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Parks Associates announced that almost 66% of U.S. consumers have altered their spending habits in 2008 as a result of the country’s deteriorating economic conditions. These changes have had the greatest impact on entertainment spending outside of the home, according to Digital Media Evolution , a new consumer survey, but also open new areas for growth in customer support services.
Parks Associates reports consumers have cut spending in 2008 primarily on outside entertainment...
The Recession
On December 1, 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that the U.S. economy was in a recession that began in December 2007. While it took these experts a year to make this official determination, consumers have most certainly had a cloud of economic uncertainty hanging above them. The economic news in 2008 has come in constant waves of news, with increasing severity. From talk early in the year about plummeting home values and mortgage defaults, gas...
We now have incredibly fresh data on consumer purchase intentions between now and January 1, 2009. We put a survey into the field late last week titled Digital Media Evolution , and a significant focus is on consumer electronics purchases made this year and those planned for the rest of 2008. I've organized the data under some major themes.
What Will Consumer Electronics Purchases Look Like this Year?
About half of consumers surveyed (49%) indicate that they will purchase...
I am in New York this week spending time at The Future of Television East event, which was held Tuesday and Wednesday. It was another interesting conference, with a mixture of media executives and the "old guard" of television plus the companies that are now making noise in the online video space (Hulu, blip.tv, Break.com, etc.).
There are definitely some differing opinions about what online and mobile video means to the broadcasters. Representatives from NBC-U, CBS, and...
EE Times has reported that UWB chipset company has closed its doors, and indicated that Intel has ended its research efforts in UWB. So, is it a death knell for ultra-wideband? Eric Broockman, Alereon's CEO, says no in a blog he posted last Friday . His indication is that WiQuest's struggle to get a single-chip solution that could meet the widely varying regulatory restrictions that different countries have put in place was a reason why it - but not the entire UWB industry - failed....
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal , Christopher Lawton says that the television experience is about to take a cue from what's been happening with connected game consoles. Both Microsoft and Sony will be launching social networking features that can be accessed through their online gaming services.
We tested a number of social-networking-at-the-TV-features in our TV 2.0: The Consumer Perspective report and found that the ability by users to share recorded content with friends and...
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) says that consumer spending for electronics goods will be half of what it was last year, according to a New York Times article . The organization says it found a drop in the percentage of consumers expressing an intention to buy video games, cameras, music players and laptops.
The association said it found that consumers expected to spend an average of $1,437 during the holidays on items including gifts, food and home purchases. That...
I'm not the only one who's been wondering about whether the cable operators will deploy home networking, either with residential gateway deployments and/or multi-room DVR configurations. Just as I wrote about AT&T's deployment of its multi-room DVR offering, so too did the folks at HomePNA on their blog . Of course, HomePNA over coax is how AT&T's solution is being implemented, so there's no doubt that HomePNA would like to tout that.
There was an interesting note on their...
