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Market research firm Parks Associates has a new white paper, "IPTV and the digital home," that suggests total subscribers worldwide to IPTV and telco TV services will number close to 40 million by the end of 2009. The firm says that more network operators are starting to recognize the value of the full digital home approach, rather than just having a "killer app mentality" about IPTV.

From the article, "Parks predicts nearly 40M IPTV subs this year"

Parks Associates has new research suggesting that at least 20 percent of broadband households in Western Europe have viewed a movie or TV program online within the last six months. Despite the sizable figure, the research firm also says that among countries surveyed, including the U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy and France, more than 80 percent of broadband households still actually prefer going out to a cinema or watching a DVD as video viewing methods versus watching a video progr ...read more