The TV Connected Market | 53 Million Devices in 3rd Quarter

There's a page over on the right called "Further Digging" It's been getting a lot of interesting stuff lately. 

For a potential of MicroVision, I have been using a 10% of the cellphone market as a target. It's admittedly arbitrary. 1.2 Billion cellphones were sold in 2014. I expect those numbers to stabilize or even decline in the coming years. (I don't think it's reasonable to expect that nearly 20% of the people on earth will continue to get a new smart phone every year.)

So, this popped up as ONE of the other markets. These are things that connect to televisions. (There are MANY other places where informational displays are used and needed) The market for PicoP is NOT restricted to Cellphones and TV connected devices.

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53 Million Devices in 3rd Quarter

Shipments of connected TV devices reach 53 mln units in Q3

Friday 27 November 2015 | 14:30 CET | News

Global shipments of all connected TV devices (including smart TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles and digital media streamers) reached 53 million units in Q3 and are on target to hit 221 million units for the full year, representing growth of 17 percent, according to a report by the new Strategy Analytics. The digital media streamer shipments reached 9.2 million in Q3. Google Chromecast is first on this market with a market share of 35 percent, ahead of AppleTV with 20 percent, Amazon Fire TV and Roku with 16 percent each, and others with 13 percent.

Samsung continues to dominate the global smart TV market from LG and Sony and it now accounts for 1 in 4 smart TVs in use worldwide. During the quarter, Philips joined Sony and Sharp in offering smart TVs with Google’s Android TV platform in a number of its mid to high end ranges. Android TV captured an estimated 8-10 percent share of the overall smart TV market during Q3.

Within the game console market, Sony shipped more than double the number of consoles as Microsoft in the quarter although the Xbox One is expected to close the gap on the PS4 during the final quarter thanks to its appealing 1st and 3rd party bundles.