November 7, 2012, LONDON: Nearly 600 million televisions will be connected to the Internet by 2017, which is up from the 212 million expected at the end of this year, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.
The Connected TV Forecasts report, which covers 40 countries, finds that this global connected-TV total translates to 21.4 percent of all TV sets by 2017. This is up from the 4.7 percent recorded at the end of 2010 and the 8.9 percent forecast for the end of 2012.
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