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Top 5 Reasons Why Digital TV Summit is the must attend event for anyone involved with the Global TV market: 1. It is the only event focused on a truly Global Multi-Platform Digital TV industry; Europe, Africa, Asia, North America all covered including some of the region's top growth markets and featuring the region's decision makers. 2. The agenda delivers insights on the whole TV ecosystem: all operators and service providers (satellite, cable, IPTV, DTT and fibre),...

The number of U.S. consumers planning to purchase a smart TV has nearly doubled in less than a year, according to new consumer research from Parks Associates. Parks Associates' Consumer Decision Process: Summer Update reports more than 10% of broadband households plan to purchase a smart TV in the second half of 2011, up from 6% in the first half. These households, representing 50% of the nearly one-fourth of U.S. broadband households planning to purchase a flat-panel TV, anticipate an...

Parks Associates' industry reports include facts, forecasts, background, and analysis of leading players in emerging markets. Reports typically contain market analysis, unit and revenue forecasts, technology reviews, global and regional analysis, and player profiles. Cloud-based Value-added Services This report provides a comprehensive analysis of value-added services delivered by broadband service providers. It examines the trends, technical issues, business models, and...

Accedo , the leading enabler of Smart TV and IPTV applications, has announced that it has reached a significant milestone of 20 million apps used the latest 12 months. Accedo provides applications, both through its own app store solutions and through application platforms from all major TV device manufacturers. Among Accedo’s applications is Funspot©, the most widely deployed TV game service, as well as video on demand apps, live TV apps, news and information, social media apps, to...

Fresh standards are being established for smart TVs as television manufacturers and service providers cater to increasing consumer demand for internet-delivered content and apps in the living room. At this month’s IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, Sony is to demonstrate a simpler version of the Google TV service, being made available next year outside the US for the first time, while LG, Philips and Sharp announced the first alliance of TV makers to establish common...

Comcast is charting a new course with its recent announcement that it’s dynamically inserting ads into video-on-demand, but even bigger dynamic ad insertion plans for VOD are afloat. After tweaking the network architecture, Canoe Ventures started testing DAI with vendors last year in its lab. A CableLabs interop earlier this year brought the company together with more vendors in the ecosystem to make sure the physical requirements and feature set would be the same in a field setting....

Consumer attitudes toward video access are changing, moving away from ownership and rental models to streaming and subscription services, as connected CE and smart TVs proliferate in the U.S. and Western Europe. Online Video and Internet TV Services: Global Outlook reports that in a six-month period, U.S. online video subscribers spent almost $50 on average for video subscriptions while a la carte video typically garnered less than half that amount. From 2009 to 2010, the number...

Parks Associates and LEVEL Studios will co-host a complimentary webcast Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 1 p.m. CT. This webcast is for CE device manufacturers and all brand marketers who want the latest information about the smart TV, smartphone and tablet markets. The webcast will look at ways in which device categories are converging and the impact that is having on product usage and consumer behaviors, go-to-market strategies for manufacturers and marketers looking to take advantage of...