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Shipments of Video PMPs to Exceed 130 Million Worldwide in 2011
Oct 11, 2007 – Worldwide shipments of video portable multimedia players (PMPs) will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units in 2011, according to Parks Associates' report Portable Multimedia Players: Analysis and Forecasts, Second Edition.
News categories: Parks Associates, Digital TV, Market Research, Tablet

2,000,000 new digital cable TV customers in Europe in first half of 2007
Oct 11, 2007 – Cable Europe, representing the cable TV industry in Europe, announced that cable TV operators in Europe added more than two million digital TV customers in the first half of 2007.
News categories: Cable Europe, Greenwich Consulting, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Market Research, Subscribers

Strategy Analytics: Flat Panel TV Sales Surge Through $100 Billion Barrier
Oct 10, 2007 – Consumers will spend more than $100 Billion worldwide on flat panel TVs (FPTV) during 2007, according to the latest report from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart TV

Facing Challenges, Set-Top Box Makers Will Respond with Advanced Features
Oct 10, 2007 – As revenue from standard STB (Set-top Box) sales declines along with demand in the period 2008 to 2012, STB vendors will have to add new features and functions in order to revive flagging shipment numbers.
News categories: ABI Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

MRG Releases September 2007 Global IPTV Market Leaders Report
Oct 10, 2007 – MRG announces the "IPTV Market Leaders Report - September 2007," which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sub-sectors based on their installed base for 6 product areas in over 600 IPTV Operations and 8 million subscribers worldwide.
News categories: Multimedia Research Group (MRG), Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

For Mobile TV, Technology Is No Longer the Issue
Oct 9, 2007 – According to a new study from ABI Research, successful mobile video technologies are largely in place. As questions about business models, distribution, and content are resolved, the mobile TV industry will take off in earnest.
News categories: ABI Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile

The Future of Television (TV) Market: The Evolving Landscape Of HDTV, IPTV And Mobile TV
Oct 9, 2007 – Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the worldwide consumer electronics industry is now available in its catalogue.
News categories: ReportLinker, Business Insights, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Terrestrial, TV Services

Technology Shifting in Real-Time Broadcast MPEG Encoder Market According to In-Stat
Oct 9, 2007 – The real-time broadcast MPEG encoder market is growing as new digital TV providers and TV channels are launched and HD content grows, reports In-Stat. There is also a large shift taking place, as H.264 is replacing MPEG-2 as the compression technology of choice in many of the segments.
News categories: In-Stat, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

India's DishTV Targets 8 Million Users by 2011
Oct 9, 2007 – Essel Group promoted DishTV (BSE:532839) is expecting an over three-fold increase in its subscriber base to 8 million by 2011.
News categories: DishTV, Digital TV, India, Satellite, Subscribers