Telecommunications

[April 20, 2012]

Research and Markets: Cord Cutting in the Digital Living Room: Fact or Fiction? - Over 400 million households worldwide to have some form of Smart TV by 2016

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2m4xf2/cord_cutting_in_th) has announced the addition of the "Cord Cutting in the Digital Living Room: Fact or Fiction?" report to their offering.

Many have advocated that over-the-top video will lead to the end of pay-TV services as we know it, but is this really the case?

Are TVs going to be replaced by computer screens, tablets and smartphones. Will consumers choose to cut the cord and replace their pay-TV provider (e.g., cable operators, satellite provider or telco) with a lower cost combination f over-the-air HD programming and internet delivered movies and TV shows? Or will, they shave the cord opting to replace higher priced digital tiers or pay channels (e.g., HBO, Showtime, Starz) with lower cost alternatives. This report examines current trends in pay-TV, the consumption of over-the-top video and the impact this will have on pay-TV providers, CE manufacturers, broadcast and cable networks, and movie and TV studios.

DFC Intelligence forecasts that the number of devices that connect television sets to the Internet will explode to over 1.5 billion worldwide by 2016, a nearly five-fold increase from where it is today. In North America alone it is forecasted that by 2016 81 million households will have a connected TV, up from 24 million at the start of 2012. North America, however, only accounts for about 20% of connected TV households and much of the growth will come from exploding global broadband penetration.

This new DFC research service launches with a series of reports including The Connected Home: The Battle for Dominance in the Digital Living Room, Cord Cutting in the Digital Living Room: Fact or Fiction? Video Game Consoles as Entertainment Hubs and a complete Excel spreadsheet with global forecasts for in-home connected devices broken down by region and device.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2m4xf2/cord_cutting_in_th

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