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Almost 125 million HD ready TV households in Europe

During 2009, the developments concerning HDTV have continued to take up speed:
Almost 125 million HD ready TV sets have been sold in Europe since January 2005, representing up to 60% of all European TV homes. 50 million of these where sold in 2009.
Sales were driven by the attractiveness of larger flat screens, a further price decrease for HD ready sets and extended HD content offers in 2009.
Germany, UK and France continue leading in terms of sales volume.
Satellite continued to be the driver for HDTV channel growth across Europe and ASTRA further developed its line-up of HD channels.
ASTRA currently carries more than 110 commercial HD channels on its satellites over Europe. A lot of these channels are broadcast exclusively on ASTRA.