‘Smart TV’ Homes to Reach 230 Million by 2014

SCOTTSDALE: The number of homes with web-enabled consumer-electronics devices, delivering access to online content portals, will pass 230 million by 2014, according to research from In-Stat.

“Consumer adoption of online applications, using web-enabled CE devices, will be regionalized, or in some cases, country-specific,” said Keith Nissen, principal analyst at In-Stat. “For example, in China, there is very little licensed video entertainment content available for delivery over the Internet. In contrast, the availability of online video entertainment in Europe and North America is expected to grow substantially over the next five years. The primary markets for web-enabled CE devices will correlate to where online video is also available.”

The report also finds that in 2014, nearly 70 percent of digital TVs shipped will be network-enabled, although many will not be web-enabled. And the vast majority of Blu-ray disc players and recorders shipped will be both network-enabled and web-enabled devices.