According to new global research from Irdeto, many consumers would consider changing their primary TV service to an a la carte model to avoid paying for bundles which include channels they don’t watch. The research reinforces a growing consumer trend and reveals that 42% of U.K. consumers, 46% in Australia, 54% in Singapore and 58% in the U.S. would be interested in changing their current TV service to a package where they could select the specific channels and content that they wanted to watch.

Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT)  has released the Complete Ultra HD (UHD) Guidebook, providing industry professionals with a free reference tool for understanding next-generation video. 

Created in collaboration with Dolby® and The Diffusion Group® (TDG), Harmonic's new guidebook offers a detailed examination of the technological innovations and standards that are defining UHD video and audio, as well as a realistic assessment of the market dynamics that will determine the pace at which UHD matures and diffuses.

NSR’s Maritime Satcom Markets, 3rd Edition, released today, finds a steady up-tick of activity across the maritime satcom markets – from new-build vessels coming online over the next ten years, to focusing on improving remote operations on existing vessels.  Already close to a $2 Billion opportunity across the merchant, passenger, offshore and fishing markets, the maritime SATCOM market will grow to almost $5.2 Billion in retail revenues by 2024.

Parks Associates announced new research today showing 27% of U.S. broadband households now own a streaming media device and nearly 90% of these households have these devices connected to the Internet. The firm’s Q1 2015 consumer survey reveals more consumers bought a streaming media device than a Blu-ray player in the last 12 months and these devices have the highest connection rate among the top CE categories.

By comparison, 77% of the households with a smart TV and less than 50% of those with a Blu-ray player have those devices connected.

Despite signs of market maturity, cord-cutting is not expected to make much of an impact in Western Europe, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Western Europe Forecasts report (which covers 18 countries) states that pay TV penetration is expected to grow from 56.7% at end-2014 to 60.4% in 2020.

In fact, the number of pay TV subscribers will climb by 2.57 million in 2015 to 99.00 million (up from 92.86 million in 2010) as Western Europe begins to shrug off the recession.