How Android TV finally won the set top wars – Android TV Report and Forecast 2018-2022

In September of 2016 Google launched itself back into the pay TV market with the operator edition of Android TV, a follow up to the relatively unsuccessful first effort in 2009 and the relaunched Android TV that came out in 2014.

On the back of this Google is on the verge of controlling the set tops within the pay TV set top market with Android TV.

Technicolor told us that it shipped 2 million Android TV units last year, and other sources suggest the rate of shipment of Android TV Operator edition qualified devices has already reached 1 million a month. Verimatrix tells us that it has adapted its security system for 130 set tops models to use Android since 2012, and that by the end of this quarter it will be 140.

And something like 70% of operators are looking seriously at Android TV as an option, we believe it will take any operator around 10 or 11 years to replace their entire set top population/. We forecast that a total of 99.2 million Android TV devices will ship through pay TV operators in the next five years.

Companies discussed in this report include

3 Screen Solutions, A1Austria Telekom, Accedo, Altice, Altice, Amazon, America Movil, Amino, Apple, AT&T, Baidu, Bell Canada, Bharti Airtel, Bouygues, Canal+, Charter Communications, Cisco, Com Hem, Comcast, Cox Communications, Deutsche Telekom, DirecTV, Dish Networks, Dish Mexico, DNA Oy, Ericsson, Euskaltel, Foxtel, Google, Huawei, IBM, Iliad’s Free, iWedia, KDDI, Liberty Global, Metrological, Microsoft, Nagra, Netflix, Nuance, Numericable – SFR, Orange, Oregan, PCCW, Reliance Jio, Rogers, Roku, Sagemcom, Shaw, Sky, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Televisa, Telia, Telkom Indonesia, Telus, Tencent, TiVo, Verimatrix, Wyplay, Zenterio, ZTE

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