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Worldwide Digital Set-top Box Market to Hit 226 Million Shipments in 2015
Oct 11, 2010 – The worldwide market for digital set-top boxes - including hard-to-track free-to-air (FTA) satellite (DBS) boxes - will grow from 205 million in 2010 to 226 million in 2015, says ABI Research.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

2010 a milestone year for DTT in Europe
Oct 11, 2010 – Recent data from the MAVISE TV database, developed for the DG Communication of the European Commission by the European Audiovisual Observatory, shows the current status of the European television market.
News categories: MAVISE, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

TV subscribers in Spain reach 4.5 million in 2Q 2010
Oct 8, 2010 – Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published telecommunications statistics for the country for the second quarter of 2010. Total TV (satellite, cable, IPTV, DTT and mobile) subscribers surpassed the 4.5 million mark in the quarter.
News categories: Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Latin America and Europe only Regions Forecast for Set Top Box Shipment and Revenue Increases in 2010
Oct 7, 2010 – In 2Q10, worldwide set top box revenue declined by 6% from the previous quarter while shipments declined even more. For the remainder of 2010, only Latin America and Europe are forecast to show any gains in revenue or unit shipments, according to In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Ofcom releases 2Q 2010 UK Digital Television Update
Oct 7, 2010 – Consumer survey results from Ofcom for the second quarter of 2010 show that take-up of digital television in UK households stood at 92.7%, up by 2.9 percentage points year on year.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Video Entertainment Industry Targets New OTT Services and Business Models to Offset Legacy Revenue Streams
Oct 6, 2010 – As internet-based video services and on-demand viewing of TV and movies has a growing impact on traditional revenue streams, the video entertainment industry must adapt once again, says In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Blu-ray, DVD, Market Research, Streaming

3D TV Shipments to Approach 50 Million in 2015
Oct 6, 2010 – The 3D TV market will spend the next couple of years establishing itself and accumulating a base of content and devices (both TVs and Blu-ray players). In 2013, according to ABI Research, market growth will start to accelerate.
News categories: ABI Research, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research, Metaverse, Smart TV

iSuppli Teardown Reveals Apple TV's Inner iPad
Oct 5, 2010 – Although Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) second-generation Apple TV represents a dramatic departure from the first-generation product, its internal design and key components are almost exactly the same as the iPad and iPod Touch, according to iSuppli.
News categories: iSuppli, Apple TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Streaming, USA

473,000 pay TV subscribers in Uruguay at end-June 2010
Oct 3, 2010 – The Uruguayan communications regulator Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC) has released a survey of the telecommunications market in Uruguay up to the end of June 2010.
News categories: URSEC, Cable TV, Market Research, MMDS, Satellite, Subscribers, Uruguay