TDG in the News
 | Linksys Incorporates IBM Tivoli Data Protection Software Into Linksys by Cisco Small Businesses Network Storage Portfolio An industry study(1) by the analyst firm The Diffusion Group surveyed more than 1,000 small business organizations about their data storage habits and revealed that nearly half of them conducted manual back-ups based solely on habit, while only 4 to 5 percent relied on a continuous data software application.
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Inlet Unveils Automated Transcoding and Encoding Workflow Management at NAB “A growing number of content creators, programmers and distributors are struggling to find ways to monetize and distribute digital media - not only faster but more profitably," said Colin Dixon, senior consultant with The Diffusion Group. "Inlet's Armada solution uniquely addresses these challenges... by applying advanced automation technologies to digital media management. In fact, Armada represents the first time I've seen the entire digital media workflow process handled in this fashion.”
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 | Anystream Integrates Cisco Content Delivery System "As new monetization strategies unfold, automating and simplifying the often cumbersome process surrounding the production and delivery of online video has become a necessity," said Colin Dixon, broadband media practice manager of The Diffusion Group. "With this product offering, Cisco and Anystream are providing a new, innovative end-to-end solution by matching Anystream's heritage in video production and management with Cisco's industry-leading IPTV and cable solutions under one umbrella." |
 | Smartphone Computing Moving Into Docs’ Offices In the United States, according to research by the Diffusion Group, smartphone use by physicians will increase to 70% over the next three years.[They]estimate that nearly half (49%) of U.S. doctors used smartphones in 2006. |
| | Sony’s Disc Poised for Victory "With Warner going Blu-ray only, HD DVD's lifetime is now numbered in days, weeks at the most," Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group, said in a release shortly after the Warner announcement. "Blu-ray will spin this announcement in such a way that consumers will have a very hard time rationalizing an HD DVD purchase."
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| Jobs Fails To Wow At Macworld "Apple is sometimes a victim of its own success," says Michael Greeson, president of technology and media consulting firm Diffusion Group. "Now it's about improving functionality, rather than introducing a revolutionary new platform." |
| Jobs' Keynote Address Considered By Some A "Disappointment" "Apple is sometimes a victim of its own success," Michael Greeson, president of a firm called Diffusion Group. "Now it's about improving functionality, rather than introducing a revolutionary new platform. |
| Toshiba pitches HD DVD players as... DVD machines In December 2007, US market watcher The Diffusion Group forecast big demand for HD DVD among "second-wave" consumers who already own an HD TV but not a hi-def player, and among folk who have yet to get a flat-panel display. |
| Toshiba Refuses To Wave The White Flag In HD DVD-Blu-Ray War Toshiba's latest announcement appeared to be aimed at saving face and building a better future bargaining position with Sony, Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group, told InformationWeek. "You have more negotiating clout if you continue to actively support the HD DVD format," he said. "If you rollover and play dead, then you have no clout." |
| Survey: Tech firm CIOs to hire in 2008 Nearly one-third of households that don't have high-definition television sets are interested in buying the devices in the next few months, according to a study by The Diffusion Group, a Dallas market-research firm. |
| Gemstar-TV Guide Selects Encirq DeviceSQL "Leading interactive program guide developers like Gemstar-TV Guide are tasked with managing an explosion of metadata from an increasing number of data sources," said Colin Dixon, Practice Manager, Broadband Media, The Diffusion Group.
