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The Market Needs Marlin

Marlin technology enables competitive value-added content services and devices that are interoperable, consumer friendly, and drive revenue.  As the diagram below shows, consumers access content, even just within their homes, from an increasingly diverse and complex array of services and devices. Consumer demand is driving an enormous opportunity in this distributed content world.

  

It’s about consumer demand

Consumers are accessing content from multiple devices, many of which have overlapping functionality. They want those devices to work together in a common way without having to figure out the underlying technology.

The opportunity is real and enormous

Consumers access content from an increasingly diverse and complex array of services and devices. It is a “content-when-and-where-you-want-it” world. Worldwide broadband connections grow by the minute. Mobile broadband is exploding. Every year, users spend more time consuming digital media.

 

It’s a distributed world

The connected world is reshaping the value chain: it is not only linear anymore. Consumers generate and distribute content. Service providers offer multiple content types through multiple distribution networks. Devices are becoming service-enabled. Content can be personalized and accessed through different touch points.