CABLE CONGRESS 2008 – MADRID. The take-up of digital cable services in Europe is growing fast and should almost catch up that in the US in 2012.
According to data produced by Screen Digest, there were 14 million homes in the EU 27 countries at the end of 2007, as opposed to 37 million in the US. However, China is the fastest growing digital cable market in the world and is expected to become its largest at the end of 2009.
Screen Digest also predicts that the number of VOD-enabled cable homes in Europe should reach 25 million by the end of 2009 and that the number of HD homes will rise from its current level of just over one million to 30 million by 2012.
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