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| US passes milestone in switch to digital TVs According to research published last month by The Diffusion Group, almost a third of non-HDTV households in the US are interested in purchasing a new HDTV set in the next six months. |
| TV comes to BlackBerry Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar Holding Corp., has sold about 500,000 Slingbox devices, said consultant Colin Dixon of The Diffusion Group in Dallas. |
| Warner Bros. Chooses Blu-ray Over HD DVD "With Warner neutral, both camps had a reason to sustain the battle throughout 2008," Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for the Diffusion Group, said in an e-mail. "With Warner going Blu-ray only, HD DVD's lifetime is now numbered in days, weeks at the most. Blu-ray will spin this announcement in such a way that consumers will have a very hard time rationalizing a HD DVD purchase." |
| Warner Bros. Says It Will Drop HD DVD Support "Warner's decision to move exclusively to Blu-ray will rapidly bring an end to the format war that has led to tepid sales of high-def DVD players and discs," said Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group. |
| Warner Chooses Blu-Ray; Is HD-DVD History? Michael Greeson, CEO of market research firm The Diffusion Group, said in an interview with Tech Trader Daily this afternoon that Warner's decision effectively puts an end to the high-def format war. His conclusion: Blu-Ray wins. |
| HDTV: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly "The next wave of buyers is comprised of early mass-market consumers, a much larger segment (than early adopters) with a focus on practical considerations," said TDG principal analyst Michael Greeson in a statement. |
| The Perils of Social Networking "The push-back was strong," said Nicholas Givotovsky, an analyst with research firm Diffusion Group. "Sometimes what people want isn't directly in line with the business model of the company. Limits are being felt." |
 | HD-DVD or Blu-ray? "The format battle is going to get a lot more aggressive next year based on Christmas sales this year," said Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst at The Diffusion Group, a Dallas-based research and consulting firm. |
| Mainstream consumers enter the HDTV market, Greeson says This week, HD Technology Update speaks with Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst of The Diffusion Group, about the findings and what they say about where the HD market is headed. |
| VOD, 'Net connected set-top boxes, poised for massive growth In August, The Diffusion Group said that newer rental methods (such as Netflix, VOD, and PPV) were growing in popularity, especially among those who currently rent movies from a brick-and-mortar store. |
| A clearer picture: Bringing high-definition TV into focus According to data released this month from the Diffusion Group, a research firm in Dallas, nearly one-third of homes without an HDTV are interested in buying one in the next six months. |
| HD-DVDs and Blu-rays fail to dominate market According to a recent study by the Dallas-based The Diffusion Group, close to one-third of non-HDTV households are interested in purchasing a new HDTV in the next six months. Out of those respondents, 43 percent of those who were likely to purchase an HD disc player preferred HD DVD, citing price as their main criteria, while 27 percent preferred Blu-ray (30 percent were undecided). |
| TDG finds US high-def TV buyers favour HD DVD New research from market intelligence firm, The Diffusion Group (TDG), finds that more people in the US, who are thinking of buying an HD TV in the next six months, are considering buying an HD DVD player than those who are thinking of buying a Blu-ray Disc machine. |
| Curtain Falls On Movie Download 1.0 "There's not a success story out there yet," said Michael Greeson, an analyst at research firm Diffusion Group. "A lot of people overestimated consumer appetite for these video services. The original models were really far ahead of the consumer market." |
| Study: Mainstream HDTV Buyers Opt for HD DVD "The next wave of buyers is comprised of early mass-market consumers, a much larger segment with a focus on practical consideration such as price," said Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst with TDG. Andy Tarczon, founding partner of TDG, said the studies were independent and that they didn't attempt to take sides. He said the fact 30% of respondents were undecided represented a swing vote in the format war. |
| Video challenges the internet industry Colin Dixon from the Diffusion Group summarized the underlying market problem when he told listeners the market is rapidly moving from an expectation of short, low-quality video, to a near insatiable demand for longer-form, near-HD content. |
| Next wave of HDTV adopters may lean towards HD DVD If there's one group that likes the format war, it's market analysts. The latest prognostication comes from The Diffusion Group (TDG), which looked at consumers intending to bite into the HD fruit in the next six months. |
| The Broadband Fifty - December, 2007 And cable operators should be concerned, says Michael Greeson, founding partner, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group (TDG). "The cable operators can't be in denial about the Internet as a multimedia medium. It's a powerful technology. You can't deny its power. Now that it's coming to the TV, it's time to be concerned." |
