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This Service Covers the Following Technology and Market Issues:

  • Consumers and media
    • What are consumers buying/using? How are they buying it? What are they using devices for? How much are they spending?
  • Digital media hardware
    • Set-top boxes, next-generation and hybrid set-top boxes, carrier and over-the-top enabled devices, three screens convergence
  • Digital media software
    • Interactive program guides, middleware, widgets, Conditional Access, Digital Rights Management
  • Business models for digital media
    • Subscription, rental, download to own/burn, video on demand, advertising supported
  • Internet Video
    • Over the Top, hosted video platforms, white label
  • Pay-TV Market Databases
    • Pay-TV Subscribers, Pay-TV Operator Financial Data, Country and Operator Level Data for IPTV, Cable, DBS, DTT

Perspectives

Evolution in technology has changed the way people communicate, socialize and entertain themselves. We have truly moved to an era in which information exchange is not restricted to the living room and can seamlessly travel across geographical boundaries at the click of a button. Such advancements in technology have given us the iPhone, social networking tools, and access to a wide array of content which can be viewed by consumers not only on their television sets but also on PCs and other portable media devices.

Convergence of the three screens, expansion in services made available to consumers, and new media formats have been catalysts driving the growth of digital media markets. Technology providers are incessantly developing and upgrading products and solutions that enable and support delivery of rich media content to wide populations. The rate of technology market change requires vendors to keep pace with these innovations in order to provide consumers an enhanced user experience.

Video is a key element that has had a positive impact on the growth of the digital media market both in the entertainment world and in the enterprise. Emerging media formats, new delivery mechanisms, interactivity, and the flexibility to consume content at a time, place and device chosen by the consumer has revolutionized the industry. In order to deliver such services to their customers, vendors are developing and providing solutions that are feature-rich, that support multiple media formats, and that offer more capacity, faster processing and higher performance levels.

The digital media practice at ABI Research covers the complete value chain of technology that enables and supports the process of content creation, delivery, and consumption. Analyzing the trends in the market, ABI Research provides extensive data on key technology areas such as content transition from SD to HD, set-top boxes, key pay-TV delivery platforms including cable, satellite, IP, and digital terrestrial, over-the-top video, social networks, virtual worlds and more.

Forecasts in this Service

Companies

  • 2Wire
  • ADAM Software
  • ADB
  • AirLive
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Amazon
  • AMD
  • Amino
  • Ancept
  • Anevia
  • Anystream
  • AOL
  • Apple
  • Apple iTunes Store
  • ARRIS
  • Avid
  • Avtrex
  • BBC
  • Bigband Networks
  • BitBand
  • BitTorrent
  • Broadcom
  • BSNL
  • C-Cor
  • Channel 4
  • China Telecommunications Corp
  • Chuckwalla
  • Chunghwa Telecom
  • CinemaNow
  • Cisco
  • Cisco/Linksys
  • Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group (SPVTG - Formerly Scientific Atlanta)
  • Cisco Systems Inc
  • ClearStory
  • Conax
  • Concurrent
  • Concurrent Computer
  • CoreMedia
  • Dailymotion
  • DigiOn
  • Digital Rapids
  • D-Link
  • D-Link Corporation
  • Dreampark
  • Edgeware
  • EMC
  • Enigma Systems
  • Entone
  • Envivio
  • Ericsson /TANDBERG Television
  • Espial
  • Espial/Kasenna
  • EVS
  • Extensis
  • Getty Images
  • Glowria
  • hanarotelecom
  • Harmonic
  • Harris
  • HP
  • Huawei
  • ICTV
  • Inlet Technologies
  • Intel
  • Interwoven
  • I-O Data
  • Irdeto Access Inc
  • Joost
  • JumpTV
  • Jungo Ltd
  • Kasenna
  • KDDI Corp
  • Korea Telecom
  • Latens
  • LG Electronics
  • Linksys
  • Livestation
  • Macrovision
  • MediaBeacon
  • Media Excel
  • MediaGate USA
  • Microsoft
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Microsoft TV
  • Minerva Networks
  • Motorola
  • Motorola Inc
  • Motorola Inc.
  • Movielink
  • Nagravision
  • NBC Universal
  • NDS Ltd
  • Netflix
  • Netgear
  • Nintendo
  • Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp
  • Nokia Siemens Networks
  • North Plains
  • NXP
  • Omneon
  • Open Text
  • Oracle
  • Orca Interactive
  • Pace Micro Technology
  • PandoraTV
  • PCCW
  • Quantel
  • RipCode
  • Sagem
  • SanDisk
  • SAVVIS
  • Seachange
  • SeaChange
  • SecureMedia
  • Sigma Designs
  • SMSC
  • Sony
  • Starz Entertainment
  • Sun
  • Syabas
  • Tandberg Television
  • Telestream
  • Telsey
  • Texas Instruments
  • TF1
  • Thomson
  • Thomson Grass Valley
  • TI
  • Tilgin
  • Time Warner Inc
  • Universal Music Group
  • UTStarcom
  • UTStarcom
  • Verimatrix
  • VFinity
  • Viaccess
  • WAVE
  • WeShow
  • Widen
  • Widevine Technologies
  • Xbox Video Marketplace
  • Xinet
  • Yahoo!
  • Yes TV Asia
  • YouTube
  • Yuxing
  • Zattoo
  • ZyXEL