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Mobile Video Service Subscriptions to Grow Five-Fold by 2014
Jun 4, 2009 – The global number of users paying for mobile video services will grow five-fold from 2008 to 2014, surpassing 534 million, with a substantial proportion of net additions coming from emerging markets, according to a report by Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, 5G, Brazil, Chile, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Subscribers, USA

Cable MSOs Take a Shortcut to Compete with Telco IPTV, Report Finds
Jun 3, 2009 – Rather than wait for tru2way to fully develop, cable operators are planning to roll out interactive TV services to compete with telco IPTV by deploying existing technology that can deliver interactive features to legacy set-top boxes.
News categories: Light Reading, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

HD Set-Top Boxes to Account for Nearly One Third of Total STB Shipments Next Year
Jun 3, 2009 – Shipments of set-top boxes are expected to peak this year, at least in mature markets, and then commence a gradual decline. However HD STBs will form a growing fraction of the market accounting for about 30% of all STB shipments as soon as 2010.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Red Hot IPTV Set Top Market is Cooling
Jun 2, 2009 – The IP set top box market grew 55 percent in 2008, but such breakneck growth will not continue, reports In-Stat. Many telcos have already launched TV services, so there are fewer new prospects. The economic climate is also sapping investment.
News categories: In-Stat, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Semiconductor, Set Top Box

Big Growth Ahead for Connected HDTVs, Blu-ray Players and Digital Media Adapters
Jun 1, 2009 – Connectivity will be a force to reckon with according to Yankee Group's connected device forecast, which predicts more than 60 percent of U.S. households will have a home network by 2013.
News categories: Yankee Group, Blu-ray, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming, USA

Asia-Pacific Leads Telco TV Subscription Growth
Jun 1, 2009 – The bleak market outlook in the last quarter of 2008 did not seem to deter the growth of pay TV. According to market data from ABI Research, APAC will continue leading subscription growth, delivering a 37% CAGR over the next three years.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

MaxLinear Passes the 50 Million TV Tuner IC Shipment Milestone
Jun 1, 2009 – MaxLinear has announced that it has shipped more than 50 million TV tuner ICs, showing the value of MaxLinear's standard digital CMOS-based RF/mixed-signal IC technology as the replacement for RF BiCMOS and Silicon Germanium based tuner ICs.
News categories: MaxLinear, ISDB-T, Market Research, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Telekom Slovenia exceeds 100k video subscribers
May 29, 2009 – Telekom Slovenia [Ljubljana:TLSG] has reported result for the period January to March 2009. The growth of IPTV (SiOL TV) continued with connections reaching 95,331. Cable television connections stood at 6,555 at the end of March 2009.
News categories: Telekom Slovenia, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Slovenia, Subscribers

TiVo subscriptions down 139k in quarter to end-April '09
May 27, 2009 – TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) has reported financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, 2009. TiVo-Owned subscription gross additions for the first quarter were approximately 37,000, compared to 48,000 gross additions for the year-ago period.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Australia, Cable TV, Canada, DVR, Mexico, New Zealand, Results, Set Top Box, Streaming, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA