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HD programming to reach 44 million homes worldwide by year’s end
By Darco | April 13, 2008
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.
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