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Mark Wehrmeister
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Report sees 255M Web-ready TVs sold in 2014
Rick Merritt
8/26/2010 12:08 PM EDT
About five percent of U.S. homes with broadband service will buy connected TVs this year, about four million units, Parks products. About six million will buy connected Blu-ray players.
"More than a third of HDTV displays sold this year will be Web connected and upwards of 75 percent of Blu-ray drives sold this year will be connected," Scherf said.
In the first half of this year Sony and Samsung led the way in connected TV sales with 23 and 20 percent of the market respectively. LG, Vizio and Panasonic followed with about nine percent each.
Devices to specifically link the home TV and PC are also on the rise with projected sales of about six million units this year. Many use Wi-Fi or its variants, although at least two companies are using ultrawideband links.
Growth in U.S. online movie sales through consumer devices is forecast to rise from about $700 million in 2010 to more than $5 billion in 2014. That's still a fraction of the multibillion dollar DVD rental business, but an increasingly large one, Scherf said.
"DVDs won't fade away but they will certainly be supplemented," said Scherf. "Online video will slowly replace the retail DVD store," he said.
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rick.merritt
8/26/2010 4:40 PM EDT
What will you do with your Web-connected TV?
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junko.yoshida
8/26/2010 5:04 PM EDT
I think this whole notion of Web-connected TV will become obsolete soon.
Sure, many of us have had an experience -- say, a family sitting in a living room is watching TV, while one of the family members with a notebook PC opened, trying to show us something he found on the Net: "Hey, look at this!"
It can be YouTube video clips or the past video shows now only available on the Internet. There are moments you wish you could get your TV connected to the Web.
But the emphasis won't be so much on bringing the Web to TV; but it should be allowing you to search and watch what you want to watch now on TV -- whether that content resides on the Web, DVR or in broadcast.
I know, maybe I drank too much koolaid talking to Sony on Google TV.
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Mark Wehrmeister
8/29/2010 10:53 PM EDT
The TV is becoming nothing more than a big computer monitor that the family can all watch together. With the wide availability now of streaming movies and television many people just watch their entertainment on their own PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. The DVD format might be slowly becoming obsolete, but I don't think we will see the death of it for many, many years. After all, even though bandwidth to individual homes continues to increase making streaming possible in the first place, it has a long way to go before it catches up to the bandwidth of a car full of DVDs!
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