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Germany: 2009 CE Market and 2010 Forecast
Jul 14, 2010 – According to GfK Retail and Technology, the German Consumer Electronics market saw minimal decline (-0.2%) in 2009; the main reason being the introduction and expansion of HDTV, leading to increased sales of LCD TV's and Digital Set-Top-Boxes.
News categories: GfK, Blu-ray, Camcorder, Digital TV, DVD, Germany, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

11,000 3D TVs sold in France in May and June
Jul 13, 2010 – According to GfK, 11,000 3D TVs were sold in France in May and June boosted by the World Cup. GfK forecasts that the total market in France for this year should be between 150,000 and 250,000 3D TV sets.
News categories: GfK, France, Market Research, Metaverse, Smart TV

Windows 7 Kick-Starts DLNA and UPnP In-Home Media Networking
Jul 13, 2010 – Support for DLNA in Windows 7 will spark significant growth in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology, which is used to make in-home media sharing easier, reports In-Stat.
News categories: In-Stat, Market Research, Smart Home

TNTSAT continues to see strong growth
Jul 12, 2010 – SES ASTRA (Paris and Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that the French digital terrestrial channel offer on satellite, TNTSAT, broadcast via ASTRA, continues to show strong growth with a total of 2.3 million receivers sold at the end of June 2010.
News categories: TNTSAT, Digital TV, France, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box

Colombia's UNE-EPM already at 120,000 IPTV subscribers
Jul 12, 2010 – UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones of Colombia has added more than 120,000 IPTV subscribers since launch, adding new users at a rate of 10,000 per month.
News categories: UNE-EPM, Sagem, Colombia, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Subscribers

China HDTV Subscribers Pass 2 Million Mark, Driving Upside for Cogo
Jul 9, 2010 – Cogo Group (Nasdaq: COGO), an embedded solutions and software provider in China, has announced that upgrades to High Definition Television ("HDTV") in China are accelerating with total subscribers reaching over 2 million.
News categories: Cogo Group, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

MRG Reports Global IPTV Service Revenue Growing to US$46 Billion by 2014
Jul 8, 2010 – MRG has announced that its updated report on global IPTV shows that subscribers will reach 102 million in 2014. Robust broadband and IPTV investments have been driving growth as a means to meet and outperform cable and satellite competition.
News categories: Multimedia Research Group, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Asia Pacific TV market achieves twin milestones
Jul 7, 2010 – According to the latest figures from Informa Telecoms & Media, the Asia Pacific TV sector passed two significant milestones last month, with the region now exceeding 150 million digital TV homes while, at the same time, surpassing 10 million IPTV households.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, New Zealand, Philippines, Satellite, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

WiFi to bring mobile TV to the masses
Jul 6, 2010 – A report published by Juniper Research has found that a surge in applications which can take advantage of the increasing availability of free WiFi services are set to boost the mobile TV industry with anticipated revenues of nearly $7bn by 2015.
News categories: Juniper Research, 5G, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Streaming