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Furthermore, Parks Associates forecasts a five-fold increase in products connected in entertainment-centric home networks by the end of 2007. The report estimates there will be 35 million nodes in U.S. homes by the end of the year; 65 million in 2004; 95 million in 2005; 136 million in 2006; and 183 million in 2007.

From the article "No Lock on the Door at Digital Home," by Michael Singer.

In January of this year Dallas-based market research and consulting firm Parks Associates conducted a survey of 10,800 Internet-enabled homes that traced a growing trend among U.S. households to network PCs with consumer electronics products such as televisions and stereos.

The study found that almost 61 percent of broadband homes with a PC co-located with their primary home entertainment system have a home network in place.

From the article, "TiVo Launches Home Media Op ...read more

Parks Associates, a wireless consultancy, sees home networking as a key growth area for Wi-Fi, as households link up computers, printers, and multimedia devices to share broadband wirelessly. By 2006, Parks Associates forecasts one in five U.S. households will have a data network, quadrupling today's number, with 125 million products connected through wireless networks.

From the article "Heavyweights Pump Up Wi-Fi," by Brian Morrissey.

More than 40 percent of home Internet users in the United States have downloaded MP3 files onto their home computers, according to a study by Parks Associates, and they are storing an average of 305 music files.

Not surprisingly, younger consumers in particular are storing a vast amount of music on their home PCs. In a survey of 711 consumers in U.S. households with Internet access, Parks Associates found that 81 percent of respondents ages 18 to 24 have downloaded MP3 files ...read more

Almost 75 percent of dial-up Internet user in the US are content with the quality of the service they use, reports CyberAtlas.

A survey of 2,500 households conducted by Parks Associates found that 29.1 percent of dial-up users are very satisfied with their Internet service, 19 percent are moderately satisfied, and a further 19 percent are somewhat satisfied.

Just under 11 percent were neutral on the subject, whereas 8.4 percent said they were somewhat dissatisfied, 3.9 p ...read more

"I think there has to be the critical mass in the corporate space first to proliferate the wireless technologies that people have in their laptops, because it only makes sense that a current user of wireless technology will want to extend the use from the office to the public space market," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm.

.... "It's the same sort of argument for the home...wireless will com ...read more

Interest is growing quickly in home networking and in-home devices that connect to the Internet, according to the initial findings of a study released Tuesday by Parks Associates.

The study found that one-third of U.S. homes that currently subscribe to dial-up Internet access want to upgrade to broadband in the next 12 months. The study also found that 28 percent of current broadband subscribers say they will purchase in-home networking in the next year.

The study estima ...read more

"Beyond the PC, a lot of people see the [cable] set-top box as the first consumer electronic device to embrace home networking technology," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm. "How many boxes are consumers willing to put up with?"

From the article "HP hopes to reach the living room."