Wednesday 29 Dec 2010
Full migration to digital television in the Philippines will take place 10 years from now, estimates the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
“This year, the NTC has commenced the transition of the broadcast industry from analogue to digital. The NTC estimates full migration from analogue to digital TV technology within the next five to 10 years,” the regulator said in its year-end report, which was cited byABS-CBN News.
Last June, the NTC decided against the European standard for digital television in favour of Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcast (ISDB) technology as the standard for its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) broadcast service.
Once DTT technology is enforced in the country, all non-digital TV sets would be rendered obsolete unless connected to an external off-the-air tuner, or a satellite system.
The government is looking at delaying the compulsory transition of all analogue television service providers to digital TV and for the termination of all analogue TV broadcast transmissions from an earlier target set at the 2015 year-end.