TV in PCs is a Killer App—Users Approaching 30 Million

Posted by Jon Peddie on July 25th 2003 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA—JULY 25, 2003 • Once thought a novelty, then considered something for specialized applications such as distance learning, PCTV is becoming a "must-have" capability as users and OEMs take advantage of the PC's ability as an entertainment center device. Fueled by higher performance, bigger disk drives, faster processors and memory, today's PCs can do it all—capture TV, record it for later viewing, capture home videos, store and index photos and music, and distribute it over the air or the Web. PCTV is a major catalyst for the age of convergence, and all it takes a simple addition of a TV…

The more you can see, the more you can do. That’s the promise of using multiple displays.

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 12th 2003 | Permalink
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March 12, 2003—Jon Peddie Research has just released a market study on multi-displays. This 46-page report contains 46 charts and tables on the opportunities in the multi-display market, identifying user types, installed base, buying interests, and technology issues. There is a terrific market potential, and yet, a large portion of potential users don't know about the concept, or how to deploy such a multi-display setup. The rapidly dropping cost of flat panel displays, and the strong consumer interest in them is creating a pent up demand that begs for a response; this $US1,995 report will show the suppliers and manufactures how…

Computer users are taking their fun with them on the road

Posted by Jon Peddie on March 11th 2003 | Permalink
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March 11, 2003—The number of mobile computers being sold is increasing each year, and has been for over a decade. There have been two steady developments in mobile computing that has contributed to the use of the notebook as a portable entertainment: the screen size and its resolution. Jon Peddie Research wanted to find out if consumers are using mobile systems rather than desktop systems for entertainment. We surveyed our database of computer users, and found that they were indeed using their mobile computers to play games and/or watch videos, in fact of the respondents to the survey, 45% said they…

DVD Market: Players, Recorders, Media, and Future

Posted by Jon Peddie on February 10th 2003 | Permalink
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FEBRUARY 10, 2003 • TIBURON, CA—The DVD market is huge, and getting larger; very rapidly. No longer limited to home entertainment playback boxes, it is being combined with increasing numbers of consumer electronics products; computers, portable devices, appliances and industrial systems—DVD is everywhere. This report discusses all of these form factors plus the new integrated combo systems with DVDs in them, and offers four-year forecasts and market trends for home entertainment systems, computers, portable DVD, vehicle DVD, and DVD recorders. We include a discussion of DVD semiconductor components, their suppliers, and the software decoders and editing systems. The study is a…

PC Graphics Shipments Increase 13% in Fourth Quarter 2002; All Market

Posted by Jon Peddie on January 30th 2003 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA, January 30, 2003—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the fourth calendar quarter of 2002. Detailed fourth quarter results, as well as results for all of 2002, will be published in the upcoming Q4'02 edition of Jon Peddie's Market Watch, the firm's quarterly graphics survey. Market Watch provides an in-depth look at the PC graphics market and includes unit shipment and segment market share data, trend analysis, two-year forecasts, and profiles of major suppliers. Jon Peddie Research estimates that approximately 53 million…

PC Graphics Shipments Increase 11% in Q3 2002; Growth Limited to Chipsets with Integrated Graphics

Posted by Jon Peddie on January 15th 2003 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA, January 15, 2003—Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a leading research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, today announced the availability of the Q3'02 edition of Jon Peddie's Market Watch, the firm's quarterly graphics survey. Market Watch takes an in-depth look at activity in the PC graphics market and contains unit shipment and segment market share data, trend analysis, and two-year forecasts. The report also covers product news, design wins, financial results, and share price performance for leading graphics suppliers. Jon Peddie Research estimates that PC graphics shipments in Q3'02 increased by approximately 10% as compared to the previous quarter.…

The PC graphics industry is resilient: chip shipments decline but new product introductions increase

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 10th 2002 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA—October 10, 2002 —Leading research firm for multimedia and graphics, Jon Peddie Research, today announced the results of their Quarterly Report on the Graphics semiconductor market. The study has found the graphics industry to be relatively hardy in comparison to the computer industry as a whole. The second quarter of the year is traditionally a slow period in the graphics industry. Although shipments of graphics devices declined only slightly in Q2'02 compared to the previous quarter, the period was disappointing to many companies in terms of revenues, profits, gross margin, and share price performance. The outlook for Q3’02 continues to…

Graphics Industry shows resilience

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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TIBURON, CA—October 7, 2002 —Leading research firm for multimedia and graphics, Jon Peddie Research, today announced the results of their Quarterly Report on the Graphics semiconductor market. The study has found the graphics industry to be relatively hardy in comparison to the computer industry as a whole.The second quarter of the year is traditionally a slow period in the graphics industry. Although shipments of graphics devices declined only slightly in Q2'02 compared to the previous quarter, the period was disappointing to many companies in terms of revenues, profits, gross margin, and share price performance. The outlook for Q3’02 continues to be…

Webcast During SIGGRAPH Features Computer Graphics

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 2nd 2002 | Permalink
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MILL VALLEY, Calif.—August 2, 2002—Computer graphics has progressed amazingly in the last two years to the point where the press is saying, "Games outsell movies, and can you tell the difference anymore?" On July 24 at a standing room-only lunch during SIGGRAPH, Dr. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research and a panel of leading graphics experts engaged in a spirited discussion of whether we might have obtained "good enough" computer graphics and asked whether we at the knee of diminishing returns. They also delved into other hot issues such as the timeline for replacing real actors with virtual ones. The entire…

PC Market Consumes 30% More GPUs than CPUs – and Prices Continue to Decline, says JPR

Posted by Jon Peddie on August 1st 2002 | Permalink
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TIBURON, Calif. — August 1, 2002   According to Jon Peddie Research (JPR), graphics out ship CPUs while prices within the PC market continue to be pressured downward. Findings from JPR's Market Watch report indicate 30% of the computers that ship have two graphics devices for every x86-based processor. This, the report points out, has helped to keep the smaller suppliers in the market. "The maturation of the PC industry and the saturation of the desktop market has lead to increased consolidation amongst PC graphics suppliers," confirmed Lisa Epstein, senior analyst of JPR's Market Watch report. "Today there are just eight suppliers…