{"id":1390,"date":"2012-02-13T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/from-physical-to-digital-networking-to-revolutionise-home-audio-market\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:40:34","slug":"from-physical-to-digital-networking-to-revolutionise-home-audio-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/from-physical-to-digital-networking-to-revolutionise-home-audio-market\/","title":{"rendered":"From Physical To Digital: Networking To Revolutionise Home Audio Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realmdigital.co.za\/images\/uploaded_images\/web-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"128\" \/><br \/>By 2014, 60% of all home audio shipments across the USA,  Western Europe and Japan will feature networking connectivity, according to  Futuresource Consulting, rising from forecasts of 10% in 2012 as networking  takes over as the major growth area.  <!--more-->  <br \/>As more consumers embrace the online  revolution, packaged music sales are slowing, though revenues of $14 billion are  expected for 2011 once final figures are in, more than doubling online sales of  $6 billion. Through to 2015, forecasts show that online growth cannot offset the  decline in packaged media.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the hardware, speaker docks  dominate home audio shipments with expectations for this segment to account for  almost 60% of the market in 2011. However, as iPod sales reach maturity, demand  for dedicated speaker docks will also follow a similar path.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely,  iPhone and iPad sales are still on the rise and fuelling a demand for speakers  with networking capabilities. Subscription services and internet radio are also  driving more interest in networking, and with the inclusion of Wi-Fi enabled  devices, consumers can stream music directly through installed apps rather than  relying on embedded technology.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread interest in networking  connectivity has also been triggered by Apple&#8217;s Airplay which transmits content  from iTunes to audio devices via a wireless connection. Competitor brands have  recognised the need to eliminate physical docking and consequently adopted the  networking revolution fuelling a growth in networked devices throughout their  product portfolio. Additional technologies including Bluetooth will also play an  increasing role, especially for Android device owners. This in turn is giving  more consumers the ability to stream content directly from the internet through  multiple connected devices, with growth in multi-room audio expected as a  result.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Apple<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2014, 60% of all home audio shipments across the USA, Western Europe and Japan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}