World Consumer Electronics Market - Markets at 2013 & Forecasts to 2018
Market segments
Digital media boxes
The set-top box segment includes four sub-segments:
Digital media boxes
- Home video game consoles
- Blu-ray player/recorders
- Digital media adapters, also known as multimedia gateways, which allow users to read audio and video content and images from other storage sources and display/play them on the TV screen. Digital media recorders are DMAs capable of recording programmes off the TV. They may come with a built-in hard drive, but the current trend tends to be DMRs without a hard drive.
- Desktop computers
- Laptop computers. This sub-segment includes netbooks and notebooks.
- The television segment includes LCD screens: LED, plasma and OLED. These sub-segments are not displayed separately in the database.
The set-top box segment includes four sub-segments:
- cable STB
- Satellite STB
- Terrestrial TV STB
- IPTV STB
- Smartphones
- Handheld video game consoles
- Media tablets
- Domestic shipments (million units)
- Installed base (million units), including an average replacement rate for each category of device
- Connectable domestic shipment (million units)
- Connectable installed base (million units)
- Penetration rate for connectable devices (% of households)
- Relationship between the percentage of homes equipped with a connectable device and the percentage equipped with this specific device (%).