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Parks Associates estimates 2011 revenue from connected home and security monitoring services at $9.4B and will grow to $13.8B by 2016. Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates, will address this growing market, including opportunities, consumer demand, and future growth for bundled services at the Electronic Security Expo (ESX) on Tuesday, June 26th in Nashville, Tennessee.

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That was the upshot of research presented online Friday by Dallas-based Parks Associates and first reported on by Home Media Retailing. According to the presenter, Parks senior analyst Brett Sappington, only 15 percent of the 20 million homes that subscribe to DirecTV — the No. 2 multichannel service in the U.S. — even know about TV Everywhere, the pay TV industry’s broad initiative to move video content onto digital platforms and preserve its business model in the process.

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International research firm Parks Associates will host the 16th Annual CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase, June 5-7 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Media is invited to attend CONNECTIONS™, co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network, and meet with analysts, keynotes, speakers, sponsors, and other attendees.

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Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates, will moderate a key session this week at ConnectivityWeek tackling the challenges of building device interoperability in home area networks. The session "HAN Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless," Tuesday, May 22, in Santa Clara, California, will address the role of standards such as SEP 2.0 and the transition to IP, in particular the factors accelerating this transition and its impact on consumers.

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Parks Associates announced the conference sessions and opening keynote for the CONNECTIONS™ at TIA 2012 Conference, the leading event for service providers, device manufacturers, and advanced technology companies working on solutions for the connected consumer. CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference & Showcase, co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network Conference and Exhibition, takes place June 5-7 in Dallas, Texas. Kevin Petersen, senior vice president of AT&T Digital ...read more

With growing libraries of downloaded music and increasing access to streamed sources, consumers desire ways in which to expand their audio enjoyment at home, said Kurt Scherf, VP, principal analyst, Parks Associates. Networked audio products are becoming more commonplace as a way to extend music into multiple parts of the home.

From the article, "Networked Audio Products: Market Update 4Q 2011"

Infrastructure development and technology advances have piqued the interest of broadband service providers in this market, said Harry Wang, Director of Health and Mobile Product Research with Parks Associates. "BSPs are studying the market and piloting projects with partners in preparation for full engagement. The market potential is big enough for both the incumbents and BSPs, but the key is to find the right business models to awaken the dormant demand.

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This report covers the changing landscape of technologies and services, including detailed analysis of the key drivers and market dynamics. Insights from Parks Associates' extensive consumer data are applied to describe the business models for utilities, telcos, security service firms, and retailers and the future opportunities in the energy management market.

Winners in this market will have a clear vision of the future and a detailed understanding of the market in order to ...read more