China’s Huawei top in India’s TV set-top box market

[ChinaToday]

Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer Huawei is leading the growing set-top box (STB) market in India as consumers make the shift to digital TV.

In 2011 Huawei was the leading STB vendor in the country with a 24 percent share of the market. British company Pace followed in second place with 12 percent market share said analyst firm ABI Research in a report released May 21.

market share said analyst firm ABI Research in a report released May 21.

Set-top boxes made by Chang Hong, Cisco, and Skyworth are also popular with consumers in India.

Close to 70 percent of STBs sold within the country are imported from foreign manufacturers -- the majority of which are made in China.

The percentage of locally made STBs is expected to rise in the near future as the Indian government pushes consumers to switch over to digital TV before December 2014 as part of its cable TV digitization policy.

“The cable TV digitization, mandated by the government, will spur set-top box shipment increases in India for the next several years,” said Sam Rosen, principal analyst at ABI Research.

Broadband India Magazine reported that Namrata Sharma, a trade analyst with Pioneer Investcorp said the Indian cable industry is the third largest in the world after China and the US. Pioneer Investcorp found that 148 million homes in India have a TV, up from 120 million in 2007 in its recent cable and satellite industry market survey.

ABI forecasts India’s set-top box shipments to reach 19.3 million during 2012.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/techn...TV-set-top-box-market/SP-Article1-859960.aspx

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Really?
Set top boxes were introduced only in metros...
It was costly ... About 4000 INR plus the pay package fa the channels...
But now the STB are less used... Dish antenna network have taken over the TV space...
I in chennai have never seen STB, not even in my friends house or relatives house...
I duno about mumbai. delhi, kolkata though....

 

[ChinaToday]

India is a very good market for chinese goods that s why india can bad mouth china all the time and we just stay silent.

 

[ZABASHO]

good for huawei. maybe they can bring in some chinese channels or tv shows to the Indian market too.. Indian shows are already broadcasted in China (in mandarin ofcourse) and China should do the same!

Really?
Set top boxes were introduced only in metros...
It was costly ... About 4000 INR plus the pay package fa the channels...
But now the STB are less used... Dish antenna network have taken over the TV space...
I in chennai have never seen STB, not even in my friends house or relatives house...
I duno about mumbai. delhi, kolkata though....

Even with a dish antenna a set top box is required to transcode the signal.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

double post

 

[Zabaniyah]

Uh oh...

Previously it was laptops, and now this?

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Really?
Set top boxes were introduced only in metros...
It was costly ... About 4000 INR plus the pay package fa the channels...
But now the STB are less used... Dish antenna network have taken over the TV space...
I in chennai have never seen STB, not even in my friends house or relatives house...
I duno about mumbai. delhi, kolkata though....

Dish antennas is an eyesore for the surrounding. Inside the city in Germany practically all landlords don't allow you to set up a dish antenna, some cities even ban dish antennas to be visible from the street.

This is a council housing outside of Berlin where a lot of migrants and poor people live.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

good for huawei. maybe they can bring in some chinese channels or tv shows to the Indian market too.. Indian shows are already broadcasted in China (in mandarin ofcourse) and China should do the same!



Even with a dish antenna a set top box is required to transcode the signal.

This thread is specific about the dish antennas required for cable lines... Not dish antenna stb..
Even though, that STB are made by the company itself... Its not tough to make that one...

Dish antennas is an eyesore for the surrounding. Inside the city in Germany practically all landlords don't allow you to set up a dish antenna, some cities even ban dish antennas to be visible from the street.

This is a council housing outside of Berlin where a lot of migrants and poor people live.

People have different tastes... I dont think that area looks bad...

 

[sweetgrape]

Good job, Indian is a huge market! Huawei is my favorite Chinese companies! HEHE!

 

[laman12345]

Huawei will be the biggest company in the world in 10 year

 

[jbond197]

Cheap sells!! What's there to wonder??

Tomorrow, even if Pakistan comes up with something cheap which can last for a while.. I am sure it will catch good market in India..

 

[laman12345]

The founder of PC Display Card Nvidia is a Chinese too

 

[Lankan Ranger]

Really?
Set top boxes were introduced only in metros...
It was costly ... About 4000 INR plus the pay package fa the channels...
But now the STB are less used... Dish antenna network have taken over the TV space...
I in chennai have never seen STB, not even in my friends house or relatives house...
I duno about mumbai. delhi, kolkata though....

For the Dish antenna a set top box is required.

 

[gpit]

Cheap sells!! What's there to wonder??

Tomorrow, even if Pakistan comes up with something cheap which can last for a while.. I am sure it will catch good market in India..

The wonder is: While Indians whine about cheap Chinese products maliciously, and then to show themselves to the world that they are even cheaper by rushing for the cheap products they complain…?

The process seems: wise people make cheap product to lure even cheaper people to buy. No?

 

[qwerrty]

em yindians are funny. huawei & zte are making more money in india than before yindians started campaign about cyber security threats from chinese telecom companies blabla..