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IPTV subscribers hit 6 million in Korea
Nov 8, 2012 – According to the Korea Digital Media Industry Association there are now more than 6 million IPTV subscribers in South Korea. The milestone comes less than four years after commercial services were launched at the beginning of 2009.
News categories: Korea Digital Media Industry Association, Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Subscribers

Microsoft Extends Lead to 23% of the IPTV Middleware Market
Nov 7, 2012 – Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform leads the IPTV middleware market and continues to grow in market share as of mid-2012 to 23% of deployed IPTV boxes, according to ABI Research. ZTE and Huawei also play strongly in the market.
News categories: ABI Research, Sam Rosen, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware

Global Blu-ray Disc Player Installed Base to Hit 100 Million in 2012
Nov 7, 2012 – Despite the slower than expected growth in the Blu-ray disc player market, the global installed base of standalone Blu-ray Disc (BD) players will hit the 100 million unit mark by the end of 2012, according to a recent Strategy Analytics forecast.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research

Nearly 600 million connected TV sets by 2017
Nov 7, 2012 – The number of TV connections to the Internet will reach 596 million by 2017, up from 105 million at end-2010 and the 212 million expected at end-2012 according to a Connected TV Forecasts report from Digital TV Research.
News categories: Digital TV Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

MRG Ranks Global IPTV Market Leaders
Nov 6, 2012 – MRG has released its annual IPTV Market Leader Report (MLR) which identifies the companies leading each of six IPTV market segments: access systems, video headends, VOD server software, set-top boxes, middleware, and content protection/DRM.
News categories: MRG, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

Netherlands adds 700,000 digital TV subscribers in year to June 2012
Nov 6, 2012 – The Netherlands' Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority (OPTA) has published new figures on the communication markets in the country for Q2 2012. The number of TV subscriptions at the end of the quarter was 7.7 million.
News categories: Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

OLED TVs to Start Shipping by the End of 2012
Nov 6, 2012 – Despite high expectations set by manufacturers Samsung and LG Electronics for the entry of OLED displays into the TV market in 2012, these sets will likely only be available in small volumes by the end of this year, according to NPD DisplaySearch.
News categories: DisplaySearch, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

100% installation of cable set-top boxes in Delhi
Nov 3, 2012 – India's capital has achieved its target of 100% conversion to digital cable TV according to State Chief Secretary P. K. Tripathi, with 2.321 million cable TV set-top boxes having already been installed.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Set Top Box

OTT Rental Revenue to Surpass Subscription Services by 2014
Nov 1, 2012 – By 2017 ABI Research expects over-the-top (OTT) revenue to quadruple to $32 billion, up from the expected $8.2 billion in 2012. By 2014, ABI Research expects OTT rentals to surpass subscription revenues.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming