www.apscc.or.kr SATELLITE BROADCASTING IN ASIA-PACIFIC Trends & Forecasts for Video Services in the Asia Pacific Region Video in Asia - Today and into the Future Reaching More Homes and New Audiences via Satellite INTERVIEW Thomas Van den Driessche, CEO, Newtec FOCUS ASIA The State of Satellite Video Markets T-1602, 170 Seohyeon-ro Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13590 Rep. of KOREA 2017 Tel: +82-31-783-6244 Fax: +82-31-783-6249 E-mail:
[email protected] Website: www.apscc.or.kr NEWSLETTER CONTENTS 03 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT 04 FEATURES: SATELLITE BROADCASTING IN ASIA-PACIFIC 04 Euroconsult: Trends & Forecasts for Video Services in the Asia Pacific Region 10 SES: Video in Asia - Today and into the Future 16 Eutelsat: Reaching More Homes and New Audiences via Satellite 24 INTERVIEW 24 Thomas Van den Driessche, CEO, Newtec 28 FOCUS ASIA 28 NSR: The State of Satellite Video Markets 34 TRENDS 34 CMMB: Revolutionary Satellite-to-Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Concept 40 APSCC MEMBERS 42 EVENT REVIEW 47 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 48 ADVERTISERS’ INDEX 3rd Quarter 2017, Vol. 23. Issue 3. ISSN 1226-8844 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Summertime and the living are easy. This issue of After a delightful period of strong television tran- our APSCC Quarterly asks the question: what is the sponder demand growth in recent years, transpon- state of satellite broadcasting in Asia-Pacific and der utilization across the Asia-Pacific region saw where is it likely to be heading over the course of limited growth from 862 TPEs in 2015 to just under the next decade? Our experts cover the range of 890 TPEs in 2016, not surprisingly driven by South issues from DTH to ‘Cable’ Head-end distribution Asia.