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Multiroom DVR: The Entertainment Network Comes Home
Competition will spur cablecos, satellite vendors, and telcos to deploy
entertainment networking solutions
Cable and satellite television providers will step up deployment of
multiroom DVR (digital video recorder) solutions starting in 2005 such
that the number of units will exceed 25 million in 2009, according to
Parks Associates. Companies will deploy these mass-market entertainment
networking solutions in limited numbers in 2005, but penetration will grow
to approximately 16 million U.S. households by the end of 2009.
“Just as TiVo Inc. and its ilk introduced ‘time-shifting’ to the
consumption of television content, multiroom DVR solutions will offer
‘place-shifting’ capabilities,” said
Kurt Scherf,
vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates. “Recorded
programming will be available throughout the home as these devices bring
new levels of convenience and flexibility to TV use.”
In addition to set-top box developers and manufacturers and their cable
and satellite partners, home networking chipset developers will gain
significantly from the aggressive deployment of multiroom DVR solutions,
according to Scherf.
“The home networking industry hopes to expand the notion of
connectivity beyond broadband connections and PC-centric content,” Scherf
said. “This year holds many opportunities for players developing
technologies using wireless, powerline, phoneline, and coaxial networking
solutions as they are applied to multiroom DVR solutions.”
In early 2005, Parks Associates is launching two new primary consumer
research studies,
Digital Entertainment: Changing Consumer Habits and
Mobile Entertainment Platforms & Services, which will focus on how
consumers interact with and use digital media, including recorded
television programming, digital music, gaming, and personal and
self-created content. The studies will focus on the ways in which
consumers will seek to “place-shift” their content in both home and mobile
ecosystems. For more information about
Digital Entertainment: Changing Consumer Habits and
Mobile Entertainment Platforms & Services, please contact Parks
Associates at 972-490-1113 or
sales@parksassociates.com.
About Parks Associates: Parks Associates is an
internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing
in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks
Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to
small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research,
custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service
subscriptions.
The company's expertise includes new media, digital
entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services,
digital health, mobile applications and services, consumer electronics, and home
control systems and security.
Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought
leadership conferences CONNECTIONS™, with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), and CONNECTIONS™ Europe. In addition, Parks
Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in
conjunction with the CONNECTIONS™ Conference series.
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