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More than 60 percent of home audio products sold in 2016 will ship with embedded networking solutions such as DLNA and Apple's AirPlay, driven by consumers who frequently use tablets to listen to music at home, a Parks Associates study forecasts.

With more than 60 percent of U.S. tablet owners using their tablet on a weekly basis to listen to music, - ...read more

According to a Parks Associates forecast, more than 27 million smart TVs are expected to be in U.S. homes by year's end, growing to 42.6 million, or 36 percent of U.S. homes, by the end of 2012, and 57 percent of TV homes by the end of 2013.

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Final results will go beyond these numbers when all data is collected, compiled and analyzed sometime in the fourth quarter by Parks Associates, said CEDIA market research manager Erica Shonkwiler. The numbers will include channel-wide unit and dollar shipments based on sales data supplied in confidence by suppliers and distributors. The shipment data will be broken - ...read more

Tablet PC penetration has reached 13 percent of broadband-owning U.S. households, according to a Parks survey.

The research firm said this level of adoption, which equals about 10.5 million homes, is having a serious negative impact on other mobile Internet devices, such - ...read more

Internet radio listening spread to 39 percent of all U.S. broadband households by early 2011, and smartphones account for a significant portion of their Internet radio listening, a Parks Associates survey found.

Among the adult Internet radio listeners surveyed, 96 percent - ...read more

Three-fourths of surveyed systems integrators expect their residential-install revenues to grow this year, up from only a third who said their businesses grew in 2009, according to a fourth-quarter survey by Parks Associates and the Custom Electronic Design & Installation - ...read more

According to a new survey by Parks Associates, a market research firm and consultancy based here, CE spending has fallen below 2008 and 2007 levels, as recession-wary consumers continue to put off purchases.

"In general, U.S. consumers who are buying are - ...read more

The majority of home systems integrators still in business have suffered average revenue declines of about 17 percent since 2007, but things would have been a lot worse had it not been for their pursuit of the retrofit market, a Parks Associates/CEDIA survey found. The - ...read more

Wireless has come of age as a reliable way to replace HDMI video cables within a room and transmit HD video throughout the house, advocates of competing solutions said during a Parks Associates seminar here.

Panelists, however, were split over whether consumers are - ...read more

"By 2012, smartphones, cellular phones, PDAs and portable media players (PMPs) combined will overtake PNDs in GPS sales, according to Parks Associates. Currently there are 3 to 4 million regular users of GPS via smartphones, cellular phones, PDAs and (PMPs) in North America - ...read more