This way it is assured by a study of the publication Screen Digest, of which it gets rid between other aspects that at the end of 2006, there was in the world a whole of 106 channels of television in high definition (HDTV), what supposes an increase of 40 more as regards the same period of 2005.

This increase is given by the fact that several European platforms as the Briton BSkyB, the German Premiere or the French CanalSat, threw several offers to his channels subscribers in high definition.

The report does an analysis of 19 markets considered leaders in the business of the television of several countries of Western Europe, North America, and the region of Asia and Pacific Ocean. According to this information, the implantation of the HDTV in 2010 will be 59 % in the United States, 66 % in Japan and 30 % in western Europe. The study pronosticae that, facing this year 2010, in the whole world there will be approximately 250 channels in HDTV, 120 of which will be in Europe

HDTV is the English acronym of High Definition Television (Television of high definition). It is one of the formats that joined the digital television (DTV), are characterized for expressing the television signs in a digital quality superior to other systems. In Europe, the platform for satellite Euro1080 was the pioneer in expressing in high definition, first in MPEG-2 and later under the norms MPEG-4/H.264.


(31/01/07)