Second Internet Revolution -- Now Showing!
GUILDFORD, England, Sept. 13 -- ARC Group
( http://www.arcgroup.com ) today warned that the `Napster style` downloading and
swapping of digital video has now become firmly rooted on the internet, and is
spreading rapidly across the large early adopter community.
The free availability of advanced compression technologies such as DivX
coupled with the file sharing ability of `Gnutella` type protocols (fully
distributed and `legal proof`) together offer the mass market the ability to
download and share very large multimedia files, and view them at full screen.
Tony Crabtree, ARC Group Consultancy Manager said that "whilst the industry
continues to be absorbed by its own internal issues, on the ground, users are
rapidly acquiring `free` digital content on a mass scale. Once again users
are calling the shots ... only this time it`s expensive video content, not
just music." Crabtree continues, "however, on the face of it, what appears to
be a threat to the industry, may in reality, be the very thing that re-ignites
the internet and drives us to the broadband revolution that we have all been
talking about. I firmly believe that applications like SMS and MP3 (that
capture the user`s imagination), will drive the next phase of internet
development."
This is in the wake of the recent announcements by the leading Hollywood
Studios of their support for the `Moviefly` video-on-demand concept. Whilst
the studios have at last made a significant step towards digital content
delivery, they may have allowed a grass roots movement to become established.
These findings form part of a newly released strategic report, "Content
and Applications for Broadband and Digital TV" from ARC Group. According to
this study the total number of households accessing streaming content will
increase fivefold between 2001 and 2006 with 310m households viewing content
via narrowband and broadband access. By 2006, 165m households will be
broadband enabled which will account for over 50% of the streaming media
audience. Broadband will be dominated by entertainment with 194m households
accessing this type of content and applications. Music will be the leading
broadband content genre with almost 140m users in 2006 due to the plethora of
internet radio stations, exclusive webcasts, MP3 and peer-to-peer file
sharing.
This report covers the following topics:
* Business Models
* Home Platform Evolution
* Content delivery
* Deployment
* Application Development
* Content Development
* Detailed market forecasts by technology, region,
application and content genre to 2006
Notes:
ARC Group ( http://www.arcgroup.com ) publishes in-depth strategic reports and
industry surveys and provides consultancy on broadband access, digital
broadcasting, wireless internet, wireless technologies and infrastructure,
telematics and optical communications. For more information on this report or
any of ARC`s other products and services, please contact Ellie Lux on
+44-1483-543-505 (elizabeth.lux@arcgroup.com).
CONTACT: Ellie Lux of ARC Group, +44-1483-543-505 orelizabeth.lux@arcgroup.com
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