| Surprising Skills Michael Greeson, founder of the Dallas-based Diffusion Group, says that phones and household devices have become flexible to the desires of the manufacturer, the service provider and the customer. |
| Smartphones gain appeal with more docs "The new breed of physician is technologically savvy, and the smartphone is considered just another part of the toolkit," said Alex Kasten, Diffusion Group analyst and author of Defining the Black Bag for the 21st Century: The Evolution of Mobile eHealth Applications." |
| Report: Blu-ray Takes 73 Percent Of HD Market In Europe Earlier this year, TDG president and analyst Michael Greeson published his opinions on the HD DVD-versus-Blu-ray wars, after attending a panel hosted by the HD DVD Promotional Group at the Electronics Merchants Association Home Media Expo 2007. |
| Miniweb Acquires SkyKeys/Internet Sites Service from BSkyB to Bring Web-Style Interactivity into the Living Room Colin Dixon, an analyst with The Diffusion Group stated: "For the coming wave of Internet video to reach equipment in the living room, CE device manufacturers require a standards-based mechanism to allow web sites to deploy their user interfaces and services across a common browser. A content driven approach, such as Miniweb's, is just what this industry needs." |
| Verizon Isn't Playing Games, But Its TV Subscribers Will Providing two-way interactivity, though, is key for TV games, says Colin Dixon, an analyst at research firm Diffusion Group. He says there's no way TV games can compete with high-performance "shoot 'em ups" that are popular on PCs and consoles. Computer chips in set-top TV boxes don't have enough processing speed, he says. But Verizon's FiOS network has better two-way capabilities than digital cable networks, Dixon says. |
| Powerline home net camps mount urgent bid for unity Despite the heady competition, the market for all home networks is growing, said Michael Greeson, principal analyst at The Diffusion Group. The market watcher estimates as many as 185 million homes will have in-house networks by 2011, with an average of six devices on each net. |
| First Ever Zaldiva.com iTunes(TM) Podcast Delivers Collectibles Information to Worldwide Audience In a report by The Diffusion Group, authored by Marc Freedman, titled: "Podcasting: Fact, Fiction and Opportunity," it suggests that between 2004 and 2010, the use of podcasting among US consumers will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 101%. |
| Will iPhone kill iPod, or touch slow iPhone sales? Diffusion Group analyst Brion Feinberg believes mobile phones will become the de facto choice for media on the go - and reckons iPods will become historical anachronisms. "Within the next few years, demand for stand-alone portable music players will peak and begin to slowly fade into the background; within ten years, these devices will be relegated to museum shelves next to the vinyl LP and the 8-track player," he said. |
| Is the iPod (gasp) Doomed? In a strongly worded report, Feinberg says that mobile phones will rapidly rise as an option for consumers desiring media-on-the-go, eventually supplanting the iPod and all hardware based music devices. That is, once problems with battery life, ease of use, and consumers magnetism-to-all-things-Apple are overcome. |
| Orb Networks Surges Past One Million Users "At a time when consumers are overwhelmed by a tsunami of content, Orb is the first company to allow them to make sense of it all and put together their own personal entertainment guide, or PEG, for the content they like," said Colin Dixon, Senior Consultant, The Diffusion Group. "The PEG is the key component of anytime, anywhere, any device access to the consumer's media and it will reshape how content presentation and targeting is delivered." |
| IPod Rivals At Drawing Board But Zune's real-world execution fell short, says Brion Feinberg, an analyst for The Diffusion Group. "With Zune, it isn't easy for consumers to use Wi-Fi to share their music," he said. To appease music publishers, a song copied from one Zune to another can play only three times over three days. |
| Sizing up video downloads: renting may be where it's at A recent report by The Diffusion Group says that newer rental methods such as direct mail (e.g., Netflix), video-on-demand, or pay-per-view are growing in popularity. However, despite reports that services like the Xbox Live Video Marketplace are doing well, TDG says that online movie rentals are only making a "negligible impact" on rental behavior thus far. |
| X|Media|Lab Melbourne: Marcelino Ford-Livene, Intel digital home By 2011, the Diffusion Group predicts that 36% of broadband video will arrive video game consoles, the next highest portion will be hybrid set-top boxes followed by networked digital TVs with 24%. |
| The Select and Start News Report: 08.06.07 The war is still continuing between the Blu-Ray disc and the HD-DVD. At the Electronics Merchants Association Home Media Expo 2007 (damn that's a long name), TDG president and analyst Michael Greeson has recently published his opinions on the war. He says that even though Blockbuster has sided with Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, that "will have little impact on how the format battle is decided," calling Blockbuster "a blip on the DVD sales radar." |
