The Connected Home vision is exciting both technology developers and service providers alike. Many vendors believe that connected home devices embody a new era in consumer electronics and are set to generate high returns for many years to come. Likewise, broadband and digital TV service providers see increased revenue and customer loyalty opportunities from supporting multiple connected devices. But technical, usability and content protection issues are potential barriers to growth. Consumer interest in sharing content between multiple devices may be increasing, but the long-term revenue potential for such products remains uncertain. Connected Home Devices predicts the winners and losers in the race to dominate the digital connected home.

Strategy Analytics’ has demonstrated its visionary credentials by pioneering its Connected Home Devices (CHD) industry research years ago. This research builds on Strategy Analytics’ industry-unique 30 years of continuous consumer technology industry tracking and forecasting. With the Digital Consumer analyst team’s unmatched experience and independent perspectives, it continues to deliver market-leading research, analysis and forecasting on the worldwide business opportunity for devices that support access to digital media sourced from broadband, broadcast and wireless communications platforms.

CHD research tracks the rollout of a wide portfolio of emerging digital home and portable devices, including Digital TV Receivers, Set-Top Boxes, Personal Digital Video Recorders, HDTV, next generation DVD, Games Consoles Digital Media Servers, Digital Media Receivers, Digital Media Players and Portable Media Players.

Lenovo founds Eedoo: a Signal for a Potential Opening-up of the Chinese Video Game Console Market

Insight, Word - 31 Aug 2010

Lenovo’s recent announcement of its founding of Eedoo to develop a home-grown video game console in the Chinese market is widely viewed as a signal that the long-time ban on the video game business in China might be lifted soon. In spite of...