Interim hi-def forecasts now available online

published: 07-Aug-07
territories: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland - Western Europe
categories: New market data/forecast
Helen Davis Jayalath

European Digital Terrestrial Television: Market assessm...

The latest report from Screen Digest provides a detailed analysis of the European digital terrestrial television (DTT) market in 15 Western and 4 Eastern European markets. The report includes historical and five year forecast household and penetration data for free, pay and top-up DTT as well as penetration numbers for cable, DTH and IPTV.
published: 21-Jan-06
territories: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine - Central and Eastern Europe
Guy Bisson Chris Dziadul

DVD hardware overtakes the VCR

World DVD installed base outnumbers VCRs for first time
published: 01-Nov-07
territories: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA - Asia-Pacific, South and Central America, Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, International (exc.US/Canada), North America, Western Europe
David Scott

European video software markets

DVD spending is stablising as the decline in prices decelerates. The East European market is catching up with the West. The market for VHS cassettes has all but disappeared completely. Growth in the DVD retail market was maintained in 2006, volume sales in Europe increasing by 10 per cent from 663.5m units in 2005 to 728.3m. Once again, however, the rise in the number of units sold did not fully translate into growth in value as the average consumer price of a retail DVD sank by eight per cent year-on-year from around €14.00 in 2005 to about €12.90 in 2006.
published: 06-Aug-07
territories: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK - Central and Eastern Europe, Europe, Western Europe
Marie Bloomfield

European TV homes get HD-ready

At end 2006, 12.8m households were equipped with HD-ready televisions-an average eight per cent penetration of TV homes. We expect the number of HD-ready households to grow to 94m at end 2011 (56 per cent of TV households). Of the current 12.8m HD-ready homes, we estimate that only 520,000 were already viewing HD-quality broadcasts at the end of 2006, mostly from pay TV (390,000). So about 12m households have an HDready set but are not viewing HD pictures.
published: 15-May-07
territories: Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK - Europe, European Union, Nordic Region, Western Europe
Vincent Létang

On-demand TV services in Europe

The rapid surge of IPTV is driving the growth in pay-per-view services
published: 19-Feb-07
territories: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK - Europe, Western Europe
Lingjie Wang

World video turns corner

World consumer spending on buying and renting video software fell for the first time in eight years in 2005. Consumers worldwide spent $51.8bn on video software in 2005 - down more than six percent on the amount spent in 2004. DVD software at a new high in 2005 - up five per cent compared with the previous year to $48.1bn - was insufficient to compensate for a 62 per cent fall to $3.4bn in VHS spending. In 2004 the digital format posted worldwide growth of 40 per cent, and retail sales of 1.9bn units. In 2005, growth slowed to 11 per cent in volume, generating retail sales of 2.1bn units.
published: 01-Nov-06
territories: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea. Rep [S], Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, USA - Asia-Pacific, South and Central America, Central and Eastern Europe, Regional Totals, Western Europe
David Scott

European video software markets

DVD volume sales continue to climb but spending fell in 2005. Retail DVD sales continued to grow in 2005 albeit at a slower rate than in previous years. Volume sales of DVD increased by 15 per cent to 657m units, accounting for 94 per cent of total European video sales. However, the gain in volume sales failed to be translated into spending as the average price of a retail DVD in Europe declined by around 13 per cent in 2005.
published: 11-Aug-06
territories: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK - Central and Eastern Europe
Helen Davis Jayalath Marie Bloomfield

Next-generation console games

Developers and publishers are lining up for fierce competition between the next generation of games consoles - Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution. We analyse the runners and riders and the strategies likely to be followed.
published: 01-Mar-06
territories: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA - Central and Eastern Europe
Ed Barton