Worldwide pay-TV subscriber households continued to grow in 2012, increasing at a healthy 8% annual clip. Total pay-TV subscribers, consisting of cable TV, satellite TV, and IPTV subscribers, now number over 800 million households. The Asia-Pacific region fueled most of the subscriber growth in 2012, as 40 million new households in the region signed up for pay-TV [...]
Learn more Download SampleIn recent years, the term “cloud” or “cloud computing” has become more popular. The cloud is simply another term for hardware and software services that are delivered as a managed service over a network, usually the public Internet. Cloud-based TV services are then services that are typically outside a TV operator’s plant. Instead of procuring, [...]
Learn more Download SamplePay-TV operators have risen to the challenge of OTT video by extending the delivery of content to a variety of consumer electronics devices including connected TVs, smartphones, tablets, and more. This report covers the methods used to protect content as it moves outside the set-top box. Forecasts for conditional access and DRM are included, but [...]
Learn more Download SampleFor cable TV operators in North America, the past several years have been tough. In particular, cable TV operators throughout the region have experienced significant challenges in retaining their video service subscribers. However, there appears to be some positive news on the horizon. For the past several calendar quarters, the pace of cable subscriber losses [...]
Learn more Download SampleIn the increasingly competitive global pay-TV industry, cable TV operators are searching for ways to increase the amount of IP video they can provide to their subscribers. One way to accomplish this goal is to upgrade existing equipment in the cable headend with Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP)-capable products. CCAP products are designed to integrate [...]
Learn more Download SampleIPTV subscribers experienced strong growth in 2012. The success of IPTV, particularly in Asia, is due to strong growth in maturing markets like China and South Korea. Currently, China has the most IPTV subscribers worldwide and that trend will likely continue. The fastest growing IPTV regions continue to be emerging markets like Latin America and [...]
Learn more Download SampleChina’s e-commerce transaction volume will reach US$1.3 trillion by the end of 2012 – is your company ready to benefit? Companies focused exclusively on selling products to Chinese consumers through brick and mortar stores are missing out on a tremendous new channel to reach hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers who reside outside of major [...]
Learn more Download SampleThe growth of “over the top” video services is attracting attention to consumer electronics products that can efficiently support streaming media services. One of these products, the streaming media player, has enjoyed significant growth over the past two years. MRG is forecasting that worldwide unit shipments of streaming media players, led by Apple TV and [...]
Learn more Download SampleUtilizing the same methodology as the IPTV Market Leader Report by Product and Region, this report complements that research and contains sections on leaders broken down by subscriber tiers, as well as vendor-specific market data on their rankings, broken down by geography. Provided is a breakdown of set-top box and middleware vendors by the number [...]
Learn more Download SampleMRG’s IPTV Market Leader Reports (MLR) identify which IPTV systems and software companies are leading each of the six IPTV market segments: access systems, video headend systems (VHE), video-on-demand server software (VOD), set-top boxes (STB), middleware (MW), and content protection/digital rights management (CP/DRM). The data is further segmented by the following geographic regions: North America, [...]
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