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David Mercer
| Jan 04, 2011
With a couple of hours to go before this year’s technofest in Las Vegas gets under way, I thought I’d issue a friendly warning to the growing number of firms (I...
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David Mercer
| Dec 22, 2010
We don’t do this very often folks, but as a seasonal gift we have made our 2011 Digital Home Predictions report available to everyone, whether a Strategy Analyt...
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David Mercer
| Dec 08, 2010
At 4.30 yesterday afternoon I wished Anthony Rose well for 2011. He agree it was going to be an exciting time, as YouView moves into the launch phase, and gave ...
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David Mercer
| Dec 06, 2010
Two thirds of people who are thinking of buying an iPad in the next 12 months are expecting to pay less than the current lowest retail price, according to the l...
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David Mercer
| Dec 01, 2010
As I prepare to chair a panel discussion on television advertising at this week’s Future TV Advertising conference, I thought I would dip into our consumer surv...
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David Mercer
| Nov 04, 2010
Having tested Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect for the last few days I can confirm that it has the elusive wow factor. Controlling on-screen icons and menus with a wave ...
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David Mercer
| Oct 19, 2010
I never thought I would hear it, but the buzz on the streets of Essex, that trend-setting county just east of London, is that Research in Motion (RIM)’s BlackBe...
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David Mercer
| Oct 14, 2010
The excitement around 3D has been palpable over the past year, beginning with the numerous announcements, roll outs and demos at CES. The momentum continued th...
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David Mercer
| Oct 14, 2010
Hidden away in the depths of the European Commission’s latest household communications survey is a finding that should scare the 4X out of the cable industry: t...
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David Mercer
| Oct 13, 2010
I was speaking on the panel at the OTT 'mashup' eventat Ogilvy's London Docklands headquarters last night, alongside Turner Broadcasting's Casey Harwood and Ant...
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David Mercer
| Sep 29, 2010
Lack of ambition would presumably not be the most obvious failing of a new company which styles itself under the label “Everything Everywhere” (EE for sake of b...
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David Mercer
| Sep 21, 2010
Embarrassing Apology of the Week Award goes to Sky for the following email just received by its UK customers:
“In our recent newsletter - 'This week on Sky Pla...
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David Mercer
| Sep 09, 2010
Many thanks to Jeff Baumgartner at Light Reading for reminding me of my post last September concerning ActiveVideo Networks and the company's suitability as a p...
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David Mercer
| Sep 07, 2010
This year’s IFA www.ifa-berlin.de nicely summed up the opposing challenges facing the next wave of TV technologies. The plethora of new connected TVs on display...
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David Mercer
| Sep 02, 2010
It’s been implied on more than one occasion by various commentators that the arrival of 3DTV is “too soon” because many people have only recently bought their f...
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David Mercer
| Aug 27, 2010
3DTV will again be one of the hot topics at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam. Unlike previous years, however, discussions and demonstrations will take place against...
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David Mercer
| Aug 24, 2010
Strategy Analytics' latest consumer survey indicates great uncertainty over the potential health effects of watching 3DTV. 17% of our 2000 US survey respondents...
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David Mercer
| Aug 23, 2010
It’s no surprise that a majority of early iPad buyers had already bought into the Apple ecosystem, but the fact that fully 90% of people who say they will buy a...
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David Mercer
| Aug 17, 2010
We're delighted to announce our plans for this year's IBC in Amsterdam. For many years now Strategy Analytics has offered an analyst forum focusing on key topic...
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David Mercer
| Jul 27, 2010
A year ago almost to the day we called for Ofcom to put an end to ISPs’ ridiculous practice of describing broadband speeds with the meaningless phrase “up to”. ...
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