The transition towards the HDTV has been qualified like a step forward historically for this industry similar to the step of the black and white television to the color.

As Informs Average Telecoms and, the number of hearths with this device will jump of 48 millions in the whole world at the end of 2006 - when approximately 1.200 million hearths had a television - up to 151 millions in 2011.

About 58 per cent of the hearths with high definition are in the United States and 20 per cent in Japan, followed by the United Kingdom, Canada, China and Germany, it added.

"The descent in the price of the devices of high definition has captured the imagination of the public, and the comprehension of the public is impressive", there declared the author of the report, Adam Thomas.

Pero Thomas said also that some clients are disappointed by the product, since in some services not always there are enough contents.

The report indicated that one hopes that this should change, and emphasized the situation in the United States, Japan and Australia, where the governments have established a few dates limit so that the televisions have a programming quota in high definition (AD).

The British company of television for satellite BSkyB threw its own service in AD in May, 2006 and last month he reported that the number of subscribers for this service almost has doubled in the second trimester, reaching the 184.000. This would turn it into the product of television of major growth until now.

Virgin Media, which has just arisen from the merger between the operators of cable NTL, Telewest and the division of mobile telephony of Virgin, offered AD as one of his many attractions in his Thursday throwing.


(12/02/07)