DALLAS, August 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit focuses on entertainment and multimedia 
services in European markets

Rapid growth in home networking, approaching 168 million households
worldwide in 2008, is laying the foundation for expansion of multimedia
services internationally and especially in the European markets, according to
Parks Associates.

The market research firm will host CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit on
August 29, 2008, at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin, to discuss the
implications of this market growth and share the latest findings of its
Global Digital Living(TM) (GDL) project.

Parks Associates launched GDL in 2005 to track and analyze international
adoption and consumer attitudes toward advanced digital technologies and
services. The most recent survey, GDL: Entertainment 2.0 in Europe, studies
the growth of entertainment services in the top European markets. The project
includes country profiles and consumer surveys and examines adoption and
valuation of DVDs, online video and video-on-demand, DVRs, and
high-definition TV services, among other topics.

"Broadband growth pushed Europe ahead of North America in terms of home
network adoption," said Kurt Scherf, vice president, principal analyst, Parks
Associates. "With the network in place, providers will tie in high-demand
entertainment services. By 2012, over one-third of networked nodes worldwide
will have entertainment or multimedia functionality, with particularly strong
growth in IPTV services."

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe will provide attendees with international consumer
research and feature interactive discussions on advanced television services,
new media and digital content, and value-added services.

Advisory sponsors for CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe: Cisco, Enure Networks,
F-Secure Corporation, Macrovision, the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA),
Neotion, support.com, Toshiba Electronics Europe, WirelessHD, and Zilog, Inc.

The event agenda features speakers from the following companies and
organizations:

ActiveVideo Networks
    ARM
    Cisco
    Deutsche Telekom
    Enure Networks
    F-Secure
    Home Gateway Initiative
    HomePlug Powerline Alliance
    Macrovision
    Makewave AB
    MoreTV
    NEC Europe
    Neotion
    Nokia Siemens Networks
    OSGi Alliance
    Qualcomm
    Shiny Media
    SiBEAM, Inc.
    SPiDCOM Technologies
    support.com
    Texas Instruments
    Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH
    WirelessHD
    Zilog

The WirelessHD Consortium will host a pre-show workshop on August 28,
followed by a reception for CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe attendees. For more
information, visit http://www.connectionseurope.com or contact +1-972-490-
1113, sales@parksassociates.com.

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summit Series

CONNECTIONS(TM) Europe Summits, produced by Parks Associates, provide
attendees with high-level analysis and consumer research from Parks
Associates, networking opportunities, and information on emerging residential
and mobile technologies and services. http://www.connectionseurope.com

Melissa Leddin
    Parks Associates
    +1-972-490-1113
    melissa.leddin@parksassociates.com


    Web site: http://www.parksassociates.com
              http://www.connectionseurope.com