Pilipinas TV, gibutang alang sa ISDB-T deployment

Pilipinas TV balita: The Philippines has moved one step closer to deployment of Japanese digital terrestrial broadcasting standard Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) following the release of a draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the transmission switchover by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).

NTC Commissioner Gamaliel A. Cordoba has invited all affected and interested parties to a public hearing for the proposed migration plan on September 12.

The draft IRR includes channel planning, capital spending, frequency allocation and the specific steps that the industry must undertake during the switchover.

The migration plan envisages a yearlong transition period when both the analogue and the digital transmissions will be used at the same time.

The NTC will also assign a bandwidth of 6 megahertz (MHz) to each authorized digital TV operator per service area.

“A duly authorized DTTB service provider shall have the option in its application to the commission to adopt either single or multiprogram HDTV [high-definition television] format or single or multiprogram SDTV [standard-definition] format o sa bisan unsa nga kombinasyon niini alang sa iyang digital nga pag-alagad,"Miingon nga ang NTC.

 

Ang mga aplikante nga nagtinguha sa paghatag og digital nga mga serbisyo TV kinahanglan gayud nga adunay usa ka minimum nga gibayad-up capital sa P50 milyones nga (€ 2.9m) alang sa unang pag-alagad sa dapit ug sa usa ka dugang nga mingtimaan kapital sa P20 milyones alang sa matag dugang nga pag-alagad sa dapit, sumala sa dokumento. Usa ka aplikante kinahanglan usab nga pamatud-an nga kini ang teknikal nga kapasidad sa pag-instalar, operate ug sa pagpadayon sa gisugyot nga DTT network.

Presidente Benigno S. Aquino III nagpahibalo sa Oktubre 2013 that the country would apply the Japanese standard in preference to the European DVB-T2.

Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said January 2014 that the go-ahead would pave the way for the phase out of analogue transmission in approximately two to three years to deliver better TV signals to every household across the country.

“The evolution of TV broadcasting is one of the significant aspects of connectivity for the Asean Economic Community regional integration that is envisioned to be fully attained by 2015,” he added.

Tinubdan: http://advanced-television.com/2014/09/01/philippines-set-for-isdb-t-deployment/