About 43% of TV households worldwide to be digital by end of 2012: report

ESSEX, England – Some 43% of TV households, or nearly 504 million homes, worldwide will receive digital signals by end of 2012, according to the seventh edition of Global Digital TV report produced by Informa Telecoms and Media. The report notes that 264 million digital homes will be added between the end of 2007 and the end of 2012, with some 60 million extra households being added in China. Other significant increases will occur in the United States, where 39 million more homes are predicted, in Japan (20 million) and in India (23 million). The number of digital cable TV...