The Downturn Shines a Spotlight on Conditional Access Providers (Analyst Opinion)

Publication Date	February 2009
Publisher	Datamonitor
Product Type	Report
Pages	3
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	DAT14468

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Summary

Introduction
In the global recession, pay-TV operators' revenues are protected from a decline in advertising spend through subscription income. While subscription levels remain robust, the biggest threat to profit in 2009 is an expected increase in piracy.

Scope

Looks at the different factors driving pay-TV piracy in the developed and developing world.

Discusses how the developing world offers a huge opportunity for conditional access vendors in 2009.

Highlights

While internet piracy is a huge threat in Western Europe and North America, pirates are still making huge profits by circumventing conditional access systems.

Pay-TV operators in developing countries are more at risk through a widespread cultural ambivalence to pirated content and through the implementation of less robust conditional access systems.

Where piracy is rife, the losses from piracy may begin to outstrip the increased cost of improved conditional access.