With supply unable to keep up with demand, much of the business has gone to foreign companies. Each year Taiwan's video media spends about US $ 4.8 billion per year buyings foreign programming, making Taiwan the largest TV programming importer in Asia.
估計，台灣電視媒體每年要花四十八億台幣購買外國節目，已成為亞洲最大的電視節目進口者。