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lundi 14 juin 2010

VOD : 70 % de locations de plus en un an

 

vidéo à la demande (VOD) et la télévision de rattrapage ont de plus en plus la faveur des Français. Selon un baromètre réalisé par l'institut GfK et le cabinet NPA sur le premier trimestre 2010, le nombre de films loués a bondi de 70 % par rapport à la même période l'année dernière. Le marché devrait peser 150 millions d'euros cette année.

La baisse des prix moyens par titre a probablement favorisé cette explosion, tout comme un enrichissement de l'offre. Car les consommateurs ont surtout recours à la VOD pour voir des films de cinéma, qui représentent les trois quarts des transactions. Le secteur a fait des efforts pour leur offrir davantage de nouveautés. Sur les cinq premiers mois de l'année, 26 % des films qui avaient atteint le délai légal pour être exploités en VOD (quatre mois après leur sortie en salle) rejoignaient le catalogue. Si l'on ne retient que les dix plus gros succès en salle, ce chiffre grimpe à 37 %.

Les magazines sont les leaders de la télévision de rattrapage

Loin derrière le cinéma, les adeptes de la VOD choisissent des films de fiction et des séries TV (5 % du marché), puis viennent les programmes pour la  jeunesse (2 % du marché) et les documentaires (1,5 % du marché).

Le Top 5

Le Top 5

Des programmes consultés en catch-up TV en mai 2010 (source Myskreen).

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C'est un programme très différent que regardent les adeptes de la télévision de rattrapage, un autre univers en plein essor de la consommation de vidéo. Précisions que l'offre de cinéma est quasi absente de ce mode de diffusion. Ce sont les magazines de société et d'information qui font les plus gros cartons.

Selon le baromètre de catch-up TV réalisé par Myskreen et NPA Conseil, les programmes les plus demandés au cours du mois de mai sont : Envoyé spécial sur France 2, Des racines et des ailes sur France 3 et Enquête de santé sur France 5. Viennent ensuite les programmes de fiction (Vidocq et Joséphine, ange gardien sur TF1), les documentaires et les programmes de divertissement.

VOD : 70 % de locations de plus en un an

lundi 7 juin 2010

S a t C e s c - La web de la televisión vía satélite desde 1997

 

A finales de marzo de este año el número de suscriptores a la televisión vía ssatélite en el país luso se situaba en 654.000, según Anacom, el organismo regulador del medios de Portugal.

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Esta cifra representa un aumento de 9.000 abonados respecto al primer trimestre del  año anterior (1,4% más) y un aumento de casi 74.000 en el período correspondiente de 2009 (12,7% más).

Según Anacom, el número de clientes a la televisión de pago satelital viene motivado  principalmente por un aumento en el número de abonados al operador PT Comunicações, especialmente en las regiones del norte y centro de Portugal.

Los abonados de la zona central y norte del país representan el 64% del número total de suscriptores de la televisión vía satélite en Portugal.

La plataforma Zon TV Cabo, propiedad de Zon Multimedia, sigue liderando la televisión de pago por satélite en el país compitiendo con Meo Satélite. Ambas operadoras distribuye sus canales de televisión a través de la posición orbital de 30º Oeste de los satélites Hispasat 1C e Hispasat 1D.

S a t C e s c - La web de la televisión vía satélite desde 1997

La Corée du Sud peut voir la TV Câblée sur Internet via ‘Tving’ « Akihabara News

 

Internet via ‘Tving’

Category: Home Entertainment - Tags: Cable TV, CJ Hello Vision, Internet, IP TV, Tving

Cable TV on internet

C’est hier que CJ Hello Vision, une chaîne câblée en Corée du Sud, a annoncé qu’elle allait lancer un service permettant de profiter de 53 chaînes TV du câble via Internet, ainsi que de la vidéo à la demande.
Appelé ‘Tving’, ce service offrirait une meilleure qualité que l’IPTV, et coûterait environ 3500 won, soit 2.35€ par mois.
D’ores et déjà disponible sur des appareils tels que des ordinateurs portables, PC de bureau, une version mobile devrait également être développée.