| The HD disc format war is over! Actually, no it's not. We're nowhere near the end, yet countless fortune tellers seem to have called the winner. Let me share with you some facts and you'll see how far we truly are from deciding on an HD disc format. I'll be honest. I'm one of those who have called the winner already, but TDG Research over Digital Trends has convinced me otherwise. |
| TiVo unveil low cost HD recorder box TiVo hopes the lower cost will attract customers who are not put off by TiVo's monthly subscription charge. "The $799 Series 3 box priced everyone but the power users and tech innovators completely out of the market," says Michael Greeson, principal analyst at the Diffusion Group, a research firm. "The new unit makes TiVo and HD palatable for the mainstream consumer." |
| It's Here - The New TiVo HD DVR - The Ultimate HDTV Companion at a Price Consumers Have Been Asking For "With close to 30% of U.S. homes now owning at least one high-definition TV, the market is ready for an HD-enabled platform that combines the best in DVR technology with the best of both traditional and web-based video entertainment," notes Michael Greeson, president of The Diffusion Group, a consumer technology think tank. "TiVo HD sets the standard in terms of non-PC Internet-enabled set-top platforms, not to mention providing the seamless interface to which TiVo users have become accustomed." |
| TiVo gearing up for HD fight The new DVR could help TiVo become a stronger company as people increasingly watch television on their own time and from wherever they want, not just at home, said Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for the Diffusion Group. |
| TiVo Targets the Mainstream The advantage TiVo will have now, analysts say, is its price. "The $799 Series 3 box priced everyone but the power users and tech innovators completely out of the market," says Michael Greeson, principal analyst at the Diffusion Group, a research firm. "The new unit makes TiVo and HD palatable for the mainstream consumer." |
| Technotainment - June 27 & 28 Fed up with the cost of digital entertainment in your home? Relief may be on the way...eventually. The Diffusion Group, a marketing research firm, says the cost of digital home entertainment services will peak next year...stay steady through 2011...then start a dramatic decline. The group says more homes will have broadband and in-home networking...and those users will have more choices over and above traditional cable and satellite services. That competition, it says, will drive down prices. |
| DVD Use on Video Game Consoles Rare [A]bout half of US broadband households have at least one game console in the home, and 15% have two or more, according to The Diffusion Group's "On the Use of Game Consoles for Movie Viewing" study. |
| Bare Knuckles/ Eagerly awaiting the E3 So, will this help the sagging sales of the PS3? Not really, according to a recent study by the Diffusion Group, a Dallas-based market-study organization. The report found that 80 percent of consoles in homes have the ability to play DVDs and/or download and watch films from the Web. Yet just 14 percent are used for movies. |
| 2Wire Goes to Eleven According to The Diffusion Group, approximately 75 million global households currently have both a broadband connection and a home network. "This powerful combination of technologies provides the platform upon which operators can deliver a wide variety of managed services," said Michael Greeson, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group. "2Wire was among the first to guide operators towards intelligent residential gateways, and today continues to be a leader in the space, helping operators to manage and monetize broadband networked connections." |
| iPhone Could Hurt Palm, Nokia, Moto; Poised To Tie RIM This advice comes from Michael Greeson, founding partner, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group (TDG), who says: "A lot of people will wait on the sidelines" until the price of the iPhone drops or until it's available from carriers other than AT&T. |
| CableCards Arrive July 1, And No One's Happy "Because I'm in the business, I wanted to get a CableCard-compliant plasma," Dixon said. "I bought a pretty much standard 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV. They had three flavors of this box, and I had to buy the most expensive flavor of that particular TV to get a CableCard slot. It was $500 more expensive than the next one down. Now, all of that $500 is not absorbed by CableCard. There are other nice things in there. But let me tell you, not a lot. |
| Wizzard Media Lands on iTunes(tm) A new report from the Diffusion Group states that 70% of podcast consumers rely on iTunes to access podcast content. |
| Analyst: Fraction Of Console Owners Using Video Capabilities Said report author Dale Gilliam, "Today's next-generation games consoles such as the Xbox 360 or Sony PS3 are true digital multimedia powerhouses. Yet very few of these devices are connected to the Internet and, even though these same platforms may feature a high-definition DVD playback system, very few consumers are using them for non-gaming media applications." |
