International. The implementation of digital television will continue to increase and will double its penetration figures in the next five years. According to figures revealed by Digital TV Research Limited, by 2017 it will go from the current 675 million homes with this system to 1,300 million.
This implies that by that date digital television will reach 86.7% of the houses with television worldwide, which is a significant increase compared to the 48.6% that was registered for 2011.
In addition to the above, the report revealed that this increase will be distributed in 259 million new homes with digital cable, 179 million that will access DTT and 114 million will obtain digital TV through the Internet.
Finally, the report highlighted that for 2017 the most popular platform will be digital cable with 32.4% of the total number of households with television in the world, while analog cable will stand at 4.1% and analog terrestrial television will be reduced to 9.2%.
