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Falling prices and the demand for next-generation features such as 4K and HDR continue to be the strongest drivers for smart TV sales. Even as the price of the highest-end models continues to rise as screen sizes and device sophistication at the high end continue to grow, there is falling disparity between traditional and smart TV price points at t...

Blu-ray technology vendors face significant challenges stemming from the continued momentum of over-the-top (OTT) video streaming—the fastest-growing segment of the home video market. The seemingly inevitable consumer transition from physical disc to digital video content consumption via OTT services is negatively impacting the sales of Blu-ray p...

The PC market will continue to decline over the forecast period. Market saturation in developed markets is a significant barrier to growth. Brutal price competition and ongoing pressure from competing alternative devices negatively impact the long-term market outlook. The PC market faces persistent challenges from rapidly changing consumer PC buyin...

The importance of download as a feature within OTT services and how it may be a big business opportunity for AVOD providers cannot be overstated. But this will only hold true if the technology can work seamlessly with existing apps and ad-based revenue models. More OTT services, both AVOD and SVOD, must start including downloads as an option, to en...

Many of the common problems encountered by viewers are the result of connectivity issues, especially on mobile. Globally, many viewers are plagued by problematic cellular connections that can’t support their on-demand video needs. Studies show that viewers are increasingly impatient, and the lag or buffering that results from insufficient connect...

Reducing video rebuffering can be difficult. Going multi-CDN can provide several benefits for customers, such as better geographic coverage and, possibly, better economics. Adding live switching logic between the CDNs goes a step further and enables load balancing and redundancy in case of problems. Different layers of redundancy and different leve...

Most large broadcasters and OTT services have deployed multi-CDN solutions to improve the end-user experience for video. There have been many instances where a multi-CDN strategy was a key component in the overall OTT workflow.There are a lot of different ways to implement a multi-CDN strategy and much of it is dependent on how much the customer wa...

4K and HEVC are exciting and the direction the market is headed towards, until AV1 takes their place. However, vendors, content owners and the media need to have realistic expectations of what is possible with 4K streaming and utilize accurate estimates when it comes to bitrates, costs, efficiencies, and Internet speeds. Based on the HEVC testing t...

Smart TVs are envisioned as online video consumption devices that enable centralized control of the living room entertainment experience—fragmented across smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and streaming media devices, among others. While the overall LCD TVs market has reached maturity and has been experiencing shipment declines in many regio...