June 25, 2012 – About 370 million digital homes were added around the world between end-2007 and end-2011 – or an average of 93 million more digital homes each year, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV World Databook estimated that this took the digital TV household total for the 80 countries covered in the report to 675 million.
Simon Murray, author of the report, said: “Half the world’s TV households now receive digital signals. Digital TV penetration climbed from 23.5% at end-2007 to 48.5% by end-2011.
”He added: “However, there were still 714 million analogue TV households (mostly terrestrial and cable, with a few analogue DTH ones) by end-2011. This total was down from 989 million at end-2007.”
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