As pointed out at MediaTel Group’s recent “Internet Comes to TV 3” breakfast event in association with Rovi, TV has always been social.

Roku, the US streaming platform, has announced plans for expansion into the UK and Canadian market, allowing consumers to purchase Roku streaming players from early 2012.

Since its launch in February, MTV has had 250,000 paid-for views of its content via its direct-to-consumer VOD service.

The MediaTel Group “Internet Comes to TV 3” event in association with Rovi yesterday provided a perspective on the connected TV market in Germany.

Rumours abound today that Samsung and possibly LG are due to team up with Google TV in 2012, with reports that LG’s will be first displayed at CES 2012 in Las Vegas in January and Samsung shortly after.

A question from the floor challenged the panel at MediaTel Group’s third “Internet Comes to TV” event in association with Rovi to consider the perceived shift in consumer usage from PVRs to catch-up services, such as iPlayer.

The speed of change in the connected TV market was highlighted at MediaTel Group’s third “Internet Comes to TV” event this morning at the Haymarket Hotel.

Speaking at the MediaTel Group’s third “Internet Comes to TV” breakfast event this morning at the Haymarket Hotel in association with Rovi, Nigel Walley, Managing Director of Decipher, said that the free TV market is becoming very crowded with Freeview, Freesat, Smart TVs and the imminent launch of YouView.

Following on the heels of the three recently announced deals by Netflix, LOVEFiLM has announced that they have signed a major film distribution agreement with Warner Bros.

Advertising in video-on-demand (VOD) programming offers specific advantages for brand marketers to effectively engage consumers, according to the Phase II study of the Advanced Advertising Media Project (AAMP) — an industry-wide research initiative to measure the impact of advertising within free VOD.