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Twenty-five percent of the HDTVs that ship worldwide this year will be capable of connecting to the Internet, according to research firm Parks Associates.

From the article "Yahoo gets new rivals for Connected TV" by James Niccolai

Two research firms - Park Associates and Entertainment Technology Center at USC - have released a white paper, How Hollywood Can out-Apple Apple explaining what film moguls need to do if they want to ride the crest of the digital convergence wave.

"Hollywood - ...read more

The evolution of the digital home will drive a new industry in support services worth nearly one billion dollars by 2011, new research claims.

Citing research across the US market, Parks Associates predicts support services for troubleshooting and repair will more than - ...read more

Analyst firm Parks Associates CEO Tricia Parks says: "We forecast music downloads, online radio and music-subscription services at close to $1 billion in 2006 for the US alone. We forecast that amount to increase in the US to over $3 billion - ...read more

Annual sales of home media servers will reach nearly 50 million units in the US by the end of 2010, according to Parks Associates.

A new report 'Media Servers: Analysis and Forecasts' finds that demand- and supply-side drivers will spur dramatic sales growth. The report - ...read more

Internet advertising spending will double by 2010, claim researchers at Parks Associates.

A new report - 'The Changing Face of Advertising in the Digital Age' - claims spending on Internet ads will account for 10 per cent of all US ad dollars in 2010, from 5 per cent in - ...read more

The markets for MP3 players in China and South Korea, with nearly 80 per cent of future purchases coming from existing owners, have matured faster than those in the rest of the world, analysts claim.

Parks Associates' new report "Digital Music and Portable MP3 - ...read more

In a report yesterday, analysts at Parks Associates described a significant reduction in the monthly tariff as "key" for the success of such services, as offered by Napster.

In fact, prices will have to fall significantly for them to succeed - to "below $10 - ...read more

Parks Associates reckons U.S. consumers are "not overwhelmingly antagonistic" toward copy-protected CDs, apparently.

However, given several years of consumer education by the recording industry, the results (derived from a survey the size of which has not been - ...read more

Mercury News reports that woe continues at Apple's competitor: "Napster is losing money, and top executives have left the company, including its president, chief financial officer, vice president of programming and head of corporate communications as well as a key board - ...read more