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Online video could be key factor as ITV’s new chief ponders pay TV
A week after ITV announced that former Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier would be its new chief executive – and with variations on the “now he’s got the post, can he deliver?” joke beginning to run thin – ideas about what Crozier needs to do to turn around the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster are starting to be fine-tuned.
Sky 3D: The verdict
Last weekend, I donned a pair of 3D glasses and settled down to watch the world’s first live broadcast of a sports event in 3D.
With around a hundred other guests invited by BSkyB to a central London pub we watched the Arsenal vs Manchester United Premier League match played out in full 3D. And how did it look? Read more »
Over-the-top TV needs fine-tuning to truly court couch potatoes
Early adopters put up with a lot. They risked crippling back injuries to tote the first portable laptop computers. They paid over the odds for broadband for the pleasure of being “always on,” albeit at 512Kbps. They overlooked the many failings of numerous generations of smartphones to access the Internet on the move. So it should come as no surprise that the latest trend to sweep the telecoms and media markets should prove to be a bit of a disappointment. Read more »
The power of high-definition suggestion
Pay-TV operators and broadcasters have long been concerned that far too many consumers do not realise that there is more to receiving high-definition television programmes than simply buying an HD-capable television set.
After all, it is a tough job convincing people to pay for HDTV subscriptions if they have not noticed that they are missing out in the first place. Read more »
Download the Executive Summary from our Eastern European TV report
The more liberal markets in Eastern Europe are changing the face of broadcasting in the region, which is opening up new opportunities for broadcasters, investors, content providers and technology suppliers. Read more »
Download the Executive Summary from our Middle East and Africa TV report
By the end of 2014, the Middle East and North Africa will have 50 million multichannnel TV homes, while Sub-Sahara Africa will have 800 million TV households. For local and international players, both regions offer great growth and profit potential. Read more »
Informa Telecoms & Media launches the NEW Intelligence Centre
We are extremely pleased to unveil the new Intelligence Centre, which includes enhancements to the structure of our content, the search functionality and the introduction of over 2500 dedicated company and country overviews. Read more »
Once Carter goes, whither Digital Britain?
Digital Britain: 245 pages of “outcomes, proposals, roadmaps and recommendations” on the UK’s digital future. On top of that, there’s the promise of a dozen further consultations and new non-governmental bodies.
Despite all this bureaucracy, communications minister Stephen Carter’s report has mapped out a clear vision of Britain’s digital future.
European Commission sees sense on mobile-TV ‘tax’
I have almost lost count of how many stories and comment pieces of the “mobile TV suffers yet another blow” variety I have written over the last months. So it is refreshing finally to be able to write about some good news amid all the DVB-H debris and reports of DMB launches without phones.
As we report in New Media Markets this week, the European Commission’s tax directorate has done the sensible thing and abandoned proposals to reclassify high-end mobile phones that enable reception of television signals – a move that would have triggered a very recession-unfriendly import duty of up to 14%.
Global IPTV subscriptions exceed 20 million
According to research completed ahead of the IPTV World Forum, which opens at Olympia, London on Wednesday, Informa Telecoms & Media announces that global IPTV subscriptions reached the 20 million mark at the end of 2008. The 90 networks which have disclosed numbers to Informa Telecoms & Media account for 19.98 million subscriptions, and estimates for a further 20 networks take the total to 20.12 million. IPTV is now active in nearly 60 countries.
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