La Corée du Sud peut voir la TV Câblée sur Internet via ‘Tving’ « Akihabara News

Portugal : 2.6 millions d'abonnés à la TV payante

 

Au Portugal, à la fin du premier trimestre 2010, il y avait 2.6 millions abonnés à un service de télévision payante.

Cela représente une augmentation de 69.000 abonnés en un trimestre et 277.000 de plus en un an.

Zon représente 62.5% du marché mais a perdu 1.9% en un trimestre.

Son concurrent Meo représente désormais 25% du marché.

20% des abonnements à un bouquet Tv passe par la fibre optique.

A fin mars 2010, 654.000 foyers accédaient à la télévision payante par satellite, soit 9000 de plus en un trimestre et 74.000 de plus en un an.

C'est toujours TV Cabo qui domine le marché mais là encore Meo satellite monte en puissance.

http://www.satmag.fr/affichage_module.php?no_theme=1&no_news=12360&id_mod=50

mardi 25 mai 2010

La televisión portuguesa Zon TV Cabo supera el 1,5 millones de abonados

 

Este dato corresponde a la cartera de clientes que capta la señal televisiva tanto a través del satélite Hispasat como los que lo hacen por otros medios como es el caso de la potenter ed de cable del país luso.

A finales del pasado mes de marzo, el operador portugués ZON TV disponía de un total de 1.588.000 clientes abonados a los distintos servicios de la televisión de pago, computándose los que lo son de las redes de cable y las de vía satélite. Esta cifra ratfica el liderazgo de la plataforma en Portugal.

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De este 1,6 millones de suscriptores, unos 412.000 lo son de la oferta de la televisión vía satélite, una cifra que ha descendido en 2.000 con respecto al anterior trimestre. De hecho, en el cómputo general, Zon TV Cabo ha registrado un ligero descenso del 0,4% en la cartera de clientes.

A pesar de esto, los datos demuestran una vez más la importante vinculación y aceptación que tienen las redes de cable en Portugal con respecto a la televisión vía satélite, algo muy distinto de lo que ocurre por ejemplo en España.

Zon TV Cabo (antes TV Cabo) utiliza la posición orbital de los 30º Oeste de Hispasat para distribuir su oferta de canales de televisión codificados bajo el sistema de acceso condicional Nagravisión.

S a t C e s c - La web de la televisión vía satélite desde 1997

La cartera de clientes de la televisión de ONO se mantiene estable

 

La televisión de pago del operador de cable contaba a 31 de marzo con 970.000 abonados frenando así la caída que venía manteniendo en los últimos meses.

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Por segmento de negocios, la base de clientes de la compañía creció en 9.000 clientes respecto al trimestre anterior en el segmento de Telefonía y en 17.000 usuarios en servicios de acceso a Internet, aunque recortó su base de clientes en Televisión en 5.000 clientes.

En este sentido, la firma precisó que mejoró la captación en los paquetes de mayor valor para el cliente, ‘Extra’ y ‘Total’, frente a la reducción experimentada en el paquete más bajo de su oferta, ‘TV Esencial’.

En cuanto a la base de clientes, el grupo finalizó el periodo con un total de 4,13 millones de servicio –lo que incluye accesos de telefonía, banda ancha y televisión–. En el periodo enero-marzo la firma captó 30.000 nuevos clientes.

S a t C e s c - La web de la televisión vía satélite desde 1997

800.000 estadounidenses abandonan la TV por cable y se pasan a Internet

 

Más de 800.000 hogares estadounidenses han cambiado la televisión por cable o por satélite para pasarse a los contenidos vía Internet en los dos últimos años. La cifra, que aún supone tan sólo un pequeño porcentaje del total de hogares, es significativa. Sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que, según la consultora Convergence Consulting Group que ha realizado el estudio, para finales del próximo año esta cifra de “teleinternautas” se habrá doblado, llegando a los 1.600.000 usuarios.

