Vehicle manufacturers are faced with a growing range of options for supporting digital content in the car. This requires a flexible entertainment system that allows customers to bring their music and video into the car using their preferred media and to receive digital radio across Europe.
With the research listed below, you can plan how to live with the fragmented digital environment and ensure that OE entertainment strategies are sustainable for the long-term.
This database provides an easy-to-use benchmarking tool to compare the availability, fitment strategy and retail price of the multimedia technologies included in SBD's Audio and Video market trends report titled, Developing future proof infotainment strategies in a digital world.
This report presents a vision of future in-car entertainment that have a permanent connection to the Internet. It looks at the blurring of traditional boundaries between owned and non-owned content and provides a roadmap to a world where the driver has on-demand access to whatever music they want.
The transition from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting for radio is inevitable, and yet it continues to create headaches across Europe due to the different commercial and legislative complexities in each country. This report outlines the future prospects for the most promising pan-European approach to broadcasting digital radio: Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). The report analyses the progress being made in deploying DAB services across the major European markets, and the innovations being implemented by DAB suppliers that could help increase the appeal of future DAB receivers.
This report provides a technology-by-technology outline of how in-car infotainment is likely to evolve in the next five years, and analyses how manufacturers can ensure the deployment of future-proof, compatible and user-friendly systems. The report is broken down into three sections: media storage trends (e.g. CDs), portable devices trends (e.g. USB connectivity) and broadcast trends (e.g. digital radio).
This report provides an overview of the in-car video market in Europe, focussing on playback and broadcast technologies. An outline of the various solutions adopted by vehicle manufacturers to offer video content to front and rear seat passengers is presented.
The report also analyses the changing trends for video technology in the Consumer Electronics market, in order to help vehicle manufacturers and system suppliers better understand what customers are likely to expect from future in-car entertainment systems.
The range of audio & video features in cars continues to grow, as vehicle manufacturers aim to adapt to the different ways in which drivers consume media outside of the car.
This report is in an easy-to-use excel format and provides a 5-year sales forecast for the fitment of different media types, connectors and broadcast receivers.
The rapidly changing consumer trends for acquiring and listening to music will have a significant impact on the development of in car entertainment and connectivity.
SBD’s latest report provides a vital focus on Digital Music Trends in Europe, giving an assessment of the growth in new digital media types, the adapting business models of selling digital music and the challenges of Digital Rights Management against illegal piracy [addressing each of these key issues from an automotive perspective].