Industry Research from In-Stat

2Q09 PayTV Subscribers
The PayTV Subscribers Database provides actual subscriber numbers for cable (analog and digital), satellite (DTH), and IPTV (or telco TV) worldwide for the past two years in annual format. Also provided are actuals for the quarter(s) passed in the current year. Regional subscriber forecasts by platform and by type (where appropriate) are provided in annual format for the current year and subsequent four years. Free-to-air TV subscriber forecasts are also provided for a picture of the total available worldwide TV-household market.
The PVR Product Market: Demand Remains Strong
With their ability to time-shift television programming, personal video recorder (PVR) products have become an important component in the digital home entertainment ecosystem. Demand for PVR products remains strong, fueled largely by pay-TV service providers who are ordering and deploying PVR products in record numbers. This report examines the market for personal video recorder (PVR) products. It discusses the functionality of today’s PVR products and provides information about key PVR product manufacturers, leading service providers, and the important trends that are shaping the PVR market. The report provides worldwide PVR unit shipment and revenue forecasts, unit shipments to specific geographic regions, unit shipment forecasts by product type, and worldwide & US PVR product installed base forecasts. More Info
Adopting Digital Rights Information Management
The battle between digital entertainment content protection and content usage has been heating up. Copy protection, watermarks, digital fingerprinting, and conditional access are all technologies used to enforce copyright protection. Yet, attempting to stop the 12 billion illegal P2P downloads occurring annually in the US is being called pointless. What is needed is a new approach to monetizing digital content. This research briefing provides a detailed examination of the shift from content protection to a two-pronged strategy that involves digital rights information management, as well competing with P2P file sharing services. In-Stat’s primary research identifies consumer expectations and content consumption behavior. The outlined digital rights management strategy has the potential not only to create a market where content producer and consumer expectations are aligned, but one that can generate an added $2.5 billion in annual revenue by migrating P2P file sharers to legal services.
Worldwide Digital Satellite Set Top Box Market
This report is part of In-Stat's continuous coverage of the set top box markets. The digital satellite set top box market is the first and largest of the digital set top box markets. Many of the boxes shipping today are more than simple satellite receivers. They have HD decoders, hard drives for digital video recording, and IP connections to access additional content via an IP network. There are a large number of satellite set top box vendors, some of whom focus on providing boxes to the satellite pay-TV providers while others serve the free-to-air market. Market shares are provided for the top five vendors. In addition to five-year forecasts for worldwide box unit shipments, ASPs and revenues segmented by region, this report also contains forecasts for SD boxes with hard drives, HD boxes with hard drives, and HD boxes without hard drives. As part of In-Stat's discussion of satellite set top box technology, five-year bill-of-materials forecasts are provided for basic, HD, and DVR boxes along with a semiconductor total available market (TAM) forecast.