Expect further consolidation among TV middleware vendors, ABI...
Expect further consolidation among TV middleware vendors, ABI Research said. Already about 80 percent of sales within the sector, which ABI says includes middleware, conditional access and digital rights management tools, come from companies with end-to-end solutions such as Cisco,…
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Microsoft and Rovi. The rest of the sales belong to startups, it said. “We expect the TV middleware market to continue its consolidation phase,” said Sam Rosen, a practice director at ABI Research. “First, hardware and software companies will come together to offer more of a service oriented approach,” he said. “Second, acquisitions bringing together technologies required for the next generation TV offering will occur,” he said.