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Monday, 14 February 2011 22:11
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on Monday said it expects to complete the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) on digital terrestrial television (DTT) by April amid clamor to review the approved platform for the country's migration.
Gamaliel Cordoba, NTC chief, said the regulator has formed committees on legal, technical and communications for the creation of IRR for digital TV.
"The meetings will be every Wednesday for big group and every Monday for committees. We will try to finish the IRR in two months," Cordoba said.
Cordoba said it takes three to five years for a new technology to mature. "We cannot wait for that, otherwise the Philippines will be left behind sa digital tv migration."
The country originally planned to migrate from analog to digital TV in 2015.
In June, last year, the NTC approved a memorandum circular mandating the use of Integrated Services Digital Broadcast-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) for DTT migration.
The Philippines will be the first in Asia to adopt the Japanese standard for digital TV.
Besides Japan, other countries that adopted ISDB-T were Brazil, Peru, Chile, Venzuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Paraguay.
ABS-CBN Corp. earlier said it plans to spend P3 billion and P5 billion to roll out DTT nationwide for over five years to improve signal, particularly in Metro Manila.
Digital TV is a system for broadcasting and receiving digital sound and video signals that requires a specially designed and more advanced TV set than the traditional analog box.
This means that upon migration to the digital format, consumers who still have analog TV sets would have to buy set-top boxes to receive digital signals.
According to the NTC, the set-top boxes for the Japanese standard would cost $ 11, while the price for the European standard gadget would range from $ 12 to $ 13.
The regulator estimates that around 14 million Filipino households use analog TV sets. (PNA)
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digital tv ba kamo????so tingnan na lang natin kung cnu mauuna,as the column says, channel 2 had already a plan and it shows already the test run in some areas in the phils. so...ang tanong GMA7 ilabas nyo na ang sinasabi nyong malaking ang kita nyo, pag nauna kau..well talgang magaling na istasyon nyo,chos!
naku digital tv sets meron ba sa payatas nun??? chos...
diba naibalita na noon na nag-apply na ABSCBN noon pa sabi ng KAPUPU wait lang di pa kami ready...
diba malaki ang kita ng kapupu??? mawawalan na ba ng silbi ang mga antena??? pano bayan??? nagtatanong lang po
excited na ako nito sobra!!
ABS-CBN BIDABEST!
ibig sabihin pag digital na.. mahihirapan na ang GMA mandaya ng ratings.. hahaha!!
LOL, maraming delaying tactics ang GMA. Right when everything was almost final, sinasuggest naman nila ang DVB-T2. According to GMA, DVB-T2 is much more superior than ISDB-T. GMA, ang analog signal shut down po ay sa 2015 na. Kailangan niyo pa talagang umepal. XD
Dapat sa 2012 ABS-CBN MUST SHUT DOWN ITS ANALOG TRANSMISSIONS!
mahihirapan na mandaya sa ratings dahil sa box, pero ung ibang tv na lcd may digital receiver na nakainstall sa tv eh, kaya di na kailangang bilhan pa. Bale ung mga analog na lang.
Ang Tanong ang mga box ba na ito ay magkakaroon ng seal ng dti o ng ntc?
tulad sa ibang bansa , may mga box na at may mga ratings firm na nag-aaway away para lang sa maging exclusive na yung box sa kanila.
tingnan nyu na lang ang Sky cable na may digibox, ang alam ko di pa masyado inaaply pero, alam na ng mga cable channels kung ilan langa ng subscriber nila... dahil dun...
alam na! hahaha! diba GMA? =))
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