Flat-screen TVs were clearly the winners at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES), but bubbling under the surface at the trade show were signs that creating home networks using media servers to manage both audio and video content libraries will also soon hit the big time.

Confirming this hunch, market research and consulting firm Parks Associates  predicts that "multimedia hubs" will reach mass-market status by the end of 2008, with more than 40 million units shipping to US households. The new, 90-page report, "Multimedia Networks in the Home: Analysis and Forecasts," includes profiles of potential audio/video platforms from both the PC and CE industries and examines the underlying factors that drive the growth of multimedia networking.

From the article "Media Servers to Gain Market," by Jon Iverson.

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