Analysts and leading company executives, including Vivint Smart Home, Rovi, AT&T Digital Life, Schneider Electric, Comcast and Hewlett-Packard, all took part in panel discussions.
A major highlight of interest was analytical data presented by Parks Associates’ entertainment and connected CE analysts, relating to the top ten disruptors in the entertainment industry.
From the article "Parks Associates Focus On Top 10 Entertainment Disruptors" by Greg Vellante.
Pay-TV operators are seeing a "slow erosion of the core business," analyst Brett Sappington at Parks Associates said. "After years of attempts to be more than just a 'dumb pipe,' pay-TV operators h...
The latest Parks Associates study is out, and it has more bad news for traditional pay TV companies. Once again, satellite and cable companies are seeing losses. And it’s not just streaming services t...
As services like Netflix and Hulu boom, he said, television companies are looking for ways they can hold onto more of those streaming revenues themselves. The changes are especially noticeable at H...
Beyond that, AT&T also gets revenue by licensing those movies and TV series to other pay-TV providers and subscription Net TV services such as Netflix. "Video and entertainment will remain the key dri...
