More than a billion streaming TV and video devices are now in use worldwide, according to streaming TV market share research from Strategy Analytics. Researchers track devices in 27 countries. With a 17% market share, Samsung is the leading streaming…
There are about 500K PlayStation Vue subscribers up for grabs, as Sony shut down the once pioneering streaming TV service yesterday. Sling and others are pursuing these streaming subscribers and Sling enlisted an old, yet very familiar brand to do…
The wheels are already falling off the vMVPD model, observe MoffettNathanson researchers in a research note released today. The financial analysts base this statement on third quarter results, which show that, with the exception of sports and news, consumers are…
News this week that Sony PlayStation Vue, an early streaming live TV offer, will shut down in early 2020 highlights a difficult streaming TV environment. Sony blamed high content costs and the highly competitive pay-TV business as primary reasons for…
The FCC said today that it has approved initial commercial deployments (ICDs) in the CBRS spectrum band from five spectrum access system (SAS) administrators. Each SAS administrator’s plans for CBRS initial commercial deployments may involve multiple wireless carriers, fixed wireless…
Consumers and businesses have more than 1 billion connected television devices across the globe, according to an estimate of the connected TV device base from Strategy Analytics. Smart TVs have become widely popular with more than 60 percent of televisions…
The headset segment of the still young augmented reality and virtual reality segments grew 25.5 percent year-over-year, according to new AR/VR headset sales data from IDC. The category reached 2.1 million headset units shipped, according to IDC. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly…
In a sign of the times, two NCTC OTT deals were announced at this week’s Independent Show, taking place in Indianapolis. The two deals will allow NCTC members to resell OTT services from Sony PlayStation Vue and fuboTV, both of…
Sales of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets picked up steam in 1Q 2017, and growth should continue strong throughout 2017, according to a new AR-VR headsets forecast from IDC. Anticipating the launch of a lengthy list of new…
The field for nationwide OTT offers is getting quite crowded, and it may one day include Comcast. A report from Bloomberg Business cites recent negotiations by Comcast to secure nationwide OTT rights from several programmers. The move appears to be…
Consumers will be buying a lot more virtual reality headsets (VR) in coming years as smartphone and high-tech vendors launch aggressive promotional campaigns, according to a new virtual reality headset penetration forecast from IHS Markit. VR headset use will surge…
AT&T is busily preparing for an upcoming DIRECTV OTT streaming launch, and is acquiring Quickplay in the process. Quickplay provides a managed video platform that powers OTT, TV Everywhere, and other digital video solutions. AT&T already uses Quickplay for their…
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