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The Future of Home Entertainment. Moderator: Steffen Bartschat SVP Engineering, Sonic Solutions & Co-chair, GABA Software IG sbartschat@comcast.net 05 November 2009. Our Panelists. Jeff Klugman - SVP/GM at TiVo. Jim Taylor - SVP & Chief Technologist at Sonic Solutions.
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The Future of Home Entertainment Moderator: Steffen Bartschat SVP Engineering, Sonic Solutions & Co-chair, GABA Software IG sbartschat@comcast.net 05 November 2009
Our Panelists • Jeff Klugman - SVP/GM at TiVo. • Jim Taylor - SVP & Chief Technologist at Sonic Solutions. • Roland Vlaicu - Director of Technical Marketing, Dolby. • Todd Collart - SVP New Media at Deluxe Digital Studios. • Michael McGuire – VP Research at Gartner. • Jerry Pierce – CEO/Founder at AZEC, Inc, and former SVP Technology, Universal Pictures.
Overview: Technology in Transition • High Definition TV • Blu-ray Disc • 3D • Set-top box / DVR • Smart TVs • Delivery • Casual Consumption & Device Integration • Media Server • Questions • Predictions
High Definition TV • 80% own DVD player • 78% own cell phone • 71% own PC • 40% own video game system • 20% own home theatre system Source: CTAM
Blu-Ray Source: FutureSource Consulting
3D • Cinema: 30 releases in 3D in 2009 • 3D produces 3x revenue of 2D • 3D TV programming “widely accessible” by 2011..(?) Graph Source: Quixel Research
Set-top Box / DVR • Time Shift (DVR) • Place Shift (e.g. Slingbox) • The “Google of Television” – TiVo CEO Tom Rogers Graph Source: ZenithOptimedia/Nielsen
DVRs Are Changing TV/Ad Viewing ViewersTimeshifting ViewersFastforwarding TiVo Inc. Proprietary Information 8
Where are the commercials? Live Near Live (within 1 hour) 1-6 hour delay 4.6 hour – 2 week delay 10.0% 7.5% 5.0% 2.5% 0.0% Percentage of Viewers in Play Speed Time into Program (Ticks at 10 Minutes) Grey’s Anatomy – ‘Staring at the Sun’ TiVo Inc. Proprietary Information 9
Smart TV • iPhone: 2B downloads, 100,000 apps! • “With iPhone everything changed, we think a similar thing could happen on TVs” – Eric Kim, SVP Intel Graph Source: Parks Associates
“Sofa Factor” Source: The Nielsen Company
Delivery • DVD-by-mail business will peak in 5-10 years – Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix • “The concept of a flat-rate infinitely expandable service is unachievable” – Dick Lynch, CTO Verizon Graph Source: Kaufman Bros., Zoomerang
Device Integration – the Apple Factor • Apple TV – set top box - future DVR? • iTunes – content delivery vehicle & app store! • iPod, iPhone – casual portability “Apple could leverage its deep library of content with many network and cable channel content owners to provide unlimited access to a sub-library of its TV shows for a standard monthly fee” – Gene Munster, analyst Piper Jaffray $30-$40/month for iTunes vs. $85/month for Cable? Graph Source: Apple Inc.
Missing in Action: Media Server • Remember 2007? • “As a software platform and an “always on” device in the home, Windows Home Server offers independent software vendors tremendous opportunities to build innovative products for the digital home. Microsoft anticipates that a wide range of third-party applications and tools will emerge for Windows Home Server, such as family schedule management, home automation systems, security solutions and more. “ – Microsoft, Jan 2007
Time-Shifting is pervasive in DVR Homes and increases in Primetime About 30M DVR households in US today; +50 M in 3 years Total Live Time-shifted