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TV makers cope amidst flat growth, constrained margins
The glitter and hype of a trade show like CES can mask an industry’s underlying weaknesses. Amidst a wave of smarter and enhanced products, the TV business faces flattening demand and margins that may be upside down....
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Haier arrives in the UK this April, Coby has a range of models, and RCA has a sub-$60 streamer that is being built into a home theater. Hisense is transferring content between the TV and tablet.…
The major CE manufacturers are focused on companion screen experiences and multimedia content sharing, both within the home and beyond. Despite dropping ‘connected’ from their marketing, connectivity is still key for the new breed of Smart TV.…
The winner of Samsung’s “Free the TV” competition, announced at CES 2012, was an application that enables consumers to push photos taken at parties and events with mobile devices instantly onto a Samsung Smart TV.…
The company is drawing on its broadcast EPG heritage, with low processing and memory footprints, to deliver a connected TV software platform at no extra cost to CE vendors. The market includes own-brand TVs destined for bedrooms.…
The CE vendor is releasing a remote control app and a media guide app this year so consumers can control its Smart TVs using tablets. There is also DLNA enabled media sharing with laptops and phones.…
An improved user interface is accompanied by remote control apps and the ability to stream content from tablets and smartphones to the TV, reflecting a major theme at CES 2012.…
The CE giants have both been demonstrating their Google TV solutions at CES, with an emphasis on comprehensive video search, which looks far less removed from a ‘mainstream’ TV experience then you might think.…
Samsung has promised that its 2012 connected TVs will be fully upgradeable so new features can be added, removing the need to buy again. More processing power enables apps multi-tasking, and there is voice and gesture control.…
LG will offer a range of Google TV televisions in the U.S. this year. At CES the company outlined how it will differentiate in Connected TV and how its devices will combine to create the smart home.…
Facebook is one of the most popular apps on Samsung connected TVs and non-video apps are well used, but video dominates and all broadcasters will finally embrace the platform for catch-up in 2012, Futuresource predicts.…
With YouView just around the corner there should be a sharp focus on hybrid broadcast broadband (HBB) services in the UK next year, and if the marketing is anything like as successful as it was with Freeview then…
The UK broadcaster does not rule out the possibility of sharing advertising revenues with Philips and others in return for providing greater reach via connected TVs. But despite talking with YouTube, it is wary of Google.…
While 70% of Samsung televisions are now connected TVs (or Smart TVs as the company likes to call them), Vassilis Seferidis, Director of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics Europe, has been highlighting another statistic that he thinks…
Do not expect rationalisation of standards and anything close to a pan-European, let alone a global specification for hybrid broadcast broadband (HBB). That was the message from a panel of experts at the OTT TV World Summit on…
The television industry needs to reinvent itself and match the consumer convenience of pirate websites, albeit with rights protected, according to Jacinto Roca, CEO at Wuaki.tv, the Spanish OTT provider that offers Hollywood and local content, harnessing connected…
Even before the launch of the YouView hybrid broadcast broadband platform, anticipated for next year, the market for OTT delivered to televisions via mass-market platforms in the UK is warming up. The ITV Player catch-up service joined BBC…
Consumers have a much higher willingness to pay for online movie or TV content on connected TV screens than on a PC. That has been proved at Blinkbox, the online movie service that is majority owned by supermarket…
Dan Saunders, Head of Content Services at Samsung Electronics Europe, has admitted that it will not be possible to differentiate a connected TV service through the content offered on the platform once the market for these devices matures.…
Despite its pioneering drive to make its content available across multiple screens, BSkyB is sceptical about the need for a presence on connected TV sets. Speaking at the Screen Digest ‘Future of Digital Media Distribution’ conference in London…
Android set-top boxes provide a simple and cost-effective way to make popular apps that consumers are used to seeing on tablets and mobiles available on TV. At IBC2011, EchoStar Europe was demonstrating how the Angry Birds game and…
Andrew Burke, CEO at Amino Technologies, believes Pay TV operators will increasingly pursue an ‘offnet’ strategy by harnessing STBs that can support HTML5 and HTTP Live Streaming to deliver OTT services. At IBC2011 he explained why a complementary…
UK cable operator Virgin Media will continue its cautious approach to deployment of the TiVo set-top box, integrating IP and web based content with broadcast DVB-C services. Speaking at IBC 2011, the TV industry’s leading trade fair, Virgin…
One-quarter of all the content Virgin Media customers are viewing through the company’s new TiVo platform is discovered without using the ‘traditional’ programme guide. This is the clearest example yet of how the addition of sophisticated content recommendation…
YES, the Israeli satellite Pay TV provider, expects tablets to have a significant impact on viewing at home. The company launched its Apple iPad application earlier this year and Itzhak Elyakim, VP Engineering & CTO at the company,…
In the build-up to IBC we are putting the spotlight on a handful of products we think are worth special attention at the show. This week it is VideoGuard Connect from NDS, a DRM designed to provide higher…
Google TV is coming to Europe early next year, as confirmed by the company’s Chief Executive Eric Schmidt during his MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week. Naturally broadcasters, advertisers and Pay TV operators will…
Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt used the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week to tell the UK’s TV industry that his company means it no harm and is not looking to compete with broadcasters and content creators. Instead,…
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can become fully fledged Pay TV operators in their own right by establishing end-to-end managed infrastructures. This is the view of John Paul, Chief Product Officer at EchoStar Advanced Technologies, which earlier this year…
DVB-T2, the second generation DVB-T standard, will extend the life of digital terrestrial transmission and ensure it remains an important medium for free-to-air and public service broadcasting in the era of multi-screen HD services. DVB-T2 brings an immediate…
OTT services with increasingly powerful interactive features, supported by connected TV sets, are a threat to Pay TV. Many operators will have the scale to justify their own cloud apps developer programs to encourage their own innovation.…
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