South Africa’s Communications Minister Faith Muthambi says that the country’s TV viewers will not face broadcasting disruption despite the nation not having adopted digital transmission in time for the June 17th digital deadline. “As we have indicated before, our country is not in a position to migrate to the digital platform by this date,” Muthambi […]
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has noted the arrival of the June 17th deadline for switching off analogue television broadcasting in the UHF band set by ITU Member States at the Regional Radiocommunication Conference in 2006, despite the process being incomplete in many territories. The deadline for the switchover from analogue to DTT, set at […]
Mexico is not due to wholly switch off its analogue TV transmissions until December this year. But its Communications & Transport Ministry (SCT) says it still has to fund anther 4 millions digital TV sets in order to meet the digital switchover date. SCT’s newly appointed Undersecretary of State Monica Aspe Bernal says that by […]
It seems the situation as far as India’s ambitious plans for complete digitisation and the mandatory implementation of Conditional Access is massively delayed, and the usual ‘confusion reigns’ at just about every level of the process. Notwithstanding the many earlier missed deadlines, India’s Broadcasting Minister Prakesh Javedeker had set December 2015 as the Phase III […]
The adoption of digital transmission by most African countries is a complete mess, and only two nations will meet next week’s June 17th digital switch over deadline. The admission came from Beijing at the 5th African Digital TV Development Seminar, organised by StarTimes (itself a major player in introducing digital TV in Africa). The president […]
Serbia has successfully completed its digital switchover, with 97.8 per cent of the population covered by the DTT signal. The process was completed ten days before the original target date of June 17th, with the switch-off the last analogue transmitters, located on Kopaonik, Jastrebac, Besna Kobila, Cer and Maljen. According to the Minister of Trade […]
An estimated 40 per cent of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina could be left in the dark after the digital switchover on June 17th. The country has not yet completed the first phase of the project when the public broadcasters for each entity were meant to synchronize their networks and their equipment. An estimated […]
South Africa’s communications minister Faith Muthambi has admitted that the country will not meet the 17th June 2015 analogue switch off date as set by the International Telecommunications Union, and advised that the switch to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) will only be completed in two years. Updating the National Assembly on the project, Muthambi said […]
South Africa’s SABC public broadcaster says it will now only launch its digital transmissions with just five channels. In 2011 SABC told a parliamentary committee that digital TV would see it transmit 18 channels. Currently SABC transmits SABC-1 (Nguni languages, some English), SABC-2 (some English/Afrikaans), SABC-3 (English/Afrikaans) and SABC News (multi-lingual), and a ‘catch-up/best of’ […]
Based on forecasts for 138 countries, the number of digital TV homes will increase by more than 1 billion between 2010 and 2020 to 1.65 billion – or up by 180 per cent, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The total will climb by 134 million homes in 2015 alone. According to the […]