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En Estados Unidos hay cerca de 101 millones de suscriptores a servicios de televisión por cable o satélite. De ellos tan sólo el 3% han abandonado la tele de pago para pasarse a Internet. Sin embargo, otro 17% de este total de suscriptores ya ven al menos dos capítulos de sus series de TV favoritas a través de servicios de televisión online como Hulu o Netflix. El año pasado este porcentaje de teleinternautas ocasionales era del 12% y se prevé que el año que viene la tendencia siga al alza hasta llegar a un 21%.

Las razones para este salto a lo digital son variadas. Según el estudio, la mayor parte de suscriptores a servicios de televisión por cable o satélite acaban cansándose de pagar por 800 canales cuando en realidad sólo ven 20 ó 30. Por otra parte, la oferta televisiva actual estadounidense (no hablemos ya de la española, que clama al cielo) no es precisamente un dechado de calidad. En este sentido, Internet ofrece la posibilidad de elegir con precisión qué queremos ver y qué no.

Otro de los factores que inciden en esta tendencia es que es mucho más sencillo acceder, de forma ubicua, a contenidos televisivos desde el ordenador que desde el televisor. Los portátiles, cada vez más abundantes, permiten ver un programa desde cualquier parte sin tener que apoltronarnos en el sofá.

Otro dato destacable del estudio de Convergence consulting Group es que, contrariamente a lo que pudiera pensarse, el modelo de televisión por Internet más utilizado en Estados Unidos es el de contenidos gratis a cambio de publicidad (el mismo modelo que el que tiene, por ejemplo, Spotify). Sistemas de pago como Apple TV crecen a un ritmo mucho menor. En 2008, las descargas de programas de TV en AppleTV alcanzaron los 90 millones de programas. En 2009 sólo subieron hasta 100 millones, lo que supone un beneficio aún moderado de 200 millones de dólares. Los beneficios generados por los anuncios de TV online sólo alcanzaron 1.560 millones de dólares. Nada comparado con los 62.000 millones de dólares que consigue la publicidad en televisión tradicional.

A la luz de estas cifras, la fuga de los espectadores a Internet es una mala noticia para los grandes grupos que operan los canales de televisión. Por estas tierras, los servicio de TV online aún brillan por su ausencia, y para lo que echan, casi es mejor que no los cuelguen en Internet.

S a t C e s c - La web de la televisión vía satélite desde 1997

mercredi 19 mai 2010

Numericable et la 3D

 

Hier, dans notre article « Orange sera la première en 3D », nous écrivions que Numericable pourrait facilement diffuser de la 3D mais il n’en a visiblement pas les moyens financiers.

Réaction évidente du câblo-opérateur qui nous demande si nous avons lu leurs récents communiqués dont celui indiquant qu'afin de  promouvoir la TV 3D en France, il s’alliait à Panasonic, Cisco, Nagravision et Sagemcom au sein de la 3D-HD Alliance.

Mais cet accord va lui permettre de proposer une offre de VOD (vidéo à la demande) et non pas dans un premier temps, des programmes de télévision en direct.

Si nous avons écrit qu’il n’en a visiblement pas les moyens financiers, ce n’est pas négatif, mais c’est plutôt en comparaison avec Orange, une très grosse entreprise qui a les moyens de financer elle-même des programmes sans un retour sur investissement rapide.

Quoi que, Stéphane Richard, directeur général de France Télécom a confié hier à La Tribune que "Nous ne sommes pas encore au clair sur la question de la télévision et des droits sportifs.
Nous y travaillons pour arrêter notre position d'ici un mois, avec une option lourde à prendre."

