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4K TV shipments to exceed 30 million units in 2015
Jul 29, 2015 – According to Futuresource Consulting, 4K TV shipments are expected to grow by 147% in 2015, despite an overall 2% fall in TV sales. Global TV sales rose in 2014 by 3% to reach 235 million units, with trade value up to $94 billion.
News categories: Futuresource Consulting, Jack Wetherill, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV, Worldwide

BSkyB adds 113,000 TV subscribers in 2Q 2015
Jul 29, 2015 – SKY plc has announced results for the twelve months ended 30 June 2015. In the UK and Ireland quarterly TV growth increased by 49% to 113,000. Sky confirmed that it is planning to deploy a European-wide set-top box.
News categories: Sky plc, Austria, Digital TV, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

100,000 IPTV customers for Mexico's Axtel
Jul 28, 2015 – Axtel has announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. AXTEL launched its pay-television service, AXTEL TV, in 2013, and as of June 30, 2015, video subscribers reached 100 thousand compared to 80 thousand a year ago.
News categories: Axtel, IPTV, Mexico, Results, Subscribers

One third of cable subscribers to be passed by DOCSIS 3.1 by April 2017
Jul 28, 2015 – IHS (NYSE: IHS) conducted in-depth interviews with cable operators across the globe that collectively control 87 percent of the world’s cable capex and found that 42 percent of them plan to deploy a distributed access architecture (DAA) by 2017.
News categories: Infonetics, Jeff Heynen, Broadband, Cable TV, Content Distribution, DOCSIS, Market Research, Worldwide

Dish TV adds 390 thousand subscribers in 2Q 2015
Jul 28, 2015 – Dish TV India (BSE: 532839, NSE: DISHTV) has reported first quarter fiscal 2016 results. Dish TV added 390 thousand net subscribers during the quarter to give a total subscriber base of 13.3 million at the end of the period.
News categories: Dish TV India, India, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Flat Panel Display revenues forecast to fall in 2015
Jul 28, 2015 – Led by declining thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT LCD) revenues, global flat panel display (FPD) industry revenue is forecast to fall 2 percent, from $131.4 billion in 2014 to $129 billion in 2015, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS).
News categories: IHS, David Hsieh, Market Research, Smart TV, Worldwide

Global STB shipments fell 2% to 275 million units in 2014
Jul 28, 2015 – According to Futuresource Consulting, STB shipments fell 2% to 275 million units in 2014, due to minimal growth or actual cut backs in key emerging markets, caused by economic factors or delays in government cable digitisation programs.
News categories: Futuresource Consulting, Jack Wetherill, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Worldwide

Distribution Encoder market revenues to decline 21% by 2020
Jul 28, 2015 – According to Futuresource Consulting, the broadcast (linear) encoder markets are due to decline over the next five years. Revenues are expected to decline by 21% in the distribution market and by 10% in the contribution market.
News categories: Futuresource Consulting, Adam Cox, Content Distribution, Market Research, Worldwide

FTTH subscribers in Asia-Pacific up 35 percent in one year
Jul 28, 2015 – Figures from IDATE and the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific have revealed that more than 300 million businesses and homes across Asia-Pacific now have access to fiber services - an increase of 36.8% when compared to 2013.
News categories: FTTH Council, IDATE, Peter Macaulay, Asia, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Streaming, Subscribers