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Market Landscape

Since the early days of the Internet, delivering high quality digital multimedia has been a highly sought after goal. However, the constraints of network bandwidth, processor performance and consumer technology adoption rates have relegated the use of video on the Internet today to novelty applications.

Content providers and users have been forced to deal with “postage stamp” size player screens rendering distorted, low-resolution video that presents a disappointing digital experience.

While this digital media compromise can be explained away in terms of infrastructure, file size and cost constraints, the vast untapped market for video applications will not be fully realized until the image quality and delivery is no longer a distraction from the user experience. The technology needs to become invisible, just like today’s TVs and DVD players.

DigitalStream-USA™ next-generation XVD™ technology will enable the proliferation of high-resolution video applications over IP networks years sooner than earlier thought possible. The company’s core technology dovetails nicely with the proliferation of other enabling infrastructure, such as broadband terrestrial and wireless Internet access, home wireless networks, Internet enabled PDA’s and cell phones. The continued growth in these markets, as shown below, pave the way for a wide range of IP network based video distribution for both narrow-band width and broadband applications.

 

 

Unit Sales FY 2002 FY 2005
Video Servers 1,000,000 8,000,000
DVD Set Top Boxes 22,000,000 60,000,000
PDAs 11,000,000 85,000,000
Personal Computers 140,000,000 200,000,000
Cell Phones 420,000,000 570,000,000
Source: DigitalStream-USA company data
 
 
 

 

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