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A New Era for Music and Video: How Users in Asia/Pacific Consume Video and Music on Computers and Mobiles
This IDC study discusses entertainment media content, which has become increasingly important for Internet consumers in Asia/Pacific, in line with soaring worldwide usage. The rapid advancements in audio and video services in recent years had fueled a strong demand for music and video entertainment. It also led to a set of challenges for service providers (SPs) such as protecting rights, preserving profits, and identifying the potential of new media, as well as consumers' inertia toward adoption of paid services and finding the right revenue model. This study covered Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan in identifying audio and video consumption behavior. It also looked into consumers' preferences toward paid services to evaluate obstacles and opportunities for service providers (SPs) as well as business sustainability, particularly in emerging media services."While paid content is facing some inertia from consumers, online and mobile media providers should nonetheless continue to introduce a mix of paid and unpaid content.. Paying per song would be more affordable for consumers that are not hardcore music fans, which could lower the barrier for consumers to accept paying for music. Once consumers overcome the initial inertia to pay for audio content by paying for each song, it could get easier to convert them to pay for access to the entire music database. Overall, payment for video content received low endorsement, probably because the market is still very nascent. IDC expects video paid services to gain more traction if online video SPs can set up a low-cost, easy-to-use system for users to download videos they just had to have for offline access, or to gain access to premium content over the Internet using PCs, " says Audrey Heng, market analyst, Emerging Technology Advisory Services, IDC/Asia/Pacific.
Read more...U.S. Consumer Attitudes Toward and Behavior Around Networked Video Entertainment in the Home
With solutions for networked video entertainment in the home now being heavily marketed to consumers, what are their expectations and how have early adopters taken to it? This telebriefing dissects results from IDC's 2010 Connected Home survey of 1,500 consumer broadband subscribers, 1,000 of whom own a home network, the infrastructure necessary for networked entertainment in the home. The survey looked at consumers' use of and interest in networked video devices, their interest in moving Internet video into the living room, and the profile of networked video consumers.In this telebriefing, IDC's research analysts will answer questions such as:How does over-the-top Internet video in the living room change the dynamics with traditional pay TV services?What solutions for delivering Internet video to the television appeal most to consumers?What do consumers value most in networked video entertainment solutions?What motivates consumers to buy into networked video entertainment?
Read more...2010 Connected Home Survey: Home Network Owners
This IDC study presents a cut of the results from IDC's 2010 Connected Home Survey, focusing on the results related to home networking and data applications on the home network. The survey was completed in May 2010 and included 1,526 respondents, all of whom are U.S. adults who subscribe to broadband Internet access at home."We previously bifurcated between households with PCs and those without and then those who were online and those who were not, but consumer technologies and behaviors around them have evolved, and today we distinguish between those with a home network and those without. But our survey finds that even though consumers have high levels of interest in networked applications in the home, they have little understanding of their home technology infrastructure, and this could impede the progress of solutions such as networked entertainment," said Jonathan Gaw, research manager of IDC's Connected Home program.
Read more...Multiroom, Multiscreen, and IP: U.S. Pay TV Service Evolution and Underlying Network Architectures
This IDC Insight examines service enhancements being developed and deployed by the U.S. pay TV industry. Specifically, multiroom and multiscreen content services and the potential underlying enabling network architectures are discussed. The move to IP video distribution both in and outside the home, particularly within the cable segment, is also addressed.
Read more...Worldwide Application Delivery 2009 Vendor Shares
This IDC study presents a competitive analysis of the application delivery market. It provides vendor shares for 2009 in manufacturing revenue. "The application delivery market is headed into a new phase in which features and functions will be introduced in support of cloud architectures. Network managers deploy these products to enhance and extend Web-enabled applications in the datacenter and the WAN. Looking ahead, they will deploy these products in support of increasingly demanding network resiliency requirements." — Lucinda Borovick, IDC research vice president, Enterprise Communications and Datacenter Networks
Read more...Telcos: The IT Channel of This New Decade
This IDC Presentation took place in Singapore in April 2010 at IDC Directions Singapore event. Below is the summary of the presentation. Changing ICT buying patterns, greater emphasis on cross border collaboration, return of leasing and financing, and changing technology trends that make network resiliency critical will give telecom carriers in the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ region, an unequivocal advantage in this new dynamic ICT landscape. IDC expects vendors to concentrate their partnering strategies on this community and prime them to sell and support their solutions to enterprises, proactively driving innovation, differentiation, and competitiveness. IT vendors will need to have a foolproof telecom partnering blueprint to flourish. This presentation will explain what vendors should be aware of as telecom carriers make that great leap to be a full-blown ICT channel for businesses ICT needs.
Read more...Worldwide Home Networking 2010–2014 Forecast
This IDC study updates the worldwide forecast for adoption of home networks, forecasting the number of households with home networks and breaking out home networks by application type, including PC home networks, multimedia home networks, and entertainment home networks. This study also includes forecasts of unit shipments of wireless home routers in each region, as well as the growth of the installed base of wireless home networks, broken down by wireless protocol. "With a slow recovery from the global recession likely, consumer spending will be tight and broadband service providers will be cautious in spending on promotions for residential gateways, dampening the market for home networking infrastructure. But even as the market slows, the overall direction for home network devices and infrastructure remains positive, spurred by networked entertainment applications and improved home networking technologies," says Jonathan Gaw, research manager of IDC's Connected Home program.
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