This document analyzes the connected home market, providing a scorecard comparing different connected devices and platforms. It examines sectors like connected TVs, games consoles, media streamers, and servers. Non-video services like streaming music and cloud gaming are also discussed. The role of network-attached storage and evolving home networking technologies are analyzed. Case studies look at partnerships between Orange and LG for connected TVs and Orange's Livebox home gateway strategy.

1. Connected Home: Beyond the PC
08 September 2010
Informa Telecoms & Media
Table of Contents:
Connected Home Executive Summary – Powerpoint file
Executive summary – introduction ......................................................page 1
Fig. 1: iPlayer, program requests by platform, Dec-09
Fig. 2: Australia, iView visits via PS3, Nov-09
Fig. 3: Selected markets, premium video services by connected-TV provider
Fig. 4: Japan, AcTVila subscriptions, Nov-07 to Sep-09
Informa’s connected home scorecard: results and analysis...............page 5
Fig. 1: Connected-home score card
Fig. 2: Connected-home score card, final weighted scores by platform/device, Aug-10
Fig. 3: Connected-home score card, popularity and usage scores by device/service, Aug-10
Fig. 4: Connected-home score card, content scores by device/service, Aug-10
Fig. 5: Leading devices by service type provision, Aug-10
Fig. 6: Connected-home score card, technical features scores by device/service, Aug-10
Fig. 7: Connected-home score card, partnering, competition and resources scores by device/service,
Aug 10
Fig. 8: Device functionality and manufacturer partnering, competition and resources, Connected
home scorecard, Aug-10
Fig. 9: Connected-home score card, connected TV scores, all categories, Aug-10
Fig. 10: Connected-home score card, console scores, all categories, Aug-10
Fig. 11: Connected-home score card, media streamers and media servers scores, all categories,
Aug-10
Fig. 12: Connected-home score card, connected device platforms, all categories, Aug-10
Fig. 13: Connected-home score card, IPTV scores, all categories, Aug-10
Sector analysis: connected TVs..........................................................page 15
Fig. 1: Global, selected connected-TV providers, May-10
Fig. 2: Selected markets, premium video services by connected-TV provider
Fig. 3: Philips, No. of Net-TV applications and services, by country, 2010
Fig. 4: US, prices of connected and unconnected TVs, selected manufacturers
Fig. 5: Connected-TV manufacturers’ content strategies
Fig. 6: Key challenges in developing applications for connected TVs using CE-HTML
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2. Fig. 7: France, share of TV-device and pay-TV markets, by company, 1Q10
Fig. 8: Japan, AcTVila subscriptions, Nov-07 to Sep-09
Case study: Orange and LG Electronics’ connected-TV partnership………….page 23
Fig. 1: Selected markets, premium video services by connected-TV provider
Fig. 2: SWOT Analysis: Orange and LG's connected-TV partnership
Fig. 3: France, share of TV-device and pay-TV markets, by company, 1Q10
Fig. 4: Orange, TV-subscription penetration of households of selected countries, 4Q09
Sector analysis: games consoles............................................................page 28
Fig. 1: Nongame services offered by the big three games consoles, Feb-10
Fig. 2: Global, pay-TV and catch-up services offered via games consoles, Jan-10
Fig. 3: iPlayer, program requests by platform, Dec-09
Fig. 4: Australia, iView visits via PS3, Nov-09
Fig. 5: BBC iPlayer, selected program requests by platform, Jul-Dec 09
Fig. 6: Use of Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash by selected online-video services, Feb-10
Sector analysis: media streamers.........................................................page 34
Fig. 1: Global, features of selected media-streaming devices, Jun-10
Fig. 2: US, premium-video-service availability on selected media-streaming devices, Jul-10
Sector analysis: media servers................................................................page 38
Fig. 1: Media server models to the TV
Fig. 2: US, media-server providers, Sep-09
Fig. 3: Development of the home-media-server market
Fig. 4: Boxee partners, Sep-09
Sector analysis: Platforms for connected devices........................page 43
Non-video services in the connected home: streaming music............page 46
Fig. 1: UK, consumers' music listening by place/device, 2010
Fig. 2: Global, music-streaming services' availability on selected devices
Fig. 3: UK, share of radio listening by platform, 4Q08-4Q09
Non-video services in the connected home: cloud gaming............ page 51
Fig. 1: Global, selected broadband-operator games services, Sep-09
Fig. 2: Comparison of cloud gaming and console gaming
Fig. 3: Global, selected cloud-gaming developments, Oct-09
Fig. 4: Technical requirements for cloud gaming
Fig. 5: SWOT analysis, operators as cloud gaming providers
Fig. 6: OnLive, announced games-publisher partners and titles
Fig. 7: Selected services, approximate bandwidth usages
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3. The evolving connected home network: future in-home networking……….page 58
Fig .1: Modes of content delivery around the home
Fig.2: Competing wireless home networking technologies
Fig. 3: Global, Homeplug, product shipments, Apr-06 to Jan-09
Fig. 4: Connected-home-technologies scorecard
Fig. 5: The connected home as a value-added-services platform
Case study: Orange’s Livebox home gateway strategy..................page 64
Fig. 1: Livebox family, features by main device versions, May-10
Fig. 2: Global, availability of Livebox-family devices by country, May-10
Fig. 3: France, selected fixed-broadband tariffs, Mar-10
Fig. 4: Global, Livebox offers by selected countries, May-10
Fig. 5: France, additional Livebox-related products and services, Jun-10
Fig. 6: Orange, contracts by service type in selected countries, 1Q07-1Q10
Fig. 7: Orange, broadband ARPU in selected countries, 1Q07-1Q10
Fig. 8: Orange, share of fixed-broadband, TV and fixed-voice markets of selected countries,
1Q07-4Q09
Fig. 9: Orange’s Livebox strategy, SWOT analysis, Jun-10
The evolving connected home network: the role of network-attached storage…...page 74
Fig. 1: Storage of different types of media
Fig.2: NAS device streaming media around the digital home
Fig. 3: Specifications of selected NAS devices, Jul-10
Fig. 4: NAS device, SWOT analysis
The future of the connected home: Winners, losers and predictions……....page 78
Connected Home scorecard – Excel file
Internet-enabled devices and corresponding services – Excel file
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