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Watching punch and counterpunch in the Murdoch/Branson battle is tremendous fun, but their private war is beginning to suck in reluctant bystanders. Sky's annou...
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| Feb 19, 2007
In sharp contrast to the UK, France has laid down new laws concerning the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television. It is the first country in...
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| Feb 09, 2007
Here is the side-by-side comparison in an Akihabara store of a 65" PDP from Panasonic and the same size LCD from Sharp: The Sharp is discounted by 44% to Y778,0...
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| Feb 08, 2007
Sharp Corporation is one of Japan's unsung heros of the technology sector and a perfect if somewhat extreme illustration of the value of long-term investment de...
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| Jan 31, 2007
Nintendo helped create the modern videogames industry, and the company remains a leading force and is financially successful. In spite of this, Strategy Analyti...
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| Jan 31, 2007
Sky's latest digital TV results demonstrate perfectly how it is fighting two battles at the same time. Churn continues to rise - now up to 11.9%, compared to be...
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| Jan 22, 2007
Loewe AG, the German manufacturer of high end TVs and consumer electronics, announced 2006 results today. Sales were up 7% to €341m, and the company made EBIT p...
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| Jan 18, 2007
Another convergence merger is announced. Arris and Tandberg are to join forces: as they put it, "The newly created company will have the scale and the critical ...
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| Jan 14, 2007
...after the out-of-this-world experience of Las Vegas, that is. A visit to retirement-age parents in suburban Essex is a good way to be reminded of the down-to...
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| Jan 12, 2007
Sorry for the delay, but finally here are a few photos from CES. The full selection is reserved for Strategy Analytics clients, but I hope these are of interest...
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| Jan 11, 2007
Some final thoughts on the Show as we head back to the UK.I covered the LG dual-format BD/HD-DVD launch, and this got a lot of general press attention. The real...
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| Jan 10, 2007
A dominant theme at CES is what I call Internet TV (as opposed to IPTV, which tends to refer to managed, operator-delivered services). Microsoft have confirmed ...
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| Jan 09, 2007
Vista is a big part of the show of course. One interesting aspect of the new OS is the Sideshow feature. This extends selected capabilities of the PC to a varie...
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| Jan 08, 2007
Some bits and pieces from today's press conferences and tonight's excellent Digital Experience press event (I should point out that Strategy Analytics clients w...
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| Jan 07, 2007
A few tasters from tonight's media preview:3D headsets from TDVision: take any video content processed on a PC and transform them into a 3D image using a dual-i...
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| Jan 06, 2007
I just returned from the CEA's overview of the state of the CE industry, and their forecasts for 2007 confirm our own views - that sales growth will decline sig...
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| Jan 03, 2007
I won't often post just to publicise our research, but I thought this was useful in view of the many announcements at CES likely to focus on media sharing. We j...
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| Jan 03, 2007
2 million seems to be everybody's favourite statistic this week. Sky announced 2 million Sky+ installations in the UK, and Microsoft was reported as having sold...
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| Dec 30, 2006
A brief tale to illustrate how a single event can demonstrate the power of the mobile Internet. My family and I were queuing for tickets at the London Eye. The ...
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| Dec 29, 2006
The BBC's primetime consumer rights programme, Watchdog, has been featuring BSkyB's digital TV PVR service, Sky+, in recent weeks. According to the presenters t...
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