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Parks Associates' digital music report, Evolution of Digital Music on Connected Devices , finds that since 2011, the number of consumers in U.S. broadband households listening to streaming audio services has grown 130%. This rapid growth can be attributed to the expansion of connected CE devices such as such as A/V receivers, all-in-one home theater systems, wireless speakers, speaker docks, speaker bars, multiroom digital music systems.
In this report, Parks Associates analysts...
Parks Associates data shows that the number of streaming music users has doubled in the last two years, while the number of paying subscribers has surged 166% over the same period of time. Due to popularity within the space, Sprint announced it will be offering customers premium digital music services through their mobile devices.
The first offering, streaming music service through the Harman Kardon® Onyx Studio™ wireless speaker system, will be available to U.S. customers...
Perhaps that headline is a bit dramatic, and I should tone it down. Let's put it another way: will the massive audiences for live online video prevent network service providers from providing high-quality experiences to their viewers without creating overwhelming traffic congestion?
To paint an even more stark picture, will online viewing of Super Bowl XVIII (Sunday, February 2), the Winter Olympics (beginning February 6), and the 2014 FIFA World Cup (kicking off on June 12) make...
zonIn the past few years, a number of ingredients have coalesced to bring about dramatic change in the home audio market. Take, for example, the concept of multi-room audio systems. Until recently, these were only possible by running wires to in-wall or in-ceiling speakers and fed through an A/V receiver. In other words, they weren't the purview of the mass-market.
Several factors have significantly changed this paradigm.
Wireless networking, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth -...
The sale of Hulu by its owners has been called off.
Bids for Hulu have been coming in for more than six months, but its owners have recently announced they intend to retain their ownership of the company. Owners have instead made the decision to invest $750 million for additional content and company growth.
The vision for Hulu they hope to accomplish centers on bulking up the subscription video-on-demand portion of the site in order to become a more credible rival for...
By Brett Sappington
U.S. cable operator Suddenlink announced that it would offer the TiVo Mini to its subscribers in several locations in advance of the product's retail release later this spring. The Mini is a small, IP-based set-top box that provides a variety of features for second and third TVs in the home, including whole home DVR and the ability to pause in one room and play in another. Importantly, the Mini can only be used in homes that have a TiVo Premiere...
Written by Harry Wang, Director, Health & Mobile Product Research
Two separate pieces of news over the last 24 hours caught my attention. Yesterday, Verizon settled its long-time patent disputes with Tivo and ActiveVideo, respectively, paving the way for the service provider giant to offer streaming video services with Coinstar’s Redbox division. The upcoming service, presumably offered via either a Web browser on PC or an app on mobile platforms, will be a big challenge to...
Netflix announced on Monday that they had attained one million subscribers in the UK and Ireland , only 7 months after launching in the region. The company boasts that this rapid expansion is four times faster than Twitter managed to accomplish globally and twice as fast as Facebook and Four-square. They have also surpassed LOVEFiLM , which has been operating in the region since 2004, in every streaming-related metric.
Netflix credits their success in the region to factors,...
