Portable Players, Bundled Services, & the Global Landscape at 2006 International CES

Parks Associates will present on the worldwide potential for advanced technologies and services, as well as the impact of portability and Internet technologies on entertainment, video, and voice services:

• The number of broadband households with a residential gateway (RG) will reach 47 million by 2010, driven in large part by carrier needs to acquire and retain customers and build ARPU from new revenue-generating services.

• Television manufacturers will see a surge in cumulative HDTV sales over the next few years, which will boost the overall market value to $65 billion by 2009.

• The number of U.S. households with a networked storage device will grow to nearly 10 million by 2010.

• Cumulative shipments of portable multimedia players will top 13 million units by 2010.

• By the end of 2006, the worldwide digital music market (not counting mobile) will account for 4.5% of all music sales.

• Revenues from premium VOD downloads will total $530 million at year-end 2009.

• Among online populations in China and South Korea, more than 75% of consumers who plan to purchase an MP3 playhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtver in the next 12 months already own one.

• In France, 36% of all Internet households go to the cinema every month while just 21% rent movies.

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