The Multimedia Marketplace in the Private Household — Some Observations and Comments

Abstract

Writing an article on the multimedia marketplace of the private households, one is confronted with the readers expectations. These might include to read chapters on a comprehensive description of the status quo of the multimedia applications of the private households, a glance of the current technological discussion, and finally a — quantitative — forecast of the future shape of the market. This contribution is different: It simply states some observations that the author picked up during the first quarter of this year, and it tries to show that even the topic of the article is fuzzy in nature. Instead of a in-depth analysis of the terms “multimedia” and “private”, the article immediately leads to the illustrations of some “waves”, the reader might wish to draw his/her own deductions regarding the shape and size of the “paddles”.