I-Philippines ISDB-T izoshintshwa ngaphambilini 2020

Philippine ISDB-T will be finished shift before 2020, VCAN ISDB-T has been tested in the Philippines. Alvin Bernard Blanco, chief of the National Telecommunications Commission’s (I-NTC) Broadcast Services Division, said the country could migrate to digital TV as early as 2020. “It could take anywhere from 5 ukuze 10 iminyaka,” he said, adding that the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) is finalizing the migration plan.

The migration plan will address the policy, regulatory and technical issues as well as fiscal considerations for the country’s migration to digital TV broadcasting, including the date for the planned analog shut-off (ASO), after which no analog TV will be allowed to operate. Last month, the NTC issued the final implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for digital TV, adopting Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcast-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) ejwayelekile.

Ngaphansi kwe-IRR, i-bandwidth ye 6 I-megahertz izonikezwa i-TV ngayinye egunyaziwe yedijithali ye-terrestrial TV (I-DTT) umhlinzeki wayo yonke indawo yesevisi. I-NTC iphinde yabela amabhendi amafrikhwensi 512-698 MHz (Iziteshi 21 ukuze 51) kwe-DTT. “A duly authorized DTT service provider shall have the option in its application to the Commission to adopt either single or multi-program HDTV format or single or multi-program SDTV format or any combination thereof for its digital service,” NTC said, yengeza ukuthi noma yiluphi ushintsho olulandelayo kufomethi yohlelo luzodinga imvume yomlawuli. Lesi sikhungo sithe ukuhlinzekwa kwezinhlelo ezintsha, kuhlanganise high-definition (HD) izinhlelo, iyakhuthazwa ngaphezu kwezinhlelo zefa le-analogi. I-TV yamahhala noma imindeni engenakhebula ihlanganisa 90 percent of the Philippines’ 17 ababukeli abayizigidi.

Ngaphandle kweJapan, amanye amazwe asebenzisayo ISDB-T yiBrazil, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Paraguay. (from http://www.interaksyon.com/business/103414/philippine-shift-to-digital-tv-seen-by-2020)