In July, BIA/Kelsey projected that OTT homes — or those services providing linear and nonlinear video services over third-party bandwidth to the TV — will exceed cable homes by 2013. A February IMS Research report on “Internet Video to the TV” pegged 78 percent global growth in OTT devices, with 25 percent of American households able to display Internet video on TVs.

After a flurry of new releases and partnership agreements, device makers, middleware companies and content providers are catching up to — and justifying — these forecasts.

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