Digital TV Research forecasts 68.83 million SVOD [subscription video on demand] homes in the Asia-Pacific by 2020, quadruple the 2014 total and up from only 1.47 million in 2010. Japan will remain the largest SVOD country. China will overtake South Korea to become the second largest country by SVOD homes in 2020. From the 51.63 million SVOD home additions between 2014 and 2020, will supply 11.84 million, 12.55 million and 7.21 million.
Satellite operator Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) today announced that Karen Schmidt, a veteran marketing executive with more than 25 years’ experience, has been named as the company’s Vice President of Marketing, effective immediately.
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Pay TV operators purchased US$ 15.3 billion worth of set-top boxes (STBs) in 2014, down from US$ 15.9 billion in 2013. This decline represents the first contraction in the market since 2002, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight. Shipments of pay TV STBs grew slightly in 2014 to 204.7 million units, an increase of just under 1 percent from 203.1 million units in the previous year; however, such modest shipment growth failed to compensate for the effects of price erosion in this highly competitive market.