Il est par contre probable que Canal+ va être le deuxième à lancer une chaîne en 3D et là, Numericable pourra la diffuser.

http://www.satmag.fr/affichage_module.php?no_theme=1&no_news=12274&id_mod=50

mardi 18 mai 2010

UK: Online video viewing rises 37%, a newcomer enters the market « dataxis

 

http://www.hd-report.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/virgin-media-logo.jpgAccording to digital measuring company Comscore, 5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the U.K. in February 2010, up 37 percent versus the previous year.

Google Sites grew 17 percent versus a year ago, enabling Youtube to further solidify its position as the leading online video viewing property in the U.K., with 2.5 billion videos viewed in February 2010. BBC Sites ranked second with 140 million videos viewed on its sites followed by Megavideo.com with 53 million videos.

Facebook ranked as the fastest growing video property in the top 10, surging 205 percent in the past year to 43 million videos viewed. Blinkx was the second fastest, growing 204 percent to nearly 29 million videos viewed. BBC Sites (up 143 percent), ITV sites (up 134 percent) and Sky Sites (up 139 percent) also achieved triple-digit growth rates over the past year.

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On the other hand, a newcomer has just entered the British online video landscape. Cable giant and UK ISP Virgin Media has today announced the launch of its internet based broadband movies service – Virgin Media Online Movies. Customers will be able to stream their choice of film on-demand directly to computers. Non-customers will also be allowed to do so.

UK: Online video viewing rises 37%, a newcomer enters the market « dataxis

KDG trims subscriber base | Broadband TV News

 

The loss of low ARPU subscribers and adjustments following the Orion Cable acquisition reduced the number of subscribers at Kabel Deutschland in the financial year ending March 31, 2010.

Germany’s largest cable operator recorded a loss of 33,000 direct subscribers on the year to 7.47 million. Total customers, including indirect subscribers fell by 222,000 year-on-year.

However, while KDG might have lost the opportunity to market some households that in reality were never going to help the balance sheet, premium TV RGUs increased by 111,000 (11.5%) to reach 1,073,000.

Subscribers now take an average of 1.35 RGUs, compared to 1.27 at March 31, 2009.

Kabel Deutschland’s full financial statements will be released on June 1, 2010.

KDG trims subscriber base | Broadband TV News

Kabel Deutschland: April 26, 2010

 

Unterfoehring, April 26, 2010 – Stock listed Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, Germany’s largest cable operator, announced today its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the end of its fiscal year 2009/2010, March 31, 2010.

  • Total direct subscribers reach 7.47 million on March 31, 2010, down approximately 33 thousand from previous year primarily related to one time adjustments related to the Orion acquisition and final integration. On a pro-forma basis for these adjustments total direct subscribers increased by 16 thousand during the fiscal year end March 31, 2010.
  • As expected, total subscribers decreased by approximately 222 thousand year over year mainly from the loss in the low ARPU indirect subscriber segment.
  • Internet and phone subscribers grow by approximately 291 thousand year over year and 68 thousand in the fourth quarter, up 36.1%, and 6.6% respectively, in line with guidance of the Company.
  • Internet and phone RGUs(1) grow by 556 thousand units compared to March 31, 2009 and reach 1,974 thousand, a 39.2% increase over prior year. In the last quarter, Internet and phone RGUs increased by approximately 130 thousand units, up 7% from December 31, 2009.
    966 thousand RGUs are from the Internet services sector (previous year 708 thousand), 1,008 thousand RGUs from the phone services sector (previous year 710 thousand).
  • Homes passed being marketed upgraded for two-way communication(2) for Kabel Deutschland’s Kabel Internet & Kabel Phone services increase from 8.58 million to 9.52 million on March 31, 2010, up 11.0% or 940 thousand from previous year. In the fourth quarter alone, Kabel Deutschland opened 420 thousand to that base allowing Kabel Deutschland to sell its attractive products to more households than ever.
  • Premium TV RGUs(3) increase by approximately 111 thousand units year over year reaching 1,073 thousand on March 31, 2010, up 11.5% from previous year.
  • New Services RGUs(4) (Premium TV, Internet and Phone) comprise 25.3% of total RGUs compared to 20.5% in the previous year.
  • Total RGUs amount to 12.05 million on March 31, 2010, up 3.6% or approximately 421 thousand from previous year’s 11.63 million.
  • Subscribers now take an average 1.35 RGUs compared to 1.27 as of March 31, 2009 and compared to 1.33 as of December 31, 2009.

