High Definition Television: Global uptake and assessment to 2010 screendigest High Definition Television: Global uptake and assessment to 2010 screendigest Published March 2006 by Screen Digest Limited Screen Digest Limited Lymehouse Studios 30/31 Lyme Street London NW1 0EE telephone +44/20 7424 2820 fax +44/20 7424 2838 e-mail
[email protected] Author: Vincent Letang Editor: Guy Bisson, Ben Keen, Allan Hardy Layout: Tom Humberstone, Leander Vanderbijl All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of cover or binding other than that in which is it published and without a similar condition (including this condition) being imposed on the subsequent publisher. Copyright © Screen Digest 2005 Printed by Screen Digest (A) 2 Contents High Definition Television: 35 Hardware market trends: ‘HD Global uptake and assessment to 2010 everywhere’ at IFA 2005 37 CES 2006: HD drives CE growth 3 Contents 37 All conditions are clear for a lift-off in 2006 7 List of tables and charts 40 The European launches 11 Key facts and forecasts 43 Chapter 3 HDTV Economics 43 Drivers and Obstacles 13 Executive summary 43 Interoperability of technical standards and formats 19 Chapter 1 Introducing HDTV 43 Industry co-ordination 19 Definitions, scope of the report 44 Bandwidth: the good news from 19 What is HDTV? advanced codecs 20 Technical concepts 45 Regulation 22 A brief