MUMBAI: The Korea Digital Cable TV Summit 2005, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and the Korean Cable TV Association (KCTA), will be held on 8 March 2005 in Seoul.

The summit will be discussing key issues including regulatory trends for pay TV competition, distribution and programming, competition to cable from IPTV, DTH and mobile broadcasting, digital cable, the broadband bundle and cable TV programming.

Key panels arranged for the summit include:
1) Broadband Competition & Convergence: The Power of the Bundle
2) Cable TV Programming: Delivering audiences & advertisers
3) Technologies for cable's all digital era: Boxes, Compression & Security
4) On Demand & Personalized TV: Reshaping business models
5) Deals, Values & Financing: The State of Cable Economics

The summit provides a platform to gain insight from leading industry executives into the key strategies that will shape the future of Korea's broadband and pay TV sectors with comparative perspectives on global competition and convergence provided by speakers from Asia, Europe and North America, informs an official release.