Summarizing the KPIs, Kabel Deutschland again underlined its successful business model with sustainable growth in a highly competitive market.

The preliminary full fiscal year 2009/2010 financials ended March 31, 2010 for consolidated Kabel Deutschland Holding AG will be released on June 1, 2010.

Kabel Deutschland: April 26, 2010

Telenet surpasses 1 million digital homes | Broadband TV News

 

Telenet had 1,065,000 digital homes as of March 31, 2010 but is still losing basic analogue subscribers. This is mainly due to the fierce competition from Belgacom, which offers ‘free’ TV with a number of its broadband and telephony packages.

During the first quarter, a record number 144,000 new customers were recorded by the cabler. Digital TV added 65,000 homes, while 34,000 more took broadband, 23,000 mobile and 22,000 fixed telephony.

The loss of 24,000 basic analogue subscribers was in line with expectations, according to Telenet CEO Duco Sickinghe, who said it was more than offset by in other areas. More than 53% of all subscribers took more than one product from Telenet. Average ARPU of digital and mulitplay customers rose to €37.70 during the quarter.

Telenet surpasses 1 million digital homes | Broadband TV News

Multimedia rolls out advanced network | Broadband TV News

 

The Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska has rolled out a fibre-optic network employing Passive Optical Network (PON) technology in the town of Jasla.

The technology has the potential of providing internet access of up to 1 Gbps and a nearly unlimited number of HD channels. Initially, however, all its subscribers will be given access to IPTV, VOD and internet access of up to 20 Mbps.

Multimedia Polska is the third largest provider of cable services in Poland after UPC and Vectra.

Multimedia rolls out advanced network | Broadband TV News

UPC Romania ups the ante | Broadband TV News

 

UPC Romania has stepped up its efforts to secure more digital customers in a move that is likely to further intensify the price war with its competitors.

ZF reports that the company has introduced a subscription that gives access to 82 digital TV channels for a monthly fee of RON27.37 (€5.61) a month, including tax.

This is a similar price to that currently being charged for analogue TV services. What is more, UPC subscribers who switch from analogue to digital are being offered a 50% discount on digital packages for four months.

UPC Romania already offers cheaper analogue cable TV packages than either of its two main competitors, RCS/RDS and Romtelecom’s subsidiary NextGen.

UPC Romania ups the ante | Broadband TV News

Russian digital transition rules take shape | Broadband TV News

 

The Russian Communications Ministry has submitted a bill to the country’s parliament (Duma) designed to ensure the legal conditions for the introduction of digital TV.

AKTA reports that it establishes a package of channels, carried on the first multiplex, that will be made available free of charge to all viewers during the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. They include Channel One, Rossiya, Rossiya-2, Rossiya-Kultura, NTV and the Fifth Channel, as well as the radio stations Mayak, Radio Rossiya and Vesti FM. All have to be distributed nationally irrespective of delivery method, be it terrestrial, cable or satellite.

Operators who try to charge for these channels risk losing their licences. However, they will be allowed to charge a fee for the transmission of other channels such as CTC, TNT, Ren TV and MTV.

Russian digital transition rules take shape | Broadband TV News

Romtelecom cable deal details emerge | Broadband TV News

 

Further financial details have begun to emerge about Romtelecom’s re-entry into the Romanian cable market.

