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Comcast video subscribers down 81,000 in 3Q 2014
Oct 23, 2014 – Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) has reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Video customer net losses improved 36% year-over-year and were the best result for a third quarter in seven years.
News categories: Comcast, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, USA

AT&T adds 216,000 U-verse TV subscribers in 3Q 2014
Oct 22, 2014 – AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported its third-quarter 2014 results. U-verse TV added 216,000 subscribers in the third quarter to reach nearly 6.1 million in service. More than 97 percent of AT&T’s video customers subscribe to bundled services.
News categories: AT&T, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

HD and VOD feed Latin America's pay TV growth
Oct 22, 2014 – According to Frost & Sullivan, Latin American's pay TV market is expected to continue its growth trajectory due to a rise in postpaid subscriptions for DTH. Demand for value-added services such as HD and VOD is further spurring market development.
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Renato Pasquini, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite

64% of U.S. broadband households have Internet-connected CE
Oct 21, 2014 – Parks Associates has found that 64% of U.S. broadband households have an Internet-connected CE and 55% have an OTT service subscription, an area poised for strong growth especially following HBO's announcement that it will launch a stand-alone HBO Go service.
News categories: Parks Associates, Brett Sappington, Barbara Kraus, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

Demand for pay TV video encoders on the rise
Oct 21, 2014 – According to Frost & Sullivan, 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 the shows they want from content producers to their home set-top boxes.
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Robert Cavin, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Worldwide

Verizon adds 114,000 video subscribers in 3Q 2014
Oct 21, 2014 – Verizon Communications (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) has announced results for the third quarter of 2014. In the quarter, Verizon added 114,000 net new FiOS Video connections to end with 5.5 million FiOS Video connections, representing a year-over-year increase of 7.0 percent.
News categories: Verizon, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Dominance of pay TV masks strong growth in VOD services
Oct 21, 2014 – According to Gartner, while pay TV is the biggest segment of the overall consumer video services market, accounting for 96.3 percent of total spending in 2014 and 94.2 percent by 2018, subscription video on demand (S-VOD) is a growing market.
News categories: Gartner, Fernando Elizalde, Digital TV, Market Research, Worldwide

UK's Freesat adds 8,000 TV homes in 3Q 2014
Oct 20, 2014 – Freesat, the UK satellite TV service, has maintained its 2014 momentum by adding 8,000 new TV homes in the three months to the end of September. In all, Freesat has added 32,000 new households in the first nine months of 2014.
News categories: Freesat, Emma Scott, Apps, Digital TV, Satellite, Set Top Box, Subscribers, UK

Adobe report shows U.S. online TV consumption up 388 percent
Oct 20, 2014 – Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) has released its Video Benchmark Report, which analyzes online TV (TV Everywhere) and other, non-authenticated online video trends. Key findings of the Adobe Digital Index report show that more people watched more TV online than ever before.
News categories: Adobe, Jeremy Helfand, Digital TV, Gaming, Market Research, Mobile, Streaming, USA