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Speaking at MediaTel Group’s Media Playground event, Nigel Walley, MD of Decipher, said that people want to buy the “biggest, flattest, shiniest TV” possible that will fit next to the fireplace, and that they’re not looking necessarily for connected capabilities.

Speaking at MediaTel Group’s Media Playground event, Stephen Poole, multi-platform group sales controller at ITV, said the broadcaster is looking to add ITV Player on to smart and connected TVs.

Panellists at MediaTel Group’s Media Playground event at RBS were in agreement that there are exciting new opportunities for the TV advertising marketplace but continued concerns over measurement.

Jeff Siegel, senior vice president, Worldwide Advertising, Rovi Corporation, says broadcasters, content owners, device manufacturers and advertisers will be paying close attention to how consumers are viewing, interacting and engaging with the broadcast and live streams of the Games as it will serve as a gauge to the industry for what the winning model is for the ecosystem moving forward…

TiVo and PayPal have announced at the TV of Tomorrow Show 2012 in San Francisco that they have teamed up to provide TiVo users with the ability to purchase products featured in interactive advertisements on the TiVo user interface through PayPal.

comScore has released new insights on the U.S. tablet market from comScore TabLens, its forthcoming monthly syndicated service providing insights into tablet ownership and usage.

Voddler, a Sweden-based online video service, has launched a social TV service for Nokia Lumia handset owners that enables them to synchronise films they are watching with their friends.

BT Vision customers can already watch the pick of the programming from NGC on demand, but when the channels launch later this year, they will be able to watch both channels live.

MediaTel Group’s annual Media Playground event on Thursday will see four excellent panels debate opportunities and strategies across screen, data, social and mobile.

Bundles of numbers (see report link below for detail) and some interesting thoughts on how the media sector might shape up and evolve in the annual PwC report.