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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 ...

Unlike in the digital audio player market, the fight between NAND flash and hard-disk drive (HDD) on the personal media player (PMP) platform is far from over. The 1.8-inch HDD still has a firm grip on the PMP category that requires storage capacity of 20 GB or higher due to the cost per byte advantage over NAND flash ...

The two proposed buyouts are connected -- in a sense, noted Parks Associates analyst Harry Wang, as TomTom began its bid for Tele Atlas nearly a year ago "One of the problems in the navigation field for manufacturers is that the map content is [of] high cost," he told the E-Co...

"Production costs are still going to be expensive" regardless of whether it's a five-minute test pilot or a full-length episode, said John Barrett, research director at Parks Associates "If there is content that is going to be unlocked in this way, it is going to be small inde...

TDtv makes sense in a couple of ways, said Parks Associates mobile TV analyst John Barrett. "The operators have spent all this money for 3G licenses and if you're wanting to roll out service, TDtv is a good way to go about it." TDtv also has an edge in capacity, he told the E-...

Whether movies will fly on mobile TV, however, remains an open question, said John Barrett, a Parks Associates analyst for mobile TV "My word to them would be, 'good luck,'" Barrett told the E-Commerce Times. "Movies, to be honest, don't lend well to streaming technology."

Parks Associates estimates that between 22 million and 25 million people were the appropriate target population of this application in 2007. As demographic trends favor this application and consumer awareness is on the rise, we expect the total addressable market to continue expanding over the next five years, reaching between 44 million and 48 million people in 2012...

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...

Nevertheless, DVB-H was an expected selection. "The EU made it clear for a long time that DVB-H was going to be the technology of choice in Europe," John Barrett, director of research for Parks Associates, told TechNewsWorld Competition Heated Worldwide...

In the U.S. mobile broadband market, all major mobile carriers except T-Mobile have launched 3G mobile networks. At the end of 2006, out of the 225 million cellular subscribers in the United States, 15 million used a 3G-based mobile broadband service via cell phone, PDA, laptop or other device. Also, we estimate there were 3.5 to 4 million data card service subscribers in the U.S. in mid-2007...

"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."

VooZoo will like not cause someone without a Facebook profile to join the social networking site, but it could be sticky enough to keep current members on the site longer and could lead to other movie studios, such as Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, to make their clips available as well, said John Barrett, research director at Parks Associates...

If the 2006 online video market was still in the traffic-building stage, 2007 marked the beginning of the monetization stage ...

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...

Confusion over system requirements has been an ongoing problem for gamers, Michael Cai, director of broadband and gaming with Parks Associates, agreed "A lot of gamers will get excited when they see a new game coming out and buy it, then find out later that their PC couldn't s...

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...

At Parks Associates, we have postulated a number of different paths on which controls can ride into the home -- basic lighting, entertainment, security and energy control systems. Several firms highlighted the last one, energy controls, at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and Control4 was arguably the most energetic in its promotions...

With aQuantive and one of the largest online publishing operations on the Web, Microsoft's portfolio "puts it in a position to look at what's lacking technologically on the ad-serving side," Harry Wang, a research analyst with Parks Associates, told the E-Commerce Times. "The technologies they've been demonstrating, including contextual ads, are definitely helping advertisers to identify the right type of audiences and understand consumers' consumption traits online in real time so that they can place the most appropriate ads alongside content."