More people purchased digital TV subscriptions in Q1 this year than in the same period last year, reports Toronto-based Decima Research. The number of Canadian households subscribing to digital TV services showed a slight increase of an estimated 3% or approximately 113,582 in the period from Nov./Dec. 2003 to Feb./March 2004, compared to about 3% or 102,432 during the comparable period ending Feb./March 2003. The total number of subscribers by March 2004 was estimated to be 3.9 million, a 12% increase over last year.
The figures are drawn from the latest instalment of Decima’s quarterly digital TV market overview, The Digital Domain: Tracking the Growth and Development of the Canadian Digital TV Distribution Market.
