Abstract
This IDC study examines the market conditions and the opportunity for the home media server market. The taxonomy is used by IDC analysts to generate market sizings, forecasts, and company models.
"As the digital home ecosystem matures, multiple players have aimed to capture a central role in the networked home, each introducing some variation of home media servers, which are devices that are capable of storing and streaming content in the home and allow for remote access to the digital content. Form factors and channels will play key roles in influencing the devices that will allow consumers to acquire, manage, and consume their digital content," said Jonathan Gaw, research manager for IDC' s Consumer Markets: Home Networking program.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- Attributes of Home Media Server Devices
- Components Common to All Home Media Server Devices
- Optional Components
- Form Factors
- Table: Matrix of Home Media Server Form Factors
- Pay Television Set-Top Box
- Audio Jukebox
- Digital Video Recorder
- Home Server
- Game Console
- Networked-Attached Storage
- Residential Gateway
- Channels
- Pay Television Services
- Broadband Services
- Retail
- Installers
- Application Families
- Competing Visions of Networked Commercial Media
- Figure: Competing Visions of Networked Commercial Media: Archipelago of Intelligence
- Figure: Competing Visions of Home Intelligence: Concentrated Intelligence
- Attributes of Home Media Server Devices
- Future Outlook
- Figure: Dynamics of Channels, Devices, and Applications
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
