The Latest IPTV and OTT Trends

It has been awhile that we have posted anything relevant on IPTV.  Since 2009-2010, we saw this trend coming.  


Dawn of Ultrafast Broadband Era
Live Trading News
G.fast is set to be very important, particularly as service providers look to provide services such as IPTV at 500 to 1000 Mbps. As G.fast moves forward, the ...

Parks Associates forecasts 4K future
IPTV News
New research from Parks Associates finds more than 46 million households worldwide will subscribe to a 4K UHD pay-TV service by 2018. Pay-TV providers will ...

Gartner: Dominance of pay-TV masks VoD growth
Advanced Television
It is, and will be, complementary to traditional pay-TV services such as cable TV, satellite TV or IPTV. Yet, consumers will increasingly spend less in additional ...

Growth of Pay TV Subscribers and Channels Propels the Global Pay ...
Newswire Today (press release)
The demand for pay TV video encoders is on the rise, with cable, Internet protocol TV (IPTV) and satellite companies requiring these products to get consumers ...


Global pay TV market to generate USD 268 bln in 2014
Telecompaper (subscription)
The IPTV market share grew over 1 percentage point year-over-year. Competition in the global pay TV market is growing with the rapid evolution of IPTV and ...


Set-top box market hits $4.8 billion 2Q14; market seeing "mixed ...
MarketWatch
The report also tracks telco IPTV and cable and satellite video subscribers. Vendors tracked: ADB, Apple, Arris, Changhong, Cisco, Coship, DVN, Echostar, ...


Spain: Multi-play packages lead pay-TV growth
Advanced Television
Most of Spaniards watch TV through DTT, 82.7 per cent, followed by cable and IPTV with 13.2 per cent and satellite with 4.1 per cent. Spaniards spent an ...

Streaming devices proliferate in fiber broadband homes, study says
FierceOnlineVideo
While Calix, a unified access services provider, developed the whitepaper to discuss options for IPTV providers such as gateways, the plethora of connected ...

Half of Brits ditching TV guide for time-shifted telly
IPTV News
The latest study and statistics from Virgin Media have revealed technology is transforming the way the nation watches television. Data from over 2.3 million ...

Measuring virtual set-top box success by service velocity & sub growth
IPTV News
Set-top box virtualization should increase service velocity and subscriber reach for pay-TV operators while simultaneously reducing capex and opex, according ...


Italy: mobile broadband drives telecom market growth as manda ...
WhaTech
The segment is also suffering from the near-nonexistence of a triple-play market, given the lack of IPTV offerings and the dominance in pay-TV of DTH player Sky ...

Content is king as telco prepares push into internet television
The Australian
As part of its IPTV refresh, Mr Teoh said TPG would invest in “popular television content”, including movies and possibly big-ticket sports events. The move is an ...

Almost half US households have connected console
IPTV News
46% of US broadband households have a game console connected to the Internet and over one-quarter (28%) use the connected gaming console as their ...


Ixonos: “There hasn't been innovation in TV ads for 50 years”
IPTV News
IP&TV News: How significant do you think the present is to the evolution and advertising and why? Roope Suomalainen: Advertising is globally a huge business: ...

What content shortage? Most top movies ARE available online
IPTV News
The vast majority of the most popular films and television shows are legally available online for US audiences, according to a new study from KPMG.

World Consumer Electronics Market 2014 - 2018 Research Report
PR Newswire UK (press release)
Average annual growth of 6.8% between 2014 and 2018 is forecast for the IPTV STB sector. The TVs market (Televisions) is on the road to UHD and OLED with ...

Set-top viewers to monitor trends
The Australian
The company, which collects data from the 35,000 subscriber households to its FetchTV IPTV product, will rank the programs people are viewing on its set-top ...

Cloud Computing Stocks; Cloud services market is expected to grow ...
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
... transformative multi-screen video services through an open, cloud-based, intelligent software platform trusted by cable, IPTV and mobile operators globally.

Study offers 'anatomy of the spoiler'
IPTV News
The rise of OTT has been inevitably accompanied with the rise of the spoiler. Nowadays, people increasingly get into TV series in their own time, and ...

55% of US broadband households subscribe to OTT service
IPTV News
Fifty-five percent of US broadband households subscribe to an OTT video service, opening up new opportunities for cloud solutions, according to Parks ...

Jeff Kagan: Can Cable TV Survive?
Equities.com
Then the large telephone companies jumped in with their IPTV services. This was the first type of service that used the new technology and the Internet to ...