More than 50 percent of all worldwide digital set-top boxes will be produced in China by 2010, according to IMS Research.

In 2004, China produced more than 17 million digital set-top boxes, about 35 percent of the global market, according to the IMS report, “The Chinese Market For Digital Set- Top Boxes.”

“As deployments of digital cable TV, digital terrestrial TV and IPTV in both China and the rest of the world intensify, the proportions of digital cable, digital terrestrial and IP set-top boxes within total Chinese digital production are expected to increase throughout the next five years,” IMS said.