According to ZF, the deal resulting in the telco securing networks from New Com serving 70,000 subscribers will see the latter’s general manager Mircea Lucacal obtain €220,000 for his 5% stake and Capital Partners €50,000 for their 3.6% stake.

Romtelecom’s subsidiary Nextgen, along with RCS/RDS, initially acquired networks from New Com serving at total of 60,000 subscribers in the first half of last year.

The latest deal, though announced late last year, has yet to receive approval from the Competition Council and is believed to be worth around €14 million.

Romtelecom cable deal details emerge | Broadband TV News

Latvian cableco secures more funding | Broadband TV News

 

Contaq Latvian Participation has raised its investment in the Latvian cable operator Izzi by €2.625 million to €27 million. According to DB, the money will be directed mostly to existing capacity.

Contaq is one of four investors in Izzi, the others being Argus Capital Group, Syntaxis Capital and Tiroler Elekronik.

Izzi had an estimated turnover of €12 million in 2009. It ended the year with 125,000 subscribers, and the number receiving its digital service tripled during the year

Latvian cableco secures more funding | Broadband TV News

Boom time for Russian pay-TV | Broadband TV News

 

Russia’s pay-TV market enjoyed another good year in 2009 despite the economic crisis, with the number of subscribers rising by 16% to 19 million.

Data produced by iKS-Consulting and published by RBK Daily also shows that the market grew in value by 18% last year to reach R27 billion (€687.2 million).

Satellite operators were the main drivers for growth and saw their share of the market grow from 23% to 27%.

Pay-TV penetration in Russia stood at 36% in 2009, while the five leading players in the market claimed a combined subscriber share of 35%.

The five leading pay-TV companies in descending order were Tricolor, NTK, Comstar-UTS, ER-Telecom and Multiregion.

Tricolor is one of the fastest growing DTH platforms in Europe and according to iKS-Consulting had almost 4.3 million subscribers at year’s end. All four others are cable operators.

Boom time for Russian pay-TV | Broadband TV News

Dominican Republic prepares new regulation for Pay-TV operators

 

The Dominican Republic Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (Indotel) started a public consultation process aimed at drawing up a new "Regulation for Pay-TV services". Such consultation will be opened over a month, and later, comments will be analyzed and the regulating agency will call for a public hearing that will enable companies and individuals to present and support their arguments before the Board. Once this process is finished, the definite norm will be drawn up.

At present, the country relies on its Cable Services Regulation that is aimed at regulating only one broadcasting technology type, leaving aside those services that, though not rendered exclusively through cable or optic fiber networks, they share Pay-TV features thus making them easy to assimilate. The new regulation is aimed at widening the present regulation scope and to regulate Pay-TV services regardless of the technology to be utilized. 

The discussion will also help to become aware of local channels' rebroadcasting obligation, posed to cable TV licensees. For the regulator, the "Must Carry" constitutes "one of the main and controversial points when analyzing Pay-TV services". In this sense, Codetel and Sky believe that DTH operators' "Must Carry" obligation is a "technically complex and economically unsustainable measure for the market".

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Future for on-demand channels? | Broadband TV News

 

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“At the moment people who have an interest in niche channels are under served by the cable operators, ” said Yoram Levi, Manager Content, Ziggo, speaking at the Kabelraden congress.

A solution would be to introduce ‘channels on demand’ alongside VOD, which is now made possible by technical developments. “This would be a very good way to serve niche audiences using the network in the most efficient way.”

Ziggo and UPC, the two largest cable operators in The Netherlands, are quickly expanding their respective VOD offers with Ziggo offering premium movies on-demand from all major studios.

At UPC Nederland, plans are under way to bring HD on-demand as well as even more channel-branded content. Bringing web TV to the regular TV screen is also part of the strategy, said Dennis Bekenkamp, UPC, but the exact way how to make this a reality is still ‘work in progress’.

Future for on-demand channels? | Broadband TV News

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