Ho-Hum IPTV is Software Dev Opportunity
8 January 2009 by Steve Blum
CES2019, cisco, consumer electronics, content navigation, hard disk drive, iptv, netgear, software, solid state drive, sony
CES2019, cisco, consumer electronics, content navigation, hard disk drive, iptv, netgear, software, solid state drive, sony
Internet protocol television is the it’s-good-to-be-boring story of CES 2009. Everyone (or nearly so), from Netgear to Sony, integrates some kind of IPTV functionality in their consumer product lines. It’s going from being a distinct and geeky category to just being a standard feature of mainstream television products.
It’s good news for software developers and component manufacturers. Drive manufacturers, to pick one example, have an opportunity to sell their products into television sets, more set top boxes (not just DVRs), and home media centers.… More