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Two different types of media uses are propelling the vision for a connected consumer electronics home. These two concepts -- media server and cloud media -- increase the value of television as well as other devices by increasing the ability to discover, aggregate, access and display different types of media. ...
Broadband penetration has increased -- over the past three years, the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany and France have added roughly 50 million new broadband households -- and brought social media usage up along with it. Currently, almost 40 percent of broadband households in those countries use a social networking site at least monthly ...
Social networking has left an indelible mark on consumers in terms of the way they connect and interact with each other. Sites such as Facebook are adding users at an incredible rate, and the online dating site Match.com reported good growth in the latter stages of 2008. ...
"Have there been any complaints about outages related to Google's other hosted services, like its productivity suite? If there have, then yes, I'd say there's room to be concerned. If not, and it's only isolated to e-mail, then -- unfortunately -- this characterizes all of the Web-based e-mail services, so I'm not sure that it does damage to their ability to offer hosted services," Kurt Scherf, principal analyst at Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld...
What EA and other game publishers do is push action/adventure and shooter games to the consumer segments where retail spending is strongest; that makes the launch sequence interesting, Kurt Scherf, principal analyst at Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld "So, our 'power gamer...
Ten years ago, the "smart home" was all the rage. Almost every company in our market had a concept center or display house that showed the functionality of the digital home ...
Pricing is another area where cable companies are often viewed as inferior to their competitors. "Cable companies have focused on delivering product bundles, but customers view their services as much more expensive than those from competitors," Kurt Scherf, vice president at Parks Associates, told CRM Buyer...
YouTube must play nice with the major studios -- and their lawyers, Parks Associates analyst Kurt Scherf told the E-Commerce Times. "It's sort of a dual-pronged strategy," Scherf said. "They need to make sure major content providers are satisfied, to make sure they're doing as much as they can to prevent piracy, and at the same time to go the legitimate route by offering more and more premium content...
The competitive environment that characterizes today's broadband and value-added services landscape benefits the growth of many digital lifestyle products and services. Consumers are also primary beneficiaries of increased competition among carriers. Case studies reveal that when at least two service providers on relatively equal footing in terms of offerings are actively battling to acquire and retain customers, the end results tend to be 1) lower prices; 2) additional value-added offerings, and 3) improved customer support...
"I would bet that things are going to be pretty grim for the fourth quarter," Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst for Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "If you were going to buy a consumer electronics product, you probably already made that play, in large respect because of tax rebates, or the release of the new iPhone. I just almost wonder if any of the demand that may have been generated for the fourth quarter has all but evaporated, which says to me that a company which doesn't have cash in the bank is going to be struggling."
The market to distribute premium video content (mainly TV episodes and feature-length movies) is currently going through one of its most dynamic periods, as experimentation with business models, delivery mechanisms and consumer tastes is in full swing. ...
Consumers have embraced digital media, primarily content such as music, photos and video. They generate their own content, transfer their analog data to digital formats, and download media from the Internet. ...
A streaming business could make good sense for Amazon, Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times "We've been trying to find some pulse in the movie rental business, and what seems to be working -- what we think is going ...
The announcement "definitely adds a major consumer-electronics player into the mix of companies that have been dabbling with tru2way for the past few years," Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst with Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld Panasonic has been involved...
The European broadband, communications and television landscape is not just characterized by intense competition among telephone providers. The cable operators, telcos and satellite providers not only need to keep a close eye on each other, but also players delivering digital terrestrial television (DTT) services. ...
Well, Blockbuster has finally done it. After years of simply copying the Netflix business practices (the movie rental via mail model and the Internet video model), it's definitely done something that Netflix is probably never going to do -- offer to buy Circuit City ...
This is great news for the Blu-ray market, Parks Associates Vice President and Principal Analyst Kurt Scherf told TechNewsWorld. It's also a crucial step because Blu-ray, which beat Toshiba's HD DVD as the next-generation technology for digital video, still has to find a mainstream market...
"It's the way TV is going, for some consumers," Kurt Scherf, an analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's pretty clear to us that the major strategy being implemented by operators is to move more and more of their programming to a nonlinear format like video-on-demand."
DVRs have long been the bane of TV networks, which have seen audience numbers fall as viewer options have expanded and left advertisers behind, Kurt Scherf, an analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times "DVRs come from service providers, and they know they've got...
Consumers who went with the HD DVD format likely will be frustrated, but there aren't a lot of them out there, Kurt Scherf an analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times "The good news is [that] sales of the high-def players including HD-DVD were sluggish and [onl...
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