Blog articles from 09/2009

Parks Associates supported, TelcoTV 2009 represents both the present and the future – today’s traditional video distribution model and tomorrow’s multiplatform ‘TV Everywhere’ future. Understanding how to implement today’s video business while planning and preparing for whatever the future may bring is paramount for long term success. Sessions Highlighted: Delivering on the Quality Promise: Internet Video on Your 50-inch HDTV (And Loving It) Hear from innovative...

Parks Associates is supporting the Ninth Annual Storage Visions Conference (SV 2010) which will be held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5 - 6, 2010. The Storage Visions Conference is the premier event bringing together digital storage oriented people from throughout the digital content creation, distribution and user value chain. Dean Klein, Vice President of memory system development at Micron will give a keynote talk on The Organics of Solid...

Parks Associates is supporting the Digital Music Forum West event from October 7-8, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Digital Music Forum West brings together the top music, technology, and policy leaders for high-level discussions and debate, intimate meetings and unrivaled networking about the future of digital music. For more information about this event, please click here .

Service providers will see a quick return on investment and be able to build new profits through residential gateway (RG) deployments, which will account for over 50% of all global home networks by 2013, according to Connected Home: Global Outlook. This new report from international research firm Parks Associates finds U.S. broadband households with a home network from their service provider show a spike in interest in enhanced services such as home network tech support, managed...

Parks Associates is supporting the IPTV World Forum Eastern Europe in Prague , Czech Republic from October 20th to 21st. This 2009 event in Prague will continue the IPTV World Forum Series pattern, giving visitors valuable insight into the plans, deployment and expansion strategies, technology choices, business models, marketing approaches and future considerations of many of the region's key players. The operator speakers are helping to make IPTV a reality in Eastern Europe, and they...

In a public move, Samsung offered $26 per share to acquire SanDisk and add flash memory manufacturing to its repertoire. With the patents on flash memory technology that SanDisk holds, Samsung currently pays over $350 million in annual royalties, but by purchasing SanDisk, Samsung would no longer pay the costly fees and be more closely tied to the products using its chips. SanDisk did not feel that Samsung was adequately assessing the company’s value and declined the offer. However, it...

PCs and flat-screen TVs remain popular; netbooks starting to generate consumer interest The recession continues to limit CE shopping, as nearly 50% of U.S. broadband households did not buy a CE product in the first half of 2009, according to Parks Associates’ Consumer Decision Process. This ongoing service, which surveys consumers on their past purchases and future intentions for over 35 CE products, found consumers are still hesitant to buy, with fewer households overall...

The connected home is a term used frequently but often defined ambiguously. For Parks Associates , the connected home is comprised of the following elements: * Access services - including broadband, television, landline communications, and mobile services * Content and value-added services that complement the core access services * Devices that connect to these access services and each other, creating a network that can share content and resources throughout the home * Consumer...