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Channel 4 have released their monthly report for October’s Video on Demand consumption, revealing a rise of one million views from September.

PVR specialists TiVO have recorded an increase of 117,000 additional subscriptions to their service at the end of Q3 2011 reaching a total of 2.04 million net subscriptions.

After a busy few weeks of activity for Netflix as they prepare to launch into the UK market, LOVEFiLM has been pro-active in a different way.

HMV has teamed up with FilmFlex Movies to announce the launch of an HMV-branded movies-on-demand service, called hmvon-demand.

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.