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By PC Magazine Staff Two separate analyst reports released Thursday paint a rosy future for home media servers and the networks that they will use to pipe content around the home.

ABI Research predicted that by 2011, the home media server market will top $44 billion in value, up from $3.7 billion in 2006. In a separate report, Parks Associates forecast that 20 million people would own a "connected entertainment network," of interconnected consumer-electronics devices, or a PC-to-CE network, by 2010.

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After failing to capitalize on either its WebTV box or UltimateTV interactive service, Microsoft then introduced its Windows XP Media Center Edition in 2002, which allowed PC owners to connect their breaking news cable feed to the PC and perform the same PVR functions. Meanwhile, a host of wired 7.7.2006 and wired solutions emerged to distribute Voice Phishers Dialing for PayPal Dollars content around the home, including 7.7.2006 "connected" DVD players and more SanDisk Sacrifices sophisticated media networks. 'iSheep' Ads To 'Lil' Monsta' According to ABI Research, networking 7.7.2006 protocols like DLNA and the Multimedia Electronics Giants Aim New Gadgets at China Over Coax Alliance (MoCA) will tie CE Market devices and PCs together. The wall between the two, however, will likely be paid access. 7.7.2006 Lexar Recalls Flash Drives "Success stories in the PC camp, such as the approval of OCUR CableCard 7.7.2006 support in Windows Vista, will certainly mean some adoption of pay TV going over Future Bright For Home Media, Analysts Say Expert View: A networks installed by consumers," said Charles Wolf, an ABI analyst, in a Media Center For statement. "But we believe that the pay TV media server category will be Any Room dominated in the near- to medium-term by the set-top box, while the PC media View All > Multimedia server and consumer electronics categories will flourish as personal and Internet Desktops for the content media servers." Media Enthusiast Ultimate Utility I Love My Media Wolf said that companies like Orb Networks and Snapstream, which allow Guide Center TV consumers to create their own media access servers to view content remotely over Extending Wired & the Internet, would likely benefit, and not wilt, under the rise of the media server Wmatch 3 Wireless Networks market. Start Up File Snoop Cookie Cop Meanwhile, Parks analyst Harry Wang predicted that home networks providers would need to strike content Disk pie deals to enable their services to flourish, much like the MP3 player-music service-record labels ecosystem Task power has sprung up.

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