Demand driven: excitement over new pitches and up-and-coming platforms in Asia has mostly given away to support for and fulfilling the demands of the handful of major clients in the million-plus subs club, leading conditional access suppliers say. And then there's the whole new mobile world ...(Overview)(Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)(Advertisement)

Television Asia, June, 2005

With the one million subscriber mark either passed or well in sight in multiple pay-TV markets across the Asia Pacific region, leading conditional access (CA) suppliers have shifted from winning major accounts and launching digital operations to their next role--supporting and meeting the demands of the larger, most sophisticated and more lucrative platforms.

The sole remaining major cable markets left to conquer in what NDS calls the "win the footprint phase" are India and China. While their intentions are good, in both these markets the transition to digital (and the possibility of new CA business) is slower than many would have liked because of regulatory and other challenges--and the jury is still out on whether, or how, digital pay-TV related revenues...

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