According to Parks Associates, a new crop of connected devices is coming this year. The research firm predicts 920 million connected devices to be sold in just 2012, which will include HDTVs, smartphones and tablets. When you factor in cloud-based services, the category should surpass $8.5 billion by 2015.
Besides those web-enabled devices, Parks - ...read more
Tricia Parks of research firm Parks Associates: CEBus (Consumer Electronics Bus) – [People in the industry]talked about this [networking standard] for a really long time. There were so many smart people doing so much hard, good work, but the nature of the market wouldn’t let it happen.
Will 2011 be the year home energy management finally takes off? It could well be. There are many positive signs, such as the very large fact that people want energy efficiency in their homes. There are still some factors that need to come together, such as the crucial marriage - ...read more
Everyone is cutting back these days. According to a recent survey by Parks Associates, about 66 percent of American consumers have tweaked spending habits to adjust to the current economic climate.
“For household services such as Internet and pay TV, recessionary - ...read more
Move over TiVo and Apple TV; there’s another box in town. Western Digital—you know them for portable hard drives and DVR expanders—today is launching WDTV, a recession-friendly $129 adapter box that takes media stored on a computer or portable USB drive and displays it - ...read more
A surprise to me: One-third of consumers still aren’t backing up their digital media, according to a recent study by market research firm Parks Associates ("Managing the Digital Home: Installation and Support Services.") In his May 7 blog, Parks analyst ...read more
Male heads-of-household are more likely than their female counterparts to buy a personal video recorder (PVR) over the next year, according to the upcoming report Video-on-Demand and PVR: Analysis and Forecast from Parks Associates. In a recent survey, 21 percent of male - ...read more
The standalone digital video recorder (DVR) will be supplanted by set-top recorders provided by television service providers, according to a report from Parks Associates.
The report, titled "Multimedia Networks in the Home: Analysis and Forecasts," says as - ...read more
Driven by the demand for broadband Internet and high-definition entertainment services, the market for residential gateways is expected to triple in the next five years, growing from 8.6 million units in 2001 to over 33 million units in 2005. The overall value of the market is - ...read more
According to Parks Associates, a new crop of connected devices is coming this year. The research firm predicts 920 million connected devices to be sold in just 2012, which will include HDTVs, smartphones and tablets. When you factor in cloud-based services, the category should surpass $8.5 billion by 2015.
