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year, for the first time, consumers will buy more HDTV
sets than traditional ones. Morgan Stanley estimates that
nearly 26% of households will enjoy HDTV by year's end and that
67.6% will in 2010, as the prices keep falling from today's
$1,000 and up. But the cable industry is not fully ready to take
advantage. Cable's legacy analog signals consume about two-thirds
of a typical system's bandwidth, even after the industry spent
$100 billion over a decade for fatter lines. |
$69.5
billion
Annual Cable
Revenue (residential), 2006 estimate by Kagan Research |
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Cable Industry
Stats |
| US Television Households
(March 2006) |
110,600,000 |
| Basic Cable Subscribers (March
2006) |
65,500,000 |
| Occupied Homes Passed by Cable (March
2006) |
111,300,000 |
| Premium Cable
Units |
51,800,000 |
| Total Advertising Revenue (2006
estimate) |
$24.6 billion |
| Annual Franchise Fees Paid by Cable Industry
(2005) |
$2.4 billion |
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Sources:
National Cable & Telecommunications Association,
Kagan Research LLC |
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