DALLAS, USA: Consumer demand for digital media and online content will push worldwide annual sales of connected CE to more than 100 million units by 2013, according to the new Parks Associates report: Home Networks for Consumer Electronics.
The market for connected CE includes networked TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, home media servers, and set-top boxes. Through network and Internet connections, these devices can access and display home network content such as photos and music and retrieve online content such as widgets, games, and video from Hulu and YouTube.
"Key consumer trends are aligning to drive this market,” said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks Associates. “People want whole-home access to their personal content, which will increase the storage needs of the average US household to a terabyte. At the same time, consumers are very interested in bringing Internet content to the television. For devices to offer a compelling value proposition, they will have to feature connectivity within the home network and to the services coming to the home.”
Diverse user scenarios create multiple challenges for technology developers, according to Scherf, including interface design as well as connectivity.
“Connected CE use cases will include access to many different services and types of content, including video, gaming, user-generated content, music, social networks, and customer care,” Scherf said. “Interface design will be an important area as users will need easy access to their content and services.”
Source: Park Associates
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Home networks for CE
DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Home Networks for Consumer Electronics 2Q 2009" report to its offering.
This report examines the catalysts and inhibitors for connected consumer electronics. It specifically focuses on the key technology components -- including home networking, media processing, and device discovery and media server software. The report also provides definitions and profiles of various CE devices and includes worldwide forecasts.
"Several factors are driving the connected consumer electronics market, but none is more significant than the rise of premium access content services -- such as multichannel television and broadband Internet offerings -- and the continued trend of centralized digital media in the home," said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates. "The pace of product and service development in this space will grow more intense as the market is joined in force by CE manufacturers, service providers, retailers, and the content industry."
This report examines the catalysts and inhibitors for connected consumer electronics. It specifically focuses on the key technology components -- including home networking, media processing, and device discovery and media server software. The report also provides definitions and profiles of various CE devices and includes worldwide forecasts.
"Several factors are driving the connected consumer electronics market, but none is more significant than the rise of premium access content services -- such as multichannel television and broadband Internet offerings -- and the continued trend of centralized digital media in the home," said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates. "The pace of product and service development in this space will grow more intense as the market is joined in force by CE manufacturers, service providers, retailers, and the content industry."
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