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Report: Mobile Video Market to Reach $500 Million by 2010

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 29, 2006 - 9:55am.

New York - JupiterResearch, a New York-based business and technology market research firm, on Tuesday said that a new survey it conducted shows that 41% of mobile phone users "are interested in some form of video service on their mobile phone." While adoption of mobile video on phones has been somewhat low to date -- only 2% of respondents said they subscribed to such a service -- 17% said they were interested in watching "live" TV on their cell phones and 11% indicated interest in short video clips. Based on its survey results, JupiterResearch predicts that demand for video on mobile phones will generate $501 million in revenues by 2010, up from $62 million in 2005.

Report: Worldwide PDA Shipments Reach Record Level in 2005

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 17, 2006 - 7:17am.

Stamford, Conn. - Worldwide shipments of personal digital assistants (PDAs) reached a record 14.9 million units in 2005, a 19% increase from the prior year, according to a newly release report from market research firm Gartner. Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, became the No. 1 PDA vendor based on worldwide shipments, accounting for 21.4% of total shipments. Palm shipped 2.77 million PDAs, down 25%.

Report: Digital Video Recorders to Reach Half of U.S. Homes by 2010

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 21, 2005 - 8:52am.

New York -- Digital video recorders will be in 47% of U.S. homes by 2010, growing their installed base from 7 million households at the end of 2004 to 55 million in five years, according to a report from New York-based JupiterResearch. "While TV networks and their advertisers may get increasingly anxious about DVRs, some constituencies have another perspective. Pay TV operators will see the DVR playing an increasingly strategic role over the next two to three years," said JupiterResearch analyst Todd Chanko. Jupiter also predicts that HDTV monitors will grow from an installed based of 13 million in 2004, to 74 million by 2010. While less than 4 million of current HDTV households were subscribed to an HDTV service at the end of 2004, that number is expected to grow to 69 million by 2010. "Television networks and pay-TV operators alike are unsure of consumer demand for HDTV," said Chanko. "Behind closed doors the executives are still measuring the real costs to produce and distribute HDTV against the benefits. That's why there are only 26 hours of HDTV programming a day across seven broadcast networks."

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Report: European Song Download Market to Reach $5.7 Billion by 2009

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 28, 2004 - 4:46am.

Paris -- According to a new report by research and analysis firm Generator, the digital song download market in Europe will reach $5.7 billion (4.5 billion euro) by 2009, a figure that would account for about 40% of the total recorded music market. The report also predicted that the mobile channel will soon figure largely as a sales vehicle for digital music. "Depending on how the mobile operators play their hand, European consumers could spend as much as $777 million (610 million euro) on song downloads during 2009, about 13.5% of the total, and ringtones will be on top of that," said Generator research director Andrew Sheehy. To encourage the successful use of the mobile channel, however, Europe will first need to change its usage-based mobile data tariffs and adopt flat-rate 3G tariffs similar to those introduced in Japan by DoCoMo and KDDI, Sheey said.