The Worldwide Market for Digital Television on the Personal Computer - 2007 Edition

In its recently-published report, “The Worldwide Market for Digital Television on the Personal Computer - 2007 Edition, ” IMS Research provides an in-depth look at the rapidly-evolving market for digital TV tuners for the PC. Designed to inform those trying to find their niche in this market it provides a forecast for more than 350 of its potential segments. This study provides 5-year forecasts for the semiconductor and software content of the set-top box and delivers key findings such as:

• PCTV receivers have quickly grown to account for 13% of all digital terrestrial TV receiver shipments.
• ATSC PCTV tuner card shipments have doubled between 2006 and 2007.
• Asia is forecast to gain 8 points of unit shipment share between 2007 and 2012.
• Total Worldwide shipments of PCTV receivers are forecast to increase more than nine fold between 2007 and 2012.
• Smaller PCTV card makers are loosing share to the major players as the market concentrates into the hands of those companies that have built both economies of scale and extensive expertise in PCTV.
• Hybrid (analog + digital) card volumes are forecast to take a roller-coaster ride, with volumes peaking in 2008, dropping to half that volume in by 2010 only to start growing again in 2012.

The report' s features include:

• Detailed unit shipment analysis of PCTV receivers by standard and application from 2006 through 2012
• Analysis of PCTV receiver shipments supporting, fixed digital terrestrial TV standards, mobile TV standards, and applicable combinations of the two
• Market shares of the top ATSC and DVB-T Tuner Card Suppliers
• Profiles of major PCTV card suppliers including financial analysis for publicly traded companies
• Analysis of the potential market for PCTV tuners including both PC Shipments and DTV households segmented by Digital Terrestrial standard
• Extensive analysis of upside and downside risks influencing the PCTV market, including complete optimistic and pessimistic scenario statistics by region, application, and standard

Semis & Software in Set-top Boxes 2007 provides unique insights on the market for the PCTV tuners. It builds on IMS Research' s comprehensive coverage of the digital television and mobile TV markets and includes coverage of PC TV tuner cards by fixed (DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, DMB-T⁄H) and mobile (DVB-H, T-DMB, ISDB-T 1Seg, FLO, ATSC-M/H, CMMB) TV standard supported, form factor (portable vs. desktop vs. USB) for five regions.