Emerging Markets Grab STB Shipment ShareEmerging Markets Grab STB Shipment Share

Emerging markets account for 45 percent of all set-top boxes shipped globally between 2011 and 2015, IMS Research forecasts

August 11, 2011

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AUSTIN, Texas -- The share of set-top boxes (STBs) shipped to emerging digital TV markets such as China, India, Russia and Latin America is forecasted to account for more than 45 percent of global STB shipments between 2011 and 2015, according to new insights from IMS Research, the leading independent provider of market research and consultancy to the global electronics industry. Shipments of STBs in Russia, India, China, and Latin America jumped more than 65 percent between 2009 and 2010 as demand for satellite and digital cable services surged.

This is in contrast to the overall global market, which IMS Research believes saw an 11 percent shipment increase between 2009 and 2010, to just over 220 million STBs. Equipment demand in many more sophisticated digital TV markets is slowing down as saturation is reached, analog terrestrial switch-offs are completed, and penetration of advanced HD and DVR STBs increases. IMS Research forecasts that STB shipments to many advanced markets will drop between five and 10 percent between 2011 and 2015.

“The share of total STB shipments going to emerging markets is unprecedented,” observes Anna Maxbauer, senior analyst and co-author of The World Market for Digital Set-top Boxes and iDTVs – 2011 Edition. “China’s state-sponsored cable and satellite projects accounted for nearly 40 percent of the world’s cable set-top box shipments and 20 percent of the world’s satellite set-top box shipments in 2010. Almost 14 percent of all satellite STBs shipped in 2010 went to Indian pay-DTH operators.”

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