Net US subscriber additions for pay-TV operators fell by nearly 350,000 in Q2 2012, the largest subscriber drop in history, as weakening economic conditions and strengthening competition from over-the-top (OTT) players like Netflix continue to work against cable operators and even against the satellite segment, according to recent research from IHS Screen Digest.
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During the Olympic games, half of searches and video streams have come from mobiles and tablets, according to Google.
The UK has passed its high-speed broadband milestone, with two million subscribers at the beginning of July, according to Point Topic.
Channel 4’s new viewer engagement strategy has signed up five million people, up from two million at the end of 2011.
According to Reuters, US pay TV subscriptions have dropped by more than 400,000 this year. In Q2, Time Warner Cable saw video subscriptions fall by 169,000; Comcast 176,000, Dish 10,000 and DirecTV 52,000.
Market research firm Infonetics Research released excerpts from 2 recent video reports, Video-on-Demand (VOD) and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscribers, which tracks equipment sold to telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video providers, and Set-Top Boxes and Subscribers, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and hybrid set-top boxes (STBs) and over-the-top (OTT) media servers.“2012 will be… Continue reading Video infrastructure markets growing despite challenges – big year for multi-screen TV
