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David Mercer
| Jan 28, 2010
Apple cynics seem to have taken the initiative following the announcement of Apple’s iPad internet tablet. I tend to shy away from anything as hyped as this pro...
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David Mercer
| Jan 11, 2010
Sony has introduced what it calls a new device category at CES 2010: the “Personal Internet Viewer”. This takes the form of Dash, a small, 7” touch screen inter...
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David Mercer
| Jan 09, 2010
We met with Boxee which was demonstrating its first set-top box, developed by D-Link and based on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chip. This is a powerful platform allowing fu...
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David Mercer
| Jan 06, 2010
The challenges facing 3D TV were evident from its relative lack of focus at LG’s CES press conference this morning. While brief mention was made of the plans fo...
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David Mercer
| Jan 06, 2010
The depth of the recession in the US consumer electronics market was highlighted today by CEA data which confirmed a decline in dollar revenues in 2009 of 12%. ...
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David Mercer
| Jan 06, 2010
Toshiba's press conference focused almost exclusively on the launch of Cell TV in the US market. We have followed the progress of Cell technology for nearly the...
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David Mercer
| Jan 04, 2010
Strategy Analytics will as usual have a strong complement of analysts and representatives in Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Our d...
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David Mercer
| Nov 25, 2009
How much is a cable-free TV worth? That’s the key question for TV manufacturers and technology vendors as they seek to stir interest once again in the concept o...
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David Mercer
| Nov 12, 2009
I was preparing a comment on plans for 3D at next year’s World Cup finals in South Africa. Then this article was published by respected broadcast journalist Adr...
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David Mercer
| Nov 11, 2009
Global advertising revenues are forecast to decline by 8.5% this year, according to Strategy Analytics’ latest Global Advertising Forecast. In such a tough envi...
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David Mercer
| Nov 02, 2009
Things certainly didn't run according to the slick rollout plan Sky and Microsoft had promised us. In the grand scheme of things that is unlikely to have any ma...
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David Mercer
| Oct 22, 2009
In a press release published today, we predict that AT&T and Verizon will post double digit IPTV subscriber growth for the third quarter. Both have seen an imp...
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David Mercer
| Oct 22, 2009
The tone of this year's Supercomm is certainly more political than usual, with net neutrality at the center. Otherwise benign speeches and presentations are pu...
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David Mercer
| Oct 19, 2009
The UK’s 1.3m Sky TV subscribers who own Xbox 360s are about to get a real treat. Instead of putting up with Sky’s archaic EPG they will soon be surfing Sky’s c...
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David Mercer
| Oct 14, 2009
Strategy Analytics’ recent user experience study concludes that there is a clear opportunity for developers to fill the need for more advanced TV remote control...
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David Mercer
| Oct 12, 2009
Perform and Kentaro have confirmed that "close to" half a million viewers watched the live internet stream of Ukraine v. England on Saturday (see my previous po...
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David Mercer
| Oct 10, 2009
One of the biggest ever live Internet sports events passed off (for this viewer at least) without major technial hitches this evening as the World Cup qualifier...
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David Mercer
| Oct 01, 2009
Cisco has agreed to acquire Tandberg, the videoconferencing specialist based in Norway, for around $3bn. Cisco has long targeted video conferencing, or telepres...
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David Mercer
| Oct 01, 2009
At this week’s Ceatec event in Tokyo Sony will introduce a prototype single-lens 3D professional video camera, the first of its kind. The technology operates at...
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David Mercer
| Sep 29, 2009
Lots of excitement in the press over the weekend about the availability of Canvas set-top boxes in the UK by Christmas 2010. For non-UK readers, Canvas is the B...
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