HD programming to reach 44 million homes worldwide by year's end

by Darren Murph, posted Apr 12th 2008 at 2:07PM

Just in case you haven't been schooled enough by HD research articles of late, here comes another to toss around inside that skull of yours. Based on a forecast by Informa Telecoms & Media, around 4-percent of worldwide households (read: not just homes with HDTVs) will "actively watch HD programming" before 2009 dawns. Just to put that into perspective, only 2-percent of homes globally were tuning into HDTV at the end of 2007. According to Simon Murray, principal media analyst at the company, a "major contributing factor is that set and set-top box prices have fallen substantially in the last two years," and it should come as no surprise that HD adoption has been highest in North America. Per usual, an HD study couldn't conclude without some reference to 2012, and sure enough, Informa is expecting around 179 million worldwide abodes (16-percent, give or take) to have HD programming in less than four years.

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Tags: 2012, content, data, homes, household, households, programming, research, study, survey, worldwide

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sirgdavis @ Apr 13th 2008 1:43PM

and we have to pay for it.

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locke6854 @ Apr 13th 2008 3:39PM

so?

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locke6854 @ Apr 13th 2008 3:39PM

so?

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