Radiasun focuses on CATV and Satellite instruments

China's authoritative ICT research and management consulting company, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), recently released the 2007-2008 China's DTV Industry Annual Report.

The report shows that China's DTV industry achieved steady growth in 2007 and Cable DTV was still the principal part of analog-to-digital conversion. Driving by mass conversion of CATV to Cable DTV in 2006, 30 more cities completed the conversion in 2007. In October, national DTTB standard signals were telecasted in Shenzhen for the first time; development of satellite DTV was hindered by the postponed launch of the direct broadcast satellite and relevant policies have not been clarified; IPTV was still in the test period with a fast-growing subscriber population. In 2007, there were 13.052 millions of new DTV subscribers, 12.051 millions of which were Cable DTV subscribers, increasing the quantity of China's DTV subscribers to 27.186 millions.

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Number of Cable DTV Subscribers: 10,000 16.8 77.3 369.4 1312.6 2517.7 Number of Satellite DTV Subscribers: 10,000 8.5 10.7 13.8 22.3 32.3 Number of Terrestrial DTV Subscribers: 10,000 0.2 1.3 5.1 23.5 49.9 Number of IPTV Subscribers: 10,000 1.8 4.6 26.7 55.0 118.7 Total 27.3 93.9 415.0 1413.4 2718.6

Mass conversion from CATV to Cable DTV takes the expressway

In 2007, Cable DTV operators accelerated operating platform digitization and infrastructure reconstruction and reinforced new service development on this basis. Technical and service capacities of CATV were improved, and the scale of the DTV industry has expanded rapidly. In 2007, the mass conversion from CATV to Cable DTV started in some western provinces, such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Gansu and was reinforced in major cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Tianjin. The number of China's Cable DTV subscribers topped 25 millions in 2007.