SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Mobile video services in China, Brazil, and the US are creating new growth markets for all-digital mobile tuners, which will drive the value of silicon TV tuners to $750 million in 2015, says In-Stat.

The transition from older-style can-type tuners to silicon TV tuners began in 2010. Today, the top TV set manufacturers are actually putting silicon tuners directly on their main TV chassis boards, and many ODMs are using can-type modules that contain silicon tuners and demodulators. 

By 2015, nearly 80% of all new TV sets will ship with silicon tuners built in, the firm says. Silicon tuner shipments into Latin America will grow at CAGR of 30.5%. In North America, silicon tuners built into TV sets will grow with a CAGR of 22.5% through 2015.

Many European TV sets already include silicon TV tuners, and expected growth will push the number of units shipped to nearly 36 million in 2015, according to In-Stat.

In the cable TV space, Broadcom’s full band capture technologies will help bring an expanding range of Internet protocol services to consumers’ homes.

In the satellite space, NovelSat’s NS-3 modulation may create a new wave of satellite services that can reinvigorate shipments for next-generation satellite set top boxes.

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