| Kiptronic Launches Dynamic Ad Insertion for Video "The growth in Internet audio and video consumption requires unique content services that create value without disrupting the existing processes of the publisher," said Michael Greeson, principal analyst and president at The Diffusion Group. "This means developing entirely new revenue models that take into account the behavioral personalization of ads, something which Kiptronic's ad insertion technology delivers in spades." |
| Digital Home Entertainment Costs to Peak? [Predrag] Filipovic forecasts that the deployment of broadband and in-home networking will create a shift towards in-home digital media architectures that aren't controlled by franchise operators and so-called "incumbent" service providers like cable companies and telcos-that's how services like Apple's iTunes, Amazon Unbox, and Netflix can get into digital households. |
| Cost of digital home entertainment services under pressure The majority of digital home entertainment service revenue in the United States will continue to be controlled by providers such as Comcast and Verizon, suggest Dr Predrag Filipovic, director of TDG digital home solutions group. "Although consumers will have more choice in terms of the providers they use for specific entertainment services, only a small share of the revenue and profit pool will shift to alternative or non-facility-based providers." |
| iPod's Been Mostly Virus-Free, But Hackers Might Be Lurking The Diffusion Group expects US iPod unit shipments will more than double to 68 million in 2010 from 29 million last year. |
| How big a threat could Apple TV be? This advice comes from Michael Greeson, founding partner, president and principal analyst for The Diffusion Group (TDG), who says: "The cable operators can't be in denial about the Internet as a multimedia medium. It's a powerful technology. You can't deny its power. Now that it's coming to the TV, it's time to be concerned." |
| 20 million Windows Mobile 6 devices in 2008? [E]arly last year The Diffusion Group (TDG) predicted that Windows Mobile would take 29 percent of the 2010 market compared with 26 percent for Linux and 22 percent for Symbian. |
| VirtualLogix: Virtualization for Smart Devices The Diffusion Group predicts that by 2010 the mobile Linux handset market share will grow to 26.6 percent, and virtualization could be the key to application portability and broader Linux acceptance. |
| Apple TV will decide OMD future Apple's $299 device allowing consumers to wirelessly transfer downloaded video content stored on a personal computer to the TV will decide the future of the online movie download (OMD) business, according to US digital researcher The Diffusion Group. "At this point, the entire online movie download sell-through market hinges on the success or failure of Apple TV," said Dale Gilliam, director of primary research at The Diffusion Group. |
| iPodObserver - Apple TV Key to Movie Download Market Dale Gilliam, director of primary research at The Diffusion Group, noted in a recent study "Without a way to stream movies to the TV, the OMD (online movie download) sell-thru market remains little more than a niche/stop-gap between the current physical-media-dominated distribution model (the DVD) and a totally network-based distribution model where movie access is instant and physical media either does not exist or becomes part supplement and part novelty, like older technology often does." |
| "IPTV Driven by the Triple Play" "IPTV market conditions vary widely depending on the country or geography in question," said Colin Dixon of The Diffusion Group. |
| "One Lawsuit, One Agreement Over Viacom Content On The Web" Colin Dixon, a manager of IP media at The Diffusion Group/Plano, TX, said YouTube and Joost have separate objectives and business models. "YouTube is in the business of allowing anyone to post anything they want, they're looking for the short form anything goes approach. Joost is looking to provide mainstream content providers with a robust secure platform to deliver TV content on the Internet. It's constructed with the content provider in mind with the security guarantees they're looking for. It allows them to take their existing business model and duplicate it on the Net." |
| "Heavyweights Join Forces for Open IPTV Standards" "This is significant," Colin Dixon, practice manager for IP media for The Diffusion Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It shows the telcos really beginning to mature in their approach to the market. They recognize that in order to keep costs down and drive acceptance of their service, they need to put standards in place," he added. "This is an effort on their part to work with the industry players to help do that." |
| "Symbian tops smartphone OSes, but challenges loom" Just over a year ago, The Diffusion Group (TDG) predicted that Windows Mobile would overtake both Symbian and Linux by 2010, garnering 29 percent of the market to 26 percent for Linux and 22 percent for Symbian. TDG noted that Microsoft has the advantage of leveraging "tight integration" with its other Windows OS products in both the enterprise and "advanced consumer" markets. |
