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European
multimedia usage
January
4, 2000
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Q:
Could you give me a clue where I can find the
statistics on the multimedia market for Europe?
Thanks.
Sophia
A
Sometimes I get questions for which I have no
good answer. This is one such case. I have no idea
where you might get that kind of information. I'm
sure there's probably some kind of research firm
that you could pay to provide you with that
information...but otherwise I can only suggest
doing some searching to see if there's anything out
there for free.
But
the Internet is a great resource, so as an
experiment, I went to Altavista and typed
in:
+"multimedia
market" +europe +size
Which
brought back this page: altavista
results page
From
there I found the following page of the Eurodata
Foundation:
http://www.textor.com/cms/Eurodata_Foundation.html
The
Eurodata Foundation had some interesting looking
reports, including "Evaluating the Impact of
Networked Multimedia Market Study", though it's
dated 1997 which, if Europe is like the US, is way
out of date.
On
a different link, Analysys (I don't know who
they are) had a number of reports including this
one "Competitive forces boost Internet markets
in Central and Eastern Europe"
http://193.118.248.19/NEWS/isp_ce2.htm
Cahners
In-Stat group also had reports, though the only
one I could fine that was about Europe was a bit
too old. They did have some other interesting
titles-- some only costing $1,495 USD!--including
the following:
Cable
TV Set Top Boxes: Markets & Technology
IEEE 1394 as a Competitive Strategy
MPEG Video Chip Market Share
Videoconferencing and the Market for PC
Cameras
Consumer Set Top Box Operating Systems
Home Networking: Markets, Technologies, and
Vendors
http://www.instat.com/catalog/cat-mm.htm
Then
I found the EC Information Society Promotion
Office
http://www.ispo.cec.be/
They
have many different materials, including the paper:
"Measuring
the Information
Society"
which asked the questions:
- Are
women less interested in computers ?
- Are
there large differences in the use of PCs in
Europe ?
- Has
everyone in Europe access to a fixed phoneline
?
I'm
not sure if any of these will help you, but there
is some information out there.
Good
luck.
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