Infonetics: Video Infrastructure Markets Growing Despite Challenges; Big Year for Multi-Screen TV

CAMPBELL, Calif. –(Business Wire)–

Market research firm Infonetics
Research released excerpts from 2 recent video reports, Video-on-Demand
(VOD) and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscribers, which tracks
equipment sold to telco IPTV,
cable video, and satellite video providers, and Set-Top
Boxes and Subscribers, which tracks IP, cable, satellite, and
hybrid set-top boxes (STBs)
and over-the-top (OTT)
media servers.

ANALYST NOTE

“2012 will be a watershed year for TV
Everywhere services, as operators across the globe closely watch Comcast (News – Alert),
Cablevision and Time Warner Cable to see if adding these
services will have a positive impact on subscriber churn and revenue,”
expects Jeff
Heynen, directing analyst for broadband access and video at Infonetics
Research. “TV Everywhere and other multi-screen video initiatives
are fundamentally changing the TV business model, with apps streaming
live TV to iPads, and telcos and cable companies offering home
automation, security, and video conferencing to subscribers in an effort
to make the TV the hub of the digital home.”

Heynen
adds: “Demand for digital, HD,
and premium video content and services will continue to drive revenue
growth in the VOD and encoder market, but the set-top box market won’t
fare as well: despite increasing demand, overall STB revenue is expected
to decline starting in 2013, due to falling ASPs.”

VOD AND ENCODER MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• Infonetics (News – Alert) forecasts the global video infrastructure market, including
  IPTV, cable and satellite video infrastructure, to grow 9% in 2012, to
  over $875 million
• 5 players hold more than 2/3 of the global VOD and streaming content
  server market: Huawei, Motorola, Cisco, ZTE (News – Alert), and Concurrent
• Much of the future growth in the video infrastructure market will come
  from MPEG-4
  HD encoders
• China is on pace to outspend all regions on VOD and streaming content
  server gear as operators including China Telecom and China
  Unicom add VOD streams
• Infonetics expects the number of IPTV (News – Alert) subscribers to more than double
  from 2012 to 2016, when it will hit 168 million worldwide, with the
  majority in Asia and Europe

VOD AND ENCODER REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ quarterly VOD
and Encoder Equipment and Video Subscribers report tracks revenue,
streams, and channels for VOD and streaming content servers, and
standard and high definition (SD
and HD) MPEG-2
and MPEG-4 video encoders, as well as telco IPTV, analog and digital
cable video, and satellite video subscribers. The worldwide and regional
market share, market size, analysis, and forecast report tracks Anevia,
ARRIS, Cisco, Concurrent, Edgeware, Ericsson, Harmonic (News – Alert), Huawei,
Motorola, OptiBase, Thomson Video Networks, UTStarcom, ZTE, and
others. To buy
the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.

SET-TOP BOX MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• Infonetics forecasts the overall set-top box market, including cable,
  satellite, IP and hybrid IP/DTT STBs, to grow modestly in 2012, to
  $14.7 billion
• Future STB revenue declines will be offset in part by a shift from
  cable STBs to hybrid IP/QAM STBs and from satellite STBs to hybrid
  IP/DVB-S STBs – the fastest growing STB segment
• Motorola maintains its worldwide revenue share lead among
  set-top box manufacturers, followed very closely by Cisco and Pace
• North America remains the most lucrative market for set-top boxes,
  with an STB average selling price (ASP) of over $150

SET-TOP BOX REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics’ quarterly STB
and subscribers report provides market size, market share, analysis,
and forecasts through 2016, tracking ADB, Amino, Cisco, Coship,
Dasan, DVN, Echostar, Huawei, Humax, Jiuzhou, Motorola, Netgem, Pace,
Sagemcom, Samsung, Skyworth Digital, Sumitomo, Technicolor, ZTE, and
others. The report tracks IP STBs, digital and hybrid IP/QAM cable STBs,
satellite and hybrid IP/DVB-S STBs, hybrid IP/DTT STBs, digital video
recorder (DVR)
STBs, HD STBs, OTT media servers, telco IPTV subscribers, analog and
digital cable video subscribers, and satellite video subscribers. To buy
the report, contact Infonetics sales: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.

RELATED RESEARCH

• Latest Infonetics Video research brief: http://bit.ly/Nz0qcT
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• Video
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• IPTV
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  on-demand
• Carriers
  identify critical IP set-top box features in new survey

UPCOMING VIDEO MARKET RESEARCH

Download Infonetics report highlights, tables of contents, etc. at http://www.infonetics.com/login
(see VIDEO) or download Infonetics’ 2012 Research Calendar at http://bit.ly/zwjcRs.

• IPTV
  Service Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey
• 2Q12
  Set-Top Boxes & Subscribers Market Share & Forecast
• 2Q12
  VOD & Encoder Equipment & Video Subscribers Market Share & Forecast
• Pay-TV
  Services & Subscribers
• Multi-Screen
  TV Service Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey

TO BUY REPORTS, CONTACT SALES:

N. America (West), Asia, Latin America: Larry Howard, larry@infonetics.com,
+1 408-583-3335

N. America (East), Texas, Midwest: Scott Coyne, scott@infonetics.com,
+1 408-583-3395

Europe, Middle East, Africa: George Stojsavljevic, george@infonetics.com,
+44 755-488-1623

Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

INFONETICS IS HIRING

Infonetics is expanding rapidly and is looking to hire more analysts,
including a senior Industry Analyst: Mobile and Home Networking
Devices; Market Analyst: Enterprise VoIP; Market Research Manager;
and more. See http://bit.ly/jmXOYO
for job descriptions.

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com)
is an international market research and consulting firm serving the
communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking
emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics
helps clients plan, strategize, and compete effectively.

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