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Samsung Electronics announced its plans to further expand its UHD ecosystem by working with global content partners to help accelerate consumer adoption and access to UHD content.

Nine out of 10 Britons still regularly watch linear TV on the main screen, while 85% prefer the TV to other screens available to them, according to research commissioned by playout technology provider Broadstream Solutions.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. has green-lighted IBM’s sale of its low-end server division to PC maker Lenovo.

Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has set a new broadband speed record of 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) using traditional copper telephone lines and a prototype technology that demonstrates how existing copper access networks can be used to deliver 1Gbps symmetrical ultra-broadband access services.

Focusing on the growing impact of the Video On Demand (VOD) platform on the media landscape, Nielsen’s Q1 2014 Cross-Platform Report reflects that VOD users of all ethnicities actually watch more TV—live or time-shifted – than non-VOD users. Overall, people in VOD homes, watch an hour and five minutes of live television per day compared to the fifty-four minutes of live TV time among non-VOD users. This was found to be true over all VOD platforms measured by Nielsen.

European pay-TV revenues will reach $40.35 billion in 2014, up from $36.87 billion in 2010, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The European Digital TV Databook (covering 39 countries) reveals that the 2014 total will only increase by 0.6% on 2013 as ARPUs are hit by competition and the transition of subscribers to double-play and triple-play bundles (which result in higher overall ARPUs for operators but lower TV ARPUs).

Amazon Instant Video today announced that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage.

Viaccess-Orca (VO) is set to acquire the SecurePlayer business from Discretix Technologies. The deal is expected to close in early Q2, 2014. SecurePlayer is a multiplatform media player, available for Android and iOS tablets and smartphones, that incorporates digital rights management (DRM) for premium VOD and live content.

Interesting statistics from The NPD Group’s latest Connected Intelligence Apllications and Convergence Report, which reports that OTT is the leading manner of accessing video content on connected TVs for 18-34 year-olds.

More than seven in 10 consumers now watch TV on mobile devices and on the move, a new study from Ericsson ConsumerLab says.

The global smart set-top box and dongle market will pass 18 million units in 2013, higher than originally forecasted, thanks to the arrival of Google’s Chromecast dongle to the market, new research predicts.

Young US adults still living in the parental home are more likely to subscribe to an online video service like Netflix or Hulu Plus when they move out than take a «legacy pay-TV» service such as cable or satellite new research claims.

The HbbTV Consortium, founded to drive development of the pan-European connected TV specification HbbTV, is planning to launch a strategic marketing campaign to promote the standard on a worldwide basis.

Operator group Vodafone has had a €7.7bn bid for Kabel Deutschland approved by the German cable group’s board. The board will now recommend the firm’s shareholders accept the offer.

US cableco Time Warner Cable has launched a new application for Samsung Smart TVs that makes its video-on-demand library available to customers without the need for a set-top box.