Consumer Converged Services: Opportunities for Service Providers

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Home Networking Elements
• Top Ten Home Networking Applications
  • Networking PCs and Peripherals
  • Stream PC Content to the TV or Other Devices
  • View Recorded TV Content on Other Devices
  • Listen to PC Music on Home Stereo
  • Interactive IP sessions
  • Home Automation (Remote Control of Home Appliances)
  • Video Surveillance
  • Content Storage
  • Content Acquisition
  • Unified Communications
• Household Spending
• Home Networking Services
• Observations on Converged Services
• Methodology
• Related In-Stat Reports
• Appendix
  • Teens & Twenties
  • Wired, Wireless & Wealthy
  • Empty Nesters
  • Broadband Boomers
  • Toddlers & TiVos
  • Deals & Discounts

• Table 1. Consumer Monthly Spending and Substitution Opportunities
• Table 2. 2007 Revenue Opportunities by Home Network Application
• Table 3. Percentage of Broadband Households with Home Networks (by Device Type)
• Table 4. Interest in Streaming PC Videos to a Primary TV Equipped with a DVR/PVR
• Table 5. Interest in Streaming PC Videos Over Home Network to TVs in Other Rooms
• Table 6. Interest in Using a DVR/PVR that Allows Recording Broadcast Content and Viewing on a TV in Another Room
• Table 7. Interest in Reserving an IPTV Video Channel for Personal/Household Use (by Age Group)
• Table 8. Interest in Sharing Images and Video Content being Viewed on TV with Family and Friends (by Age Group)
• Table 9. Interest in Using TV for Interactive Chat Sessions
• Table 10. Interest in Home Automation Systems
• Table 11. Interest in Home Security Services
• Table 12. Interest in Accessing a Library of Recently Televised (5 Years or Less) Sporting Events, TV Programming, and Movies that can be Selected by Video-on-Demand (by Age Group)
• Table 13. Interest in the See-What-I-See
• Table 14. Interest in Using the TV to Receive Voice/Video Calls
• Table 15. Interest in Making VoIP Calls from a Mobile Handset
• Table 16. Monthly Spending on Communication and Entertainment
• Table 17. Breakdown of Monthly Household Expenditures on Communication Services and Entertainment
• Table 18. Substitution Opportunities to Capture Existing Entertainment Spending
• Table 19. Comparison of Home Networking Applications by Market Opportunity and Buying Decision Type
• Table 20. Revenue from Services Supporting Home Networking Applications

• Figure 1. Home Networking Functional Elements
• Figure 2. Interest in Viewing TV Content on PCs and Other Devices
• Figure 3. Broadband Households Participating in Online Gaming
• Figure 4. Broadband Households Taking and Storing Digital Pictures at Least Once per Week
• Figure 5. Broadband Households Downloading MP3 Files
• Figure 6. Broadband Households Use of PVRs for Recording Video Content
• Figure 7. Broadband Households Using Video-on-Demand Once per Week
• Figure 8. Interest in Streaming Video Clips to/from Any Device