Motorola agrees global reseller deal with Widevine

published: 07-May-08
territories: USA - North America, World
categories: Strategy change, Technology deal, Marketing deal
Daniel Simmons

NXP to acquire Conextant's set-top box business

published: 01-May-08
territories: Netherlands, USA - Europe, North America, World
categories: Merger/takeover/investment deal, Technology deal
Daniel Simmons

published: 24-Apr-08
territories: USA - North America
categories: Technology deal
Daniel Simmons

published: 15-Apr-08
territories: Germany - Western Europe
categories: Technology deal
Tom Morrod

NDS looks to take substatial market share in Germany

published: 02-Apr-08
territories: Germany - Western Europe
categories: Technology deal
Tom Morrod

published: 02-Apr-08
territories: USA, France - North America, Western Europe
categories: Merger/takeover/investment deal, Technology deal, Technical development
Tom Morrod

published: 02-Apr-08
territories: USA - North America
categories: Technology deal, Technical development
Daniel Simmons

published: 02-Apr-08
territories: USA - North America
categories: Technology deal
Tom Morrod Daniel Simmons

published: 02-Apr-08
territories: USA - North America
categories: Technology deal
Tom Morrod

published: 10-Mar-08
territories: Israel, France - Europe
categories: Merger/takeover/investment deal, Technology deal
Richard Broughton

published: 29-Nov-07
territories: Germany, USA - North America, Western Europe, World
categories: Strategy change, Technology deal, Technical development
Tom Morrod Daniel Simmons

published: 31-Jul-07
territories: UK
categories: Strategy change
Guy Bisson

published: 15-Mar-07
territories: France
categories: Regulatory/legal development
Vincent Létang

High-Definition Set-top Boxes and Chipsets: The Europea...

This report analyses the impact of the roll-out of high-definition TV services across Europe on the set-top box and chipsets business to 2010. The report includes latest forecasts for HD uptake in 17 key European territories; market size and forecasts for set-top boxes for all TV platforms, for other hi-def devices including games consoles and disc players; and market size and forecasts for the MPEG-4 decoding chipsets used in these devices. It includes an appraisal of the HD and MPEG-4 strategies of all the main suppliers of set-top boxes and MPEG-4 chipsets.
published: 11-Apr-07
Robert Ambrose Vincent Létang

FCC bonanza in spectrum auction

Contenders have bid $20bn for frequencies released bythe forthcoming analogue switch-off. Verizon bid the most money, AT&T secured the most licences
published: 23-Apr-08
territories: USA - North America
Ronan de Renesse

Cable/satellite PVRs sell on price

Marketing and consumer awareness have little effect on initial uptake of PVRs
published: 23-Apr-08
territories: Germany, UK, USA - Nordic Region, North America, Western Europe
Richard Broughton

Pay TV set-top box market dynamics

The global market for digital set-top boxes for pay TV was 90m units in 2007. This will increase to almost 100m in 2008. Box requirements are developing rapidly. As component prices fall, pay TV operators are able to afford increasing capability.
published: 23-Apr-08

UK leads West European PVR drive

Cable is left behind as IPTV and satellite race ahead
published: 23-Jan-08
territories: France, Germany, UK - Western Europe
Richard Broughton

Free-to-air mobile TV market grows

More than 15m people in Asia subscribe to free-to-air mobile TV services
published: 01-Nov-07
territories: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA - World
Ronan de Renesse

Shift in IPTV access technology

ADSL2+ is the most common access technology for internet protocol television, currently providing service to 82 per cent of customers
published: 14-Sep-07
Richard Broughton

European IPTV broaches MPEG-4

Demand for services like high definition television is driving the switch to the more expensive but futureproof encoding format
published: 06-Aug-07
Richard Broughton

Conditional access in Europe

NDS currently leads with almost half the market, a sign of the extent to which dominant players are emerging in a consolidating sector
published: 12-Jun-07
Richard Broughton

Broadcasting on the Internet

A listing of the online video sites operated by broadcasters or which are displaying broadcast content.
published: 15-May-07
Tim Westcott

DTT take-up accelerates in Europe

Continent-wide penetration has reached 12 per cent, with UK and Finland leading the way and laggardly France and Spain now catching up
published: 15-May-07
Tim Westcott