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There'll be more Internet-connected video devices installed globally in 2017...

There'll be more Internet-connected video devices installed globally in 2017 than there are people on the planet, said the IHS Broadband Technology Service Tuesday in a report (http://bit.ly/GL8NQz). Including tablets, smart TVs, videogame consoles, smartphones, connected set-top boxes, Blu-ray players…

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and PCs, the installed base of Internet-connected devices will swell to 8.2 billion units in 2017, from 4.3 billion in 2013, it said. With the world’s population growing to 7.4 billion people in 2017, “this means that there will be 1.1 Internet-connected video devices installed for each global citizen,” it said. “We're quickly approaching a world where the average broadband household contains 10 connected, video-enabled devices. This means that each TV set installed in a broadband-equipped home will be surrounded by three Internet-connected devices."