Monday December 6, 2010
While the MPEG-4 AVC market continues to advance the MPEG standard into new markets, its predecessor MPEG-2 is still a prominent player. Many consumer electronics products include both codecs to ensure backward compatibility.
DTC estimates that more than 800 million MPEG-2 products will ship in 2011 slightly growing to 850 million products in 2015. Set-top boxes (STBs), DVD and Blu-ray disc (BD) PCs, and non-PC DVD and BD devices make up most of the MPEG-2 devices shipping today.
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 will soon take over the lead as far as products shipped. DTC estimates that 807 million products containing MPEG-4 AVC shipped into the market in 2009, and expects that number to reach over a billion by year end 2010, with shipments nearly doubling in 2015, yielding roughly 2.2 billion units. MPEG-4 AVC has firmly established itself as the codec of the future and DTC expects impressive growth across a majority of product categories for many years to come.
Even though MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 is taking the lead over MEPG-2 and is expected to experience continued growth, it is obvious that MPEG-2 remains a major player in the game as long as legacy content remains in the market.
Source: DTC