| "LaCie Partners with Axentra to extend Ethernet Disk Family with a Home" "As the number and variety of consumer digital devices expands, so too does the need for a non computer-based media server solution," said Michael Greeson, Founder & CEO, The Diffusion Group. "LaCie's Ethernet Disk with HipServ is an example of an innovative, easy-to-use, dedicated appliance that delivers the functionality to operate in the connected home." |
| "Telco Giants Found Open IPTV Forum" "I do see a good future for telco IP-based TV," [Colin] Dixon said. "The operators will do quite well, although it will take some time." |
| "Bringing Internet Content to the TV: The Race Heats Up" By Kassandra Kania KillerApp.com Mar. 1, 2007 The potential market is enormous: According to research firm The Diffusion Group, the number of broadband-enabled televisions will reach 162 million by 2011. |
| "Cisco set to battle Motorola in the digital home" Cisco and Motorola are best positioned to capture new customers worldwide, said Colin Dixon, an analyst at Dallas-based Diffusion Group. He predicted last year that their combined share of the global Internet-based TV market will surge to 90 percent in 2010 from 15 percent in 2006. "This is very simply a battle for the digital home," Dixon said in an interview. "Over time we expect to see them grow to dominate the market." |
| "IPTV & the ALU, Microsoft soap opera" PS: Our soothsayer of the month award goes to Colin Dixon of The Diffusion Group. "With the situation as it stands today, the Alcatel/Microsoft partnership seems headed for a messy court battle and a very public collapse of the IPTV industry's most visible partnership," he wrote in an opinion piece. |
| "Viacom Squeezes YouTube, Gets Joost" "When you fire up Joost you get channels and it is playing 24/7," [Colin Dixon] said. "It takes up your whole screen in a TV-like experience that uses a mouse instead of a remote." Dixon said that Joost's video quality is good and the interactive features are compelling, and pointed out that, like YouTube, Joost might be in the right place at the right time. |
| "Accenture Sees Big Future For IPTV" This will put China roughly on par with the U.S., which is expected to have about 11 million subscriptions by 2010, according to industry analysts at the Diffusion Group. |
| Flatness Factors Right now, says [Michael] Greeson, the flat-panel TV market is in the "early mass market phase." Early adopters already have bought their first sets, and it is mainstream consumers who are the new target customers. To close the deal, he advises, avoid speaking in technology lingo, and even more important, talk about the benefits and demonstrate the experience of owning a flat-panel TV. "Consumers need to understand the value relative to the price," he adds. Despite falling prices, the value still is not obvious to consumers, he contends. By combining experiential marketing with lower prices, dealers clearly can show the value to their customers. |
| "PUSHING THE APPLE" And iTunes doesn't offer a movie rental or subscription service - so far. Nor does it enable consumers to burn it onto a DVD."There are a lot more questions than answers (about Apple TV)," said Greeson. |
| "Analysts Question Apple TV" While Apple's iTunes music service has been a cultural phenomenon, Michael Greeson, CEO of the Diffusion Group, told the Chronicle that it's uncertain that consumers will pay $9.99 to $14.99 for movie downloads and then send them from the PC to their TVs. (Apple's iTunes cost just 99 cents a song.) |
| "Broadband-fed TVs set for surge" As the Internet finds its way to the primary home TV - and it will - incumbent pay TV operators and established broadcasters will gradually lose control over the types of video consumers can watch. In the next few years, a growing number of consumers will look to the Internet as means of expanding the variety of content to which they have access, much of which will be available on-demand and specifically suited to their tastes," according to TDG Senior Analyst Colin Dixon, who penned the report ("Broadband Video: Redefining the Television Experience"). |
| "Symbian to gain POSIX libraries" However, Symbian's fortunes may be falling, according to research reports last year from The Diffusion Group. |
| "Apple TV" "This is the biggest realignment of the distribution of entertainment in history," says Colin Dixon. "I don't think that traditional broadcast - cable and satellite - are going away tomorrow, but they must change to maintain market share." The Internet changes businesses at an incredible rate, he says. |
| "TRENDNet and Orb Networks Announce Partnership to Offer Simple and ..." The Diffusion Group predicts more than 160 million households worldwide will have home networks with almost one billion connected devices by 2010. |
| "Analyst: Apple To Face Tough Challenge In Internet TV" Analysts generally welcomed the initiative, which the computer maker flagged almost two years ago, and suggested the move was an important one for both Apple and for the entire broadband video industry. However, many also pointed out that Apple is coming quite late on the scene with such a device. For instance, Michael Greeson, founding partner and Principal Analyst at the Diffusion Group, noted Internet-enabled DVRs and set-top boxes, not to mention digital media adapters, have been around for several years. |
