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Media: The wonder decade
Couch surfing has become more than passive television viewing over the past decade. Indian TV sets now have DVD-like picture quality with loads of value add-ons thanks to new technologies like DTH, CAS and IPTV. Idiot box goes digital The country has about 130 million television households, including 96 million Cable & Satellite (C&S) homes. As per TAM, average time spent watching television per day was 153 minutes in 2008 Direct-to-home (DTH): DTH consumers receive digital TV channels’ signals through satellite on their dish antennae which are then transmitted to TV through a set top »»»
IPTV subscriber base expected to grow by 51% in APac
Source: Indiantelevision.com MUMBAI: The subscriber base of IPTV in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow by 51 per cent this year closing at 9.4 million users and accounting for 37.6 per cent of the global subscribers, reveals research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan titled ‘Asia-Pacific IPTV Update’ finds that the IPTV subscriber base in the region would grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.6 per cent between 2009 and 2014 and, by the end of 2014, would climb to an estimated 23.5 million subscribers. In 2008, only »»»
IPTV can still succeed in India, if done right
Source: ZDNetAsia INDIA–IPTV may have failed to garner significant market share in the country, but lower pricing and better last-mile connectivity could drive this sector to 15.9 percent of all residential broadband subscribers in India by end-2011, experts say. It has been six months since Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, first launched Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in selected cities. The technology was also deployed by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), and multi-system operator (MSO), Atria Convergence »»»
IPTV gets a cold shoulder
Source: Business Standard Consumers’ reluctance to change coupled with market competition is making it tough for IPTV to capture the Indian imagination Even after 6 months of using the much-hyped Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service, Abhishek Verma, a 32-year old software engineer, isn’t too kicked about it. He has no qualms about admitting to the teething troubles he had to endure when he started with IPTV, where television channels and interactive services are delivered via high speed internet. But he quickly adds that IPTV is not to be written off. Then there are consumers like 29-year »»»
