service | 10 Feb 12 tags › The Home Entertainment Key Performance Indicators (KPI) service has been updated and expanded to offer increased granularity in the area of content genres and new data unique to the service. Three new levels of granularity have been added to the extensive content data pulled from across Screen Digest?s core Video, TV, and Broadband Media Intelligence services.

Paramount streamlines global home entertainment operations | 12 Oct 11 tags › Paramount Pictures has restructured its home entertainment operations on a worldwide basis from September 2011.

Anytime, anywhere entertainment | 11 Jul 11 Dan Cryan presented at IHS Screen Digest's recent breakfast seminar in Paris looking at the growth in online video, the devices that drive this growth, the pressures that the growth in data puts on ISPs and ISP strategies for addressing these economic challenges.

Cord Cutting: Lessons from Europe (NCTA/Cable Europe breakfast session) | 21 Jun 11 Guy Bisson presented at the recent NCTA cable show in Chicago, highlighting key trends in the European cable industry and benchmarking it against the US cable business. A focus on cord-cutting in Europe looked at competition from DTT and IPTV and lessons that could be transferred to the US market.