Digital TV shift will be delayed – DICT chief
Department of Information and Communications Technology chief Ivan John Uy said that the digital TV transition will be delayed by a couple of years but he is open to a phased digital TV transition shift.
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Department of Information and Communications Technology chief Ivan John Uy said that the digital TV transition will be delayed by a couple of years but he is open to a phased digital TV transition shift.
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00:00 Are we going to do a digital TV transition in 2023, this year?
00:04 I don't think so.
00:05 First, there are still a lot of TV stations that do not have the equipment in order to
00:14 digitally transmit using the new platform, the ISDB2 platform.
00:19 So I think we may have to extend that deadline.
00:22 Originally it was not this year, 2023.
00:25 But we see there's been a gap.
00:28 Sadly, the past decade, there was not really an earnest effort on our part to push for
00:39 that transition.
00:41 In other countries, they actually scheduled already the shutdown of the analog TV in order
00:47 to move to the digital TV.
00:49 But here, first, lack of equipment and the infrastructure of the broadcasting.
00:59 But at the same time, secondly, we still have a lot of TVs deployed, especially in the provinces
01:07 that are still analog TVs.
01:10 So although less and less channels are available to them now, and they have to buy these so-called
01:17 "box" in order to convert the analog signals into digital signals.
01:25 But I think maybe, given the proper incentives and the proper push, I think a couple of more
01:33 years we should be able to transition.
01:35 Thank you.
01:43 [END]