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Parks Associates Research Indicates Growing Consumer Demand for Remote Access to Stored Media Content

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 11:50 CST

DALLAS, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- One-third (33%) of U.S. broadband households are looking for ways to access their stored media content from outside the home, according to international research firm Parks Associates. The firm reports 35% of these households consider remote viewing a highly appealing ability.

This demand for remote access will guide future networking plans among service providers, Parks Associates reports. The firm forecasts that over 50 million households worldwide will be using place-shifting solutions outside the home by 2012.

"Home networking is expanding beyond routers, access points, and residential gateways to include advanced set-top boxes," said Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates. "The home has many new devices enabling multiroom, multiplatform access to content, and service providers such as Verizon and AT&T have developed robust multiroom DVR strategies to build and reinforce their subscriber base."

The research firm notes that the sphere of content access will continue to expand and currently there is no coherent strategy to facilitate remote viewing of content stored in the home. As a result, third-party vendors have moved into this space, hoping to establish themselves within this developing market.

"Service providers are experimenting with different ways to provide remote access to content," Scherf said. "As the mobile phone becomes an integrated communications and multimedia platform, we expect remote access to be a significant part of the bundling strategies for all major providers. We will watch closely as service providers develop and test different strategies to leverage the set-top box platform to facilitate two-way content flow between the home and portable devices."

For more information on Parks Associates, contact 972-490-1113, sales@parksassociates.com, or visit www.parksassociates.com.

About Parks Associates

Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, primary studies, consumer research, custom research, workshops, executive conferences, and annual service subscriptions.

Each year, Parks Associates hosts executive thought leadership conferences CONNECTIONS(TM), with support from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA(R)), and CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe. In addition, Parks Associates produces the online publication Industry Insights in conjunction with the CONNECTIONS(TM) Conference series.

http://www.parksassociates.com | http://www.connectionsconference.com | http://www.connectionseurope.com | http://www.connectionsindustryinsights.com

Contact: Elizabeth Parks Parks Associates 972-490-1113 Email: eparks@parksassociates.com

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