Smart Home Opportunities Finally Emerge After Multi-Decade Gestation
I think I must amaze some of my younger colleagues when I show them one of our ancient hard copy multi-client studies, a few dusty samples of which I keep stacked away in a cupboard in my office. The...
View ArticleStrategy Analytics Introduces Powerful New Consumer Survey Database Tool
Strategy Analytics has been designing and analysing large scale consumer surveys for many years. Some of this work has been used by our industry analysts to support their regular market and competition...
View ArticleCES 2013: Time for TV’s Fightback
Smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks will grab many of the headlines over the next few days of CES mayhem, and in some cases may even deserve their accolades. The world of consumer technology has been...
View ArticleCES So Far: 4k TV Makes Its Mark as Smartphones Take Back Seat
As hoped for in my comments last week, television has created much of the excitement so far at CES 2013. Things started off well when the first major press conference from LG spent very little time on...
View ArticleCisco’s 10-year Retail Odyssey Is Over: Linksys Sold to Belkin
Almost 10 years ago to the month since Cisco announced it would acquire Linksys, the company has told investors it has agreed to sell the unit to Belkin, the privately held home networking specialist...
View ArticleIFA 2013: The return of summer CES?
There aren’t many analysts and journalists still standing who recall the days when there were two CES’s a year. Even just thinking that thought is enough to bring on a cold sweat at the thought of...
View ArticleIFA 2013: HDMI 2.0 Finally Launched, But Make Sure You Keep It A Secret
The world of standards is rarely to be entered by the faint-hearted but the arrival of the HDMI 2.0 specification at last week’s IFA raised an unusually high number of questions and issues which will...
View ArticleWhy the Connected Home Vision is Failing
I recently posted the following comments on an analyst forum: The connected home vision is failing because of classic standards v. competition barriers. What may be in consumers' interests (single...
View ArticlePlayStation 4 Pre-launch Review: First and Foremost, a Game Console
Sony held a two-day pre-launch event on November 11 and 12 in advance of its November 15 release of PlayStation4, taking over the Standard High Line hotel in midtown New York City. And by “taking...
View ArticleXbox One Pre-launch Review: It’s Getting Better All the Time
Microsoft set up shop in New York last week and held more intimate sessions with analysts and media in a smaller venue with less pomp than the Sony event several stops away. I left the briefing feeling...
View ArticleNext Gen Goes Next Frontier: Xbox One Coming to China in 2014
Well, that didn’t take long.Less than a month after China set its guidelines for entrance into its game console market after a 14 year-long ban, Microsoft announced that it will launch the Xbox One in...
View ArticleEntering the Ultra HD Era: A third of US households will own UHD TVs by 2020
Our latest research highlights the importance of Ultra HD (UHD) in television’s future. Global Ultra HD TV sales reached 1.7 million units last year, although the vast majority of these were sold in...
View ArticleDay One at E3 2014: Opening Salvos with Nintendo Waiting in the Wings
The day started off with a full frontal assault on the senses from Xbox diving into 90 minutes of nothing but game. They set out to show that they had learned from their mistake of not catering first...
View ArticleDay Two at E3 2014: Nintendo Spreads Its Wings
The Nintendo Digital event was filled with games, colors, and fun. In a way, it was everything one would expect from a Nintendo E3 broadcast, but that doesn’t mean that there weren’t gasps from the...
View ArticleDay Three at E3 2014: Is Virtual Reality for Real?
Though I had a lot of interesting discussions and briefings at E3 (to be covered in a separate written insight soon), and had the opportunity to play some very beautiful and innovative console games to...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Subscription Music Service – Amazon Prime Music
Joining a crowded streaming music scene that already contains Rhapsody, Pandora, Spotify, Apple and Samsung, Amazon unveiled Amazon Prime Music in the US. Prime Music provides access to more than one...
View ArticleGoogle tries its hand at TV.....again.
Google’s widely anticipated Android TV software platform was unveiled at its annual developer’s conference in San Francisco last month, marking the technology giant’s third shot at taking control of...
View ArticleNVIDIA Makes a Play at Gaming Tablets
NVIDIA continues to extend its gaming reach with the launch of the gaming-focused SHIELD Tablet, the latest in a long line of embellishments to its position as a leading supplier of GPUs and SoCs to...
View ArticleTightrope Walking: Defining UHD TV Basics While Pushing Innovation on Better...
This is the year that 4K Ultra HD (UHD) TV sales are set to dramatically rise from the embryonic status it has occupied for the last two years. Sales figures in 2014 are in line with our forecast from...
View ArticleIFA 2014: It’s all about the curve but don’t forget UHD.
The IFA consumer technology show is not usually used as a platform for new TV set announcements as most brands reveal their line ups at the beginning of the year at CES. That said IFA’s press...
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