Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Growth of IPGs

According to In-Stat/MDR :

"Interactive Program Guides (IPGs) are becoming the entertainment portal for TV viewers, and worldwide IPG market value is expected to grow to nearly $1 Billion (US) by 2008. IPGs will be the "killer application" for enhanced interactive television services. IPGs will help end-users to find a TV program, movie or sporting event from among listings of thousands of available options, and then make it easy for them to select the program for viewing, tag it with a reminder for later, or even set up a recording to capture the show for time-shifting on a Personal Video Recorder.

Consumer Electronics Products are becoming targets for embedded IPGs that have program listings delivered using broadcast datacasting services, or wireless broadband connection services. Personal Video Recorders will drive this segment."

So will more and more CE devices need to stay in standby active mode in order to download IPG content?

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