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Only a small percentage of people are actively seeking connected functionality when purchasing a new TV set, according to the panel at MediaTel Group’s Connected TV Experience.

Global online TV and video revenues will reach $21.52 billion in 2016, a massive increase from the $3.48 billion recorded in 2010, according to the Online TV and Video Forecasts report from Digital TV Research.

Television culture is shifting rapidly at the moment and with so many services in the market, it is hard to keep up – not to mention the number of terms used to describe all these new services and new technology. Here is an overview of each service…

The morning session at this year’s MediaTel Group Connected TV Experience conference was in danger of breaking out into violent agreement at times, but was all the more informative for it, as a new consensus is emerging regarding what ‘connected TV’ actually means and where the opportunities lie.

What was always seen as TV’s greatest weakness – its passive audience – is actually its greatest strength. It’s a fact of life that the predominant mindset when we are watching TV is “entertain me… but don’t make it too hard!”

Jim Marshall says we need to review exactly how connected TVs, mobile phones and iPads etc are going to impact overall viewing and then get into a serious debate about effectively starting again with a single research system measuring cross media/platforms audiences…

Netflix has decided to shelf the idea of splitting the video service into two brands – Qwikster to sell DVDs and Netflix for streaming.

According to YouTube’s blog, it has now launched its UK movie rental service.

Microsoft has announced partnership deals with BBC, LoveFilm, 4oD, VEVO and Blinkbox for the Xbox 360.

MAGNAGLOBAL has revised down its year-end 2016 forecast for DVR subscriber households to 57.5 million (48.7% of TV households), from 63.1 million in its July 2011 forecast (and compared to 41.2 million – 35.5% of TV households – as of the end of Q2 2011).