High-tech market research firm In-Stat expects the multiformat transcoder market to grow to nearly $300 million by 2014, and says TV service providers across America may buy the equipment in large number to deliver the content through multiple platforms.
But the robust market, according to analyst firm, will pave the way for vendors to acquire the smaller rivals in a desperate attempt to garner a larger slice of the market.
Those vendors include AmberFin, Anystream, ATEME, Digital Rapids, Elemental, Envivio, Harmonic (News - Alert), Inlet Technologies, Media Excel, RadiantGrid Technologies, RipCode, Telestream, and ViewCast.
According to the research firm, worldwide revenues from enterprise-class multiformat transcoders will grow to $297 million in 2014. Though most of the transcoders would be shipped to the countries in the North America, EMEA and Asian countries may not stay behind when it came to purchasing the equipment.
However, the analyst firm suggests that the multiformat transcoders must adapt the content to accommodate multiple different codecs, network bandwidth characteristics, and device screen sizes and resolutions.“The transcoder market is mostly comprised of small vendors who were formed to serve a particular segment,” says Michelle Abraham, Principal Analyst. “In-Stat (News - Alert) expects some small vendors will be acquired by larger companies in the next few years in order to round out a company’s product portfolio.”
Transcoder technology is vital to Internet and mobile video distribution. That’s why the increasing trend to upload video content on the Internet is believed to be major driver behind growth in market for multiformat transcoders.
Over the next several years, top-tier pay-TV service providers are most likely to invest in multiformat transcoding equipment in order to provide these services to their subscribers.
The report contains revenue forecast for file-based multiformat transcoders by region through 2014, and worldwide revenue forecast for live multiformat transcoders by region through 2014.
Narayan Bhat is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Narayan’s articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by Beecher Tuttle