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Tara Patel
Research Analyst, Media Delivery
Tara joined Omdia in May 2021 as part of the Media and Entertainment team, particularly looking at TV technology and home networks. She previously worked at a technology consulting company focusing on video entertainment landscapes across countries and tracking top-performing movies. Tara has a degree in international development with economics and overseas experience from the University of East Anglia. She has also worked abroad in Cambodia and India.

Daniel Simmons
Research Director, Media Delivery
Dan heads global research on service provider set-top boxes, consumer premises equipment (CPE), content security, and user interfaces. He has extensive experience in producing custom research for all aspects of television technology, influencing the strategies of many of the sector’s largest companies.
His expertise includes a nuanced understanding of how service providers distribute content around the home, and how consumers interact with content. Dan worked previously at Mitsubishi Electric, where he designed image-processing algorithms. He is a graduate of the University of Surrey in Guildford, England, and has a Bachelor of Science in physics.
Further Reading
Repositioning the Set Top Box for a new generation of video services
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Report / 10 Feb 2022 / Tara Patel
Set-top Box (STB) Market Tracker – 3Q21
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Report / 21 Jan 2022 / Daniel Simmons
Provides quarterly and annual shipment and revenue forecast and share data for the set-top box market. Covers pay TV and free TV STBs and streaming media devices, segmented by geography and a range of technologies.
2022 Trends to Watch: Set-Top Boxes
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Report / 10 Jan 2022 / Daniel Simmons
This report investigates the key trends expected in the global set-top box market and what direction the industry will head toward in 2022 and beyond.
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