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Household take-up of digital television, via Freeview, digital satellite or cable TV, has risen to almost 85% to the end of June 2007, according to new research from Ofcom. This was up from 80.5% in the previous quarter, equating to 944,000 net household conversions since March (see UK Digital TV Penetration Exceeds 80%) . A… Continue reading Digital TV Penetration Reaches Almost 85%

As in recent years, consumer electronic (CE) products will be popular US holiday purchases in 2007, with HDTVs set to grow in popularity, reports In-Stat. The company’s latest survey yielded over 2,000 responses from North American consumers; more than 80% of these respondents have plans to purchase a CE product this holiday season, the high-tech… Continue reading HDTVs Top Consumer Purchase Wish List

Anthony Rose, chief technology officer at Kazaa/Altnet, has joined the BBC as head of digital media technology.Rose, who takes up his post today, will be responsible for delivering the next generation of BBC iPlayer, as well as realising BBC future media & technology’s plans to create a unified embedded media experience across its online properties.Prior… Continue reading BBC Recruits Kazaa Chief Technology Officer

Can anyone predict where the television market is heading? Will ITV, Channel 4 and Sky continue to reign supreme in the commercial sphere, will TV on-demand, mobile TV and television over the internet become the dominant platforms, and will advertising have to adapt to the influence of devices like personal video recorders?These are some of… Continue reading Full-Day TV Seminar To Tackle Big Industry Issues

Broadcasters have once again been urged to ‘put their house in order’, with new media secretary James Purnell using his speech at the Royal Television Society in Cambridge to tell broadcasters to move on from the problems that have plagued the industry this year.Purnell said that broadcasters had to learn the right lessons from controversies… Continue reading Media Secretary Urges Broadcasters To Learn Lessons From TV Controversies

There will be 40.4 million DVR subscriber households (34.8% of TV households) in the US by the end of 2011, according to Magna Global’s latest forecast, up from its estimate of 21.7 million (19.5% of TV households) as of the end of the second quarter of 2007. By 2011, Magna Global expects that true video-on-demand… Continue reading US DVR Subscriber Households To Increase

Devices that make up the digital home, such as digital video recorders, high-definition televisions (HDTVs), and home networks will be the consumer technologies that grow the fastest over the next five years, according to the 10th annual guide to consumers’ technology adoption and attitudes by Forrester Research. Forrester’s The State Of Consumers And Technology: Benchmark… Continue reading Consumer Technology To Grow Over Next Five Years

Andy Barnes, sales director at Channel 4, has been confirmed as a panelist at the forthcoming MediaTel Group full-day seminar on the Future Of Television.Barnes will be taking part in the morning session alongside industry luminaries Jim Marshall, chairman of Starcom Mediavest Group; Mark Howe, country director, UK sales at Google and media journalist Ray… Continue reading Channel 4’s Barnes Confirmed For Television Seminar

The UK is lagging behind the rest of Europe in its IPTV provision, with only one nationally available IPTV service compared to eight services in France, four major operations in Spain, two in Italy and two in Germany. New research from Screen Digest reveals that the UK began the year with only 54,000 IPTV customers,… Continue reading UK Failing To Exploit IPTV

It wasn’t all self-flagellation at the recent MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF), as internet entrepreneur Janus Friis explained more about his peer-to-peer television project, Joost.Given Friis’ background as the co-founder of both the file-sharing website Kazaa and the online telephony business Skype, many in the audience could have been forgiven for being wary about… Continue reading MGEITF 2007: Joost To Provide New Opportunities For Content Owners