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| Dec 10, 2008
Just a quick snapshot of the past couple of days at CScape2008. Cisco has been talking about consumer markets since it acquired Linksys, Kiss Technologies and S...
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| Dec 09, 2008
Like most telecoms technology vendors, Alcatel-Lucent has been suffering from a stagnant market and intense competition from emerging players such as Huawei. In...
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| Nov 27, 2008
I attended the Westminster Media Forum Seminar in London this afternoon, entitled Pay TV – market prospects , competition and service to viewers. The conference...
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| Nov 25, 2008
As the meeting invitations roll in, it's clear CES 2009 is going to be several notches down on the previous couple of years, in terms of visitor numbers and exh...
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| Nov 24, 2008
We recently completed our latest survey of broadband and digital TV customer satisfaction and churn. The first analysis concentrated on broadband in the US. Fut...
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| Nov 21, 2008
...On Strategy Analytics' target, that is. We predicted global 2008 sales of 4.0 million units back in March, and that still seems a reasonable estimate. Some m...
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| Nov 21, 2008
Another sign that France continues to lead the world in emerging TV business models: the leading media and electronics retailer, FNAC, and French IPTV technolog...
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| Sep 26, 2008
We were given the first view of Sling Media’s new Slingcatcher device yesterday at a presentation in London. We’re not allowed to tell you the launch date altho...
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| Sep 17, 2008
...and not before time. The BT Vision Philips set-top box (V-box) has had HD capability built in from day one, as have most IPTV set-top boxes around the world....
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| Sep 12, 2008
Following on from my previous discussion of Blu-ray quality broadcasting claims, here is a further sign that confusion reigns when it comes to discussing what i...
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| Sep 12, 2008
While less than 1% of European TV viewers have ever seen the current generation of HDTV, the first live transmission of the next generation standard, Super Hi-V...
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| Sep 03, 2008
New research from NDS suggests that digital video recorders have improved relationships for nearly 80% of couples. In NDS's survey of DVR owners in the US, UK, ...
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| Aug 29, 2008
A quick follow-up to my previous comments on 1080p broadcasting and its potential challenge to the Blu-ray Disc platform. I asked Disney’s EVP Gordon Ho, who le...
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| Aug 27, 2008
It’s not the headline the organisers of this year’s IFA want to see, but the biggest news from the opening press conference today was that demand for consumer e...
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| Aug 26, 2008
One of the main objectives of Blu-ray Disc developers was to set a benchmark in video quality that would provide sufficient encouragement for DVD owners to upgr...
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| Aug 22, 2008
Microsoft introduced its new Photosynth service yesterday at an event in central London. Photosynth was developed by Seadragon and acquired by Microsoft two yea...
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| Aug 22, 2008
I thought I'd share a personal angle on an industry issue that's grabbing the home PC sector's attention right now. It was sparked by a meeting yesterday with Z...
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| Aug 21, 2008
Few Wii users will have heard of Hillcrest Labs, except perhaps those who also read this blog. Back in January I described Hillcrest's TV guide and "Loop" remot...
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| Aug 11, 2008
Just a heads-up that we'll be giving two analyst presentations at this year's IBC in September; one on our research on connected TV devices, and another present...
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| Jul 23, 2008
In the very first entry in this blog back in late 2006 I moaned about the tendency ofbroadband service providers to market their services with the term "up to" ...
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