PC-TV Tuners: Multimedia PCs' Preemptive Strike To Control The Emerging Digital Living Room

5-Oct-05

Research and Markets has announced the addition of PC-TV Tuners: Multimedia PCs' Preemptive Strike To Control The Emerging Digital Living Room to their offering.  A Race Among Pay-TV, Consumer Electronics And PCs Favors PCs:* Free-to-Air TV provides ""content"" that bypasses pay-tv services -- PC-TV Products also enable ""capturing"" video from other sources -- Broadband connections enable continual updating of software -- PCs naturally connect to in-home networks and large storage systems -- PC-TV Tuners can be used to provide HDTV PVRs without any monthly fees Digital Terrestrial TV services will reshape the PC-TV market. DTT PC-TV Tuner products will need to be country-specific, and be upgraded in step as local DTT services evolve in each region. This will cause a shake out in the market. -- Microsoft's Media Center Edition and Longhorn OS will drive sales -- Intel's Dual Core Microprocessors and PCI Express Bus help, too! -- Apple Computer's Emerging Intel-Based Macintoshes also help -- Pay-TV services will eventually be available on multimedia PCs The worldwide retail value of all PC-TV Tuner Products is expected to ramp up as Digital Terrestrial products gain momentum, and dual tuner products become popular to support Personal Video Recorder functions. By 2009, our forecast model predicts a worldwide retail value of US$ 3.7 Billion, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 42.6 %.

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