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In-Depth Analysis: Networked Media Devices Complement Growing Media Center PCs to Enable the Next Generation Digital Home
In-Stat/MDR, Dec 2006, Pages: 72
Home networks are moving slowly from only broadband sharing to other activities. The next phase moves the home network to a multimedia network that blends in consumer electronics devices. Networked media devices are still far away from the average mainstream digital home. In fact, most home networks are still only used to share Internet access. Microsoft, Intel, and AMD have taken the next steps toward enabling this next phase by creating platforms and ecosystems that are designed to offer greater ease of consumer digital media consumption for all the digital video, photos, and music that consumers are amassing by sharing this content with devices they are familiar with, like the TV and stereo, in addition to creating content partnerships that make accessing Internet content on these devices easy.
Worldwide forecasts through 2010 for each market segment are provided, from Consumer PCs to non-PC network-enabled stationary media devices. Each device type forecast provides network-enabled units and segmentations for wired only and wireless. Included is the worldwide installed base of home networks and those networks with PC and CE devices. Details are provided for PCs with a Media Center-enabled OS, Basic Media Servers, Media Center PCs with a Media Center-enabled OS and TV Tuner, Non-PC Devices w/Embedded Media Servers, and Total Media Server-Capable Devices. Consumer survey results related to digital home multimedia networking are also included.
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