In-Stat’s recently published report on Mobile Analog TV predicts strong growth over the next 4 years for sales of mobile devices which can receive analog TV.
Although the market is moving to digital, In-Stat forecasts that analog mobile TV receivers will do well in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, in the countries that have not yet formulated plans for digital TV or where analog signals will still be transmitted over the next five years.
The reason for this is the wide availability of analog broadcasts and the low cost, under $10, of adding analog reception to mobiles. Whereas digital broadcasting offers many advantages, it is often costly (for subscriptions to 3G or mobile digital broadcasts) or patchy (for TV via the mobile internet).
The worldwide user base of 54M mobile devices able to receive analog TV is forecast to rise to 300M by 2013.
The report was commissioned by Telegent Systems whose solutions enable reception of broadcast TV by laptops, netbooks and mobile devices. The full report can be downloaded from
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