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Virgin Media has launched a Virgin Media TV Guide smartphone app, to allow remote recording on its new TiVo set top box.

Google and Kantar have teamed up for a multi-million pound research project looking with the aim of better understanding online and TV consumption habits in the UK.

Trawling through the tweets from this week’s Consumer Equipment Conference (#CEConference2011) in London, several interesting facts and figures were unearthed:@StrategyEye: Virgin Media CEO expects its on-demand TV player to reach 1bn views in 2011. @dgwbirch: Viewers spend more time watching VoD than ITV1, C4 and C5.@ERTonline: Smart TV has to act more like a PC… Continue reading Consumer Equipment Conference – facts and figures

MediaPost’s VidBlog takes an interesting look this week at the different options facing the US TV viewing public:“In coming years, more and more TV viewers will be doing what I have to do every night when my wife and I contemplate an evening of lean-backness. What’s it gonna cost us this time? Do I rent… Continue reading Choices faced by the US TV viewing population

ITV has now launched its ITV Player app on Apple mobile devices.It is the first UK broadcaster to launch its VoD app on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with seven days of programming now available to users.This development follows the broadcasters launch last month of the ITV Player app on Google Android.

Virgin Media are striking a deal with Spotify to offer broadband customers discounts on the music service. The deal will start in the next few months, and is the first between Spotify and a UK-based internet service provider (ISP).

A new eMarketer report estimates that 158.1 million US internet users will download or stream video at least monthly in 2011 – but this doesn’t mean they will be cutting the cord on their pay-TV service.

The BBC’s first foray into internet connected televsion apps is proving very popular with users.The BBC news app reached 17,000 downloads in its first week on the Samsung smarthub connected tv device. The app is already available on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, with over six million views globally, around half from the… Continue reading BBC news app hits 17,000 downloads in first week

According to a new report, the number of homes with digital TV will reach 1,189 million by 2016; double the number found in 2010.

The latest Display Search Quarterly Advanced Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report has found that 2011 Flat Panel TV Growth is likely be half that of 2010, with growth shifting to emerging sectors such as 3D.