Tag Archives: UK
Digital Transition Problems
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Digital Transition approach being followed in the UK and in the US. In summary, it was that neither the UK or the US had the right approach as the US were doing it too quickly and the UK too slow. Since then a number of events [...]
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 [...]
Progress to Free content… as in removal of limits
It has been over ten years since @Entertainment launched satellite TV services into Poland from Kent in the UK (in-cable launch 5th June 1998 and as DTH on 18th September 1998). Is it true that this country (after entrance to the EU) is finally liberalising the TV market?
HDTV Market Penetration in the UK – Commentary
Floating around a variety of homes whilst on a family vacation has revealed that (from a small sample of 6 homes) that each home had a brand spanking new HDTV. There was not a sign of the old CRT. The most interesting thing though is that only one of these homes made use of true [...]