Tag Archives: STB
Anga Cable 2010
I found myself with a spare day in the week due to an interesting approach to public holidays by the Netherlands. With this I decided to take a day trip over to Cologne to take in a show that previously I had always found myself unable to attend – Anga 2010. This show is organised [...]
Apple Spreading out of its’ Orchard?
There is some speculation based on the flimsiest of a job posting (Apple To Bring iPhone OS To New Gadgets) that Apple could be looking to expand beyond the iPad device, as that being a first step beyond the phone and handheld information device world – perhaps into the mainstream TV world. Apple have had [...]
Cooling of the IPTV Set-Top Market
The cooling of the IPTV set-top market as reported by Broadband TV News is an interesting development. IPTV set-top market is ‘cooling down’ : Broadband TV News. Much of the growth identified in the report was down to market launches which mop up the early adopters very easily. However, we have not seen the organic [...]
Digital Transition Approaches
Quite famously, the US chose the big bang approach to the removal of Analogue Terrestrial transmission and its replacement with Digital, something completely different to the UK approach which takes place over a four year period. This was scheduled for February 17th 2009 several years ago, and it is rapidly approaching. However there is now [...]
DVR Success in the UK
The recent Ofcom report which stated that UK viewers are, as a proportion, more likely to own a DVR/PVR, was really promising, showing that 30% of viewers have one, as reported by InformITV and others. However the numbers have been questioned by InformITV based on a quick count of the numbers across each platform, estimating [...]
Conclusions about the UK STB market
As reported through the DTG website, GfK have analysed the growth in the sale of STBs in the UK. I have access only to the summary on the DTG site, but there is one glitch with the analysis as reported – it supposes that there will be a further growth in the low cost STB [...]