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According to Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, G.hn technology has made substantial progress over last year with respect to standard development and moving toward delivering its first commercial product.

From the article, "HomeGrid Forum Sets Performance Benchmarks with G.hn Technology" by Rajini Baburajan

"Media servers have become a must-have component in high-end entertainment systems exemplifying the mass migration from the analog to the digital world," said Bill Ablondi, director of home systems for Parks Associates. "We see A/V distribution systems evolving into full-fledged, IP-based entertainment and control networks with PC-based media servers at their heart. The high-end market will be the test bed for innovations that will permeate all classes of entertainment systems." ...read more

"Icron has delivered on the long sought after promise of having access to all PC applications and Internet content on any TV in the home," stated Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates. "High definition PC video and native USB 2.0 peripheral support should help mass consumer adoption since the system does not need any configuration and has no learning curve or configuration required."
 

From the press release, "Icron Announces Wireless PC-on-TV Platf ...read more

“We think there is a significant opportunity for service providers to enhance their offerings with value-added services such as remote home control and monitoring,” said Bill Ablondi, director of home systems research at Parks Associates (News - Alert).
 

From the article, "4Home, Verizon to Demo 4G Home Control Services at CES" by Shamila Janakiraman

Park Associates, a market research and consulting company, reportedly has announced it will make a presentation on new business strategies, new technologies and growing consumer demands at the upcoming 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.

Park Associates is planning to host the fourth-annual CONNECTIONS Summit, ‘Monetizing Connectivity in the Home,” on Jan. 7, 2010. During the summit a number of marketing analysts are expected to participate and cover events under to ...read more

Researchers predict that more than one billion people around the world will be using mobile broadband by 2012. For a global business now in the process of replacing voice revenue with broadband and other sources, that is good news. Parks Associates (News - Alert), for example, suggests that U.S. mobile broadband subscribers will more than triple by 2013; growth from 46 million in 2008 to more than 140 million subscribers in 2013.

From the article, "Good News, Bad News for Mobi ...read more

The pay-TV industry will start to see success in advanced TV advertising beginning mid-2010, with U.S. revenues topping $130 million by year-end, according to the new Parks Associates report Addressable, Interactive TV Advertising in the U.S.

"Major U.S. cable television operators, direct broadcast satellite (DBS) TV providers, and telcos have identified advanced advertising as a key revenue opportunity moving forward," said Heather Way, research analyst, Parks Associates. "In ...read more

Bucking downward trends in the economy through aggressive deployments, IT market researchers predict that Internet protocol television – or “IPTV” – will grow more than 50 percent this year. According to international research firm Parks Associates, the number of subscribers worldwide to telco/IPTV services will approach 40 million by year-end 2009.

Parks Associates reports the number of telco/IPTV households worldwide grew by nearly 80 percent in 2008 to exceed 20 million. It ...read more