Providing market intelligence for more than 35 years

IPTV News

IHS: Smart TVs becoming mainstream in the US

The usage of video apps like Vudu, Amazon Prime Video and CinemaNow was also found to be significantly higher among Smart TV owners than for consumers who access this type of application through another device connected to their TV set, such as a games console.

Smart TV owners are believed to be waking up to the possibilities created by connecting their devices to the Internet, with new research from Parks Associates finding that the percentage of smart TV owners who actually connect their device to the Internet now stands at 56%, compared to 40% six months ago.

From the article, "IHS: Smart TVs becoming mainstream in the US" by Jamie Beach.

Previously In The News

US IPTV subs wax, as cable subs wane

Telcos will be leading the next growth phase for pay-TV services in the US, with the number of IPTV subscribers there set to increase from 8.8mn at the end of 2011 to 18.6mn in 2017, according to n...

AT&T adds 198k U-verse TV subs in Q3

US telco AT&T had reached 4.3mn active subscribers to its managed IPTV service ‘U-verse TV’ by the end of the third quarter of this year, having added 198,000 customers in the three-month period....

Elemental Technologies: “Only software-based video compression solutions can keep up”

Consumers are formative forces: market research firm Parks Associates predicts that more than 2 billion people worldwide will own at least one smartphone in 2015, while Forrester Research forecasts...

Over two-thirds of Smart TV owners “regular app users”

App developers are increasingly targeting Smart TV platforms as their next significant growth area as nearly 80% of owners in the US regularly use apps on them, according to Parks Associates, which...