Parks Associates produces market research reports and industry analysis regarding advanced residential technologies and consumer perceptions about these products and services. Parks Associates’ research focus:

• new media

• digital entertainment and gaming

• home networks

• Internet and television services

• digital health

• mobile applications and services

• consumer electronics

• home control systems and security

Download the official Program Guide for the CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit held in Berlin on 29 Aug.

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• Virtual Worlds and Social Media

• Mobile Broadband in North America and Europe: Change is Key to Continuing Profitability

• e-Health Opportunities for Global Service Providers

• No Way to Regulate: Mobile TV in Europe

• Know Thy Customer: Customer Analytics to Drive Value-added Services

• Super Buyers

• TV Services in Europe: Update and Outlook

• Europe: Home Network Update

• How Hollywood Can Out-Apple Apple

• Consumer Technology: Key Trends and Outlook for 2008

• The Global Opportunities for Digital Health Applications

• IPTV in Europe: Digital TV in a Hyper-competitive Market

• Europe’s Home Networking Boom

Event Summaries

This download area also includes summaries of past CONNECTIONS events, including the most-recent CONNECTIONS™ 2008, in Santa Clara, Calif.

GLOBAL DIGITAL LIVING™
Research Presentations

Each CONNECTIONS™ Europe Summit feature presentations from Parks Associates' analysts highlighting data from the groundbreaking global research project Global Digital Living™ (GDL).

Now in its third year, GDL is a multinational research program designed to understand consumer perspectives and ecosystems for key categories of the digital home and lifestyle.

Global Digital Living™ provides baseline information to support product and marketing recommendations.

Specifically, GDL provides a quantified assessment and understanding regarding:

• Consumer preferences for high-definition media

• Ownership of TVs, home theaters, digital photo frames, and related devices

• The demand and key features for home control services

• Retail channels, pirated content, and consumer expenditures

• How the market for movies & TV programs is shifting

• How often and why consumers copy video

• The potential to use advertising and other revenue models to combat piracy

• User-generated content storage, printing, and sharing habits

• The most appealing new features for bundled/blended services

• The impact service blending will have on the demand for bundled services

• Consumer acceptance of new platforms for video services

• Price points to maximize revenues and how much revenue can be generated through digital video distribution

• How platforms and content genres impact the appeal of digital video distribution