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Plans are underway to enable digital terrestrial TV broadcasts to be delivered to mobile phones, the DVB World 2003 conference heard in Dublin recently. DVB-X will apparently enable the transmission of music, video clips and other multimedia content to a large audience via mobile handsets. It is already being seen as a cheaper and more… Continue reading DTT Coming To Mobile Phones Soon

The market for interactive sports coverage is set to undergo massive expansion in coming years and new revenue streams will generate almost $3 billion worldwide by 2008, according to a new report issued by Screen Digest. Sport was, until recently, regarded as an unstoppable bandwagon and media companies showed a particular inclination to hop on… Continue reading Sport Sees Salvation In Interactive TV

The BBC’s decision to pull out of the conditional access satellite carriage agreement that it has held with BSkyB for the last five years (see BBC Ends £85m Conditional Access Contract With BSkyB) is unlikely to have any material effect on Sky, according to media analysts. The BBC said that it will save £85 million… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: BBC’s Exit From Carriage Deal Will Not Hurt Sky

Revenues from US video on-demand (VOD) services will grow from $293 million in 2003 to $1.4 billion in 2007, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. The Impact Of On-Demand Content On Cable Revenues In The US report shows that in addition subscription VOD – dubbed SVOD – will reach $800 million in 2007,… Continue reading Subscriptions Key To Video On-Demand, Says Jupiter

When they were first launched on the market, there were widspread fears personal video recorders (PVRs) could sound the death knell for TV advertising (see Insight Analysis: Should Advertisers Fear Digital Video Recorders?). In truth, the reality has failed to live up to the hype but there are emerging signs that consumers are taking to… Continue reading PVR Uptake Gives Ad Industry Food For Thought

Western European satellite and cable television subscriber figures in the table below show Germany’s towering lead over all other countries in the region, with practically twice as many subscribers to each platform as its closest rival. Germany currently has 17.9 million cable TV customers, whilst the next-largest market, in the Netherlands, commands just 6.3 million,… Continue reading Western European Cable And Satellite Subscriber Figures

Despite heavy promotion by broadcasters and cable companies, interactive television (iTV) is yet to have the impact envisaged and will generate no more than â‚Ź18 billion across Europe by 2007, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The UK currently leads the way with regard to interactive TV but consumers and advertisers remain unconvinced… Continue reading Limited Growth Forecast For iDTV

TiVo, the personal video recorder (PVR) company, says that its subscriber base has grown by 64% in the space of twelve months and is hoping to attract up to 600,000 new subscribers in the next year. Doubts have been raised about the potential of digital video recorders in the US (see DVRs Fail To Live… Continue reading TiVo Gives A Shot In The Arm To PVR Market

January brought relatively good news to the UK terrestrial TV market, which saw revenue increase by 0.4% year on year. Gains were experienced at all of the main commercial channels, with the exception of ITV, which saw revenue slip by 2.4% year on year to £115 million. Channel Five, which recently appointed Jane Lighting as… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – January 2003

Digital television will reach 80 million European households by the end of 2007, equivalent to more than half of the overall TV market, according to a new study from Datamonitor. The report, entitled Digital and Interactive TV Markets: Service development and uptake to 2007, examined the progress made by cable, satellite and digital terrestrial platforms… Continue reading DTV In Half Of European Homes By 2007, Says Report