Set-top boxes are set to reach Asian consumers at an ever-increasing rate, according to new STB market data published by ABI Research.
Overall STB shipments in the region, including those for cable, DBS, IPTV, and DTT television services, will approach 111 million in 2014, the culmination of a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in excess [...]
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12% Growth in Asia-Pacific Set-Top Box Shipments By 2014
Digisoft.tv Ltd and Wotone Group have joined forced to offer an end to end service delivery solution to IPTV, Cable and Hybrid operators in the Chinese market.
The partnership will see Wotone offer a solution incorporating Digisoft’s DigiHost Service Delivery Platform and Java Based Middleware.
This will allow service providers to launch high definition services such as [...]
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Wotone and Digisoft.tv in China IPTV partnership
Market
research firm Infonetics Research released its second quarter (2Q09) IPTV,
Cable, and Satellite Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report.
ANALYST NOTE
“Slow but steady IPTV and cable video subscriber growth in North America, Europe,
and Asia, led by AT&T, Verizon, Belgacom, Swisscom, Telus, and KPN, helped boost
the equipment market in the second quarter, particularly IP set-top boxes, middleware,
and video content security software. Another significant development this quarter
was the US Court of Appeals strike-down of the FCC rule limiting cable video providers
from owning more than 30% of the video subscription market. This could pave the way
for Comcast to pass the 30% threshold via a merger or acquisition. In a year where
growth is hard to come by and corporate valuations are low, we think there could be
significant M&A activity in North America in the second half of 2009,” predicts
Jeff Heynen, Infonetics Research’s directing analyst for broadband and video.
IPTV, CABLE VIDEO, AND SATELLITE VIDEO MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
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Report: IPTV and Cable Video Equipment up 15% in 2Q09
The IMS
Research study IPTV: A Global Market Analysis reveals that 68% of total worldwide
IP STB shipments in 2008 were deployed into both the Western European and the North
American regions. Globally, IMS Research forecasts that IP STBs will grow at a CAGR
of 16% through 2014.
Rebecca Kurlak, research analyst and author of the study, states, “A few of the prime
markets for IP STBs will continue to be in the US, France, Italy, Spain, and China.
The US alone will experience a 42% increase in subscriber uptake by the end of 2009,
mainly driven by AT&T’s U-Verse service. US Tier 2 & Tier 3 telcos are expected to
contribute almost 16% to total subscriber growth by the end of the year.”
Kurlak continues, “Not only will the market see uptake of IP STBs, but will see an
increasing amount of hybrid IP+DTT STBs. France, Italy, and Spain are forecast to
comprise 65% of Western Europe’s IP+DTT shipments by 2014. France Telecom, Telecom
Italia, and Telefonica are using DTT to further complement their service offerings.”
Additionally she notes, “China continues to be the gold mine that every supplier wants
to get their hands on. Both China Telecom and China Unicom are growing rapidly, with
close to a 33% subscriber uptake by the end of 2009. In terms of IPTV households,
we are expecting a CAGR growth of 25%.”
In addition to television household forecasts (split by picture quality and DVR functionality),
the study provides detailed analysis of IP and IP+DTT STB shipments and revenues for
three major global regions and three sub-regions, with further analysis on 64 individual
countries. Two new features of the report include forecasts for IPTV Households by
Telco Tier and segmentation of IP STB Shipments by MPEG-2 vs. MPEG-4 AVC compressions.
IMS Research is the first to incorporate these segmentations in their reporting.
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Report: MPEG-2 Maintains Steady Growth on the IPTV Platform
Amino has
partnered with beeTV to develop and
deliver a recommendation-based personalised TV experience, via Amino’s award-winning
range of STBs. The PCC uses a set of proprietary contextual recommendation algorithms
that identify the viewers’ habits, taste, viewing history, personal viewing context
and up-to-date general trends. The PCC, which resides on the STB, gathers suitable
recommendations from all content sources including broadcast TV, subscription TV,
VoD, PVR/Catch-up and pushes it to each individual viewer as an entertaining, personalised
channel that leverages on the richness and impact of visual television images. The
solution requires no “catalogue” textual description, no channel surfing nor red and
green buttons.
The PCC, a white label interface, enables providers to increase VoD consumption and
improve customer acquisition and retention. The PCC’s powerful management tools allow
providers to initiate and manage content-marketing activities and proactively insert
their business logic.
It also maximises brand extension across multiple platforms and creates potential
revenue streams from targeted advertising by gathering and utilising valuable collected
customer marketing data.
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Amino and beeTV Partner for a Personalised TV Experience
