More Connected Tv articles

Around 350 million internet-enabled television sets are expected to be sold worldwide by 2015, according to new research by Parks Associates.

There has been plenty to discuss in the last twelve months and we have covered much of it across Newsline and at MediaTel Group events. I cannot see 2011 being any less interesting.

TV on-demand services ITV Player and 4OD will be available on Sony’s PlayStation3 games console later this week.

Jim Marshall wonders whether MediaTel’s recent TV Summit makes the case for scaling up to a full TV Conference now – the sort of TV conference that used to happen in Monte Carlo and Barcelona some years ago when everything was less complicated, more profitable and more profligate…

In 2019 – “but I may be a little optimistic there” – according to Rhys McLachlan, Mediacom’s managing partner for implementation and future investments, speaking at The Future TV Advertising Forum on Friday.

UK consumers are some of the earliest adopters of new communications technologies, according to new research by Ofcom.

informitv’s William Cooper makes an early assessment of Virgin’s new DVR: “Slick and a vast improvement”.

David Brennan on the findings from Thinkbox and Decipher’s ‘Tellyport’ research: “One stat that should make advertisers sit up, listen and get very excited is that over half of our sample claim to have gone shopping online while watching live TV”…

YouTube is set to release a new ad unit designed to give users the choice of which ads they want to watch, or not watch as the case may be.

Next year is set to be the year of connected TV, with the launch of YouView and more and more internet-enabled television sets. However, awareness of IPTV has still not reached mainstream levels, with less than half of the population understanding the latest TV proposition.