High-Definition TV Services: Coming to a Home Near You?

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High-Definition TV Services: Coming to a Home Near You?

Service: Multimedia Broadband Services & Infrastructure
Report Number: IN0401241MB
Publication Date: March 2004
Number of Pages: 31
Report Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars
Analyst: Michael Paxton

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Abstract
High-definition television has captured the imagination of a small, but growing, audience of TV viewers who rave about the service’s extraordinary clear and crisp picture quality. With its life-like detail and impressive audio performance, HDTV service is also exciting TV broadcasters and multichannel service providers. The service, which is still only available in a few select countries, has the potential to boost incremental monthly revenues for both cable and satellite operators, as well as provide terrestrial TV broadcasters with a new weapon in the fight against pay-TV services.

This report examines the availability of high-definition television services around the world. It covers market and industry drivers for HDTV service subscribers and viewers, and discusses how the availability of HD programming and the development of different HD business models are impacting the market for high-definition services.

The report also takes an in-depth look at existing HDTV service providers, and identifies the “fast movers” in the satellite, cable, and terrestrial broadcast industries. The report provides five-year forecasts for worldwide HDTV households by transmission platform (satellite, cable, and terrestrial), worldwide HDTV households by geographic region, US HDTV households, and the installed base of US HDTV sets.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary
Methodology
Digital Technology Continues to Change the World
An Overview of Digital TV and HDTV
- How HDTV Differs from Analog TV
- Digital Television Sets and Monitors
- Watching High-Definition TV
Business Models for HDTV Service
Market Trends for HDTV Services
- Market Drivers
- Market Challenges
HD Programming
- HD Programming Production Cost Improve
HDTV Service Providers
- Cable HDTV Services
  - Cable Operators
- Satellite HDTV Services
  - DTH Operators
- Terrestrial HDTV Services
- Total HDTV Households
Forecasts: HDTV Households
- Trends & Assumptions Shaping the Forecasts
  - HDTV Households by Transmission Platform
  - Worldwide HDTV Households by Geographic Region
  - US HDTV Households & the US Installed Base of HDTV Sets
The Next 12 Months
- A Few Final Thoughts

List of Tables

Table 1. HDTV Service Provider Business Models: Equipment and Service Pricing
Table 2. HDTV Market Drivers & Market Challenges
Table 3. HD Programming Line-Up By Selected US Service Providers
Table 4. Worldwide Cable HDTV Subscriber Households
Table 5. Worldwide Satellite HDTV Households
Table 6. Worldwide Terrestrial HDTV Households by Country
Table 7. Worldwide HDTV Households by Platform, March 2004
Table 8. Worldwide HDTV Households by Region, March 2004
Table 9. Worldwide HDTV Household Forecast by Transmission Platform (Households in Thousands)
Table 10. Worldwide HDTV Household Forecast by Region (Households in Thousands)
Table 11. US HDTV Household and HDTV Set Installed Base Forecast (Units in Thousands)

List of Figures

Figure 1. Worldwide HDTV Household Forecast by Transmission Platform (Households in Thousands)
Figure 2. Worldwide HDTV Household Forecast, 2002 - 2008 (Households in Thousands)
Figure 3. Percentage of HDTV Households by Region in 2004
Figure 4. Percentage of HDTV Households by Region in 2007

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