This adorable graph shows worldwide IPTV penetration. More specifically, it shows the percentage of households per country that watch TV via the Internet. Hong Kong leads the line, followed by Iceland and Estonia. Not a single Western Hemisphere country is listed, which must thrill the likes of NBC (Hulu) and ABC.
Certainly, I watch all my TV shows (”Lost,” “the Office,” etc.) thanks to the Internet, but I don’t necessarily watch them on my computer monitor. One day I may watch the shows on my TV, while another I may load them up on my PSP for when I have to go all the way down to Brooklyn to visit Biggs.
Interesting numbers, nonetheless.
The data is misleading. IPTV in Hong Kong may just mean that all the Cable TV is delivered over IP. It does not mean that Hong Kong watches a lot of Youtube.
That’s of course, if you consider
- France
- Belgium
- Sweden
- Spain
- Norway
Being in the eastern hemisphere…
Spain and France are in both hemispheres, the rest actually are located in the Eastern.
The story to me is perspective. These are relatively small places. HK has 7 million people, but only ~3 million net users / ~1 million broadband. When you take 30% from that, the actual figures are not as impressive. And the list falls off from there.
No way the West can compete in that percentage list, but I bet in real numbers it stacks up differently.
And yes, it has been a very slow day at work.
>HK has 7 million people, but only ~3 million net users / ~1 million broadband.
Just interested where did you get these figures?
base on OFTA (Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong):
http://www.ofta.gov.hk/en/datastat/key_stat.html
up to 2008 Jan there are:
1,882,461 Registered customer accounts with broadband access (estimated) (Jan 2008)
Remember, resisted customers, normally 1 family only register once, and share connection or computer together.
There are appox 7.5 million (7,500,000) ppl in HK in year 2007, so appox 3.98 ppl to 1 registered customer accounts with broadband access, that is almost everyone (take 3~4 ppl a family)
And with the 76.4% Household broadband penetration rate (Jan 2008), it does make sense for provider to provide content to user var IP.
Just chit chat, not pointing finger that you were wrong, just updating some data..
Data from http://www.worldscreen.com/asiapacific.php
The figures were just to illustrate the difference in actual viewer numbers vs percent. It remains valid even if all 7.5 million people watched via IPTV. HK just happened to be first on the graph.
Thinks this graph/data/title is quite misleading…
As above user Adnan mention, correct, many cable/cable like TV service here is base on IP with top up box setup, this was the case since early 2000 (ITV from HK Telecom) and now become NOW TV, some are known to be netTV like TV services from HKBN (A local board band Internet provider)
Most of these so call “watch TV over Internet” user do not even know they are watching it over IP (example, customers in watching a English Football Leg. match in a cheap restaurant..)