"Hello. Want to connect to digital television? "- Young kommunar

04.03.2014
Author: Irina BOBYRENKO

– such a question on the house phone asked me a girl – an employee of one of the cellular operators. And she began to explain the benefits of digital broadcasting.

– «Digital” will improve image quality – she urged. – At ten Freeview get a complete package paid – more than a hundred channels. This is much more than you can watch today on cable networks. If you have an older TV, you only need it to consoles, and the subscriber’s consent. If you have, then it perepodklyuchat to our network, and thus the connection speed will be more …

asked how I pay for cable TV and internet, it promises: “The payment will be less than one account and, importantly, agree».

I cautiously agreed, but promised to think about.

Soon the same day the phone rang again. Girl again. Already from another company, but with the promise of the same mountains of gold, that will certainly be, if you connect to their digital TV. Besides, I already knew she added the impressive story of any “gadgets”: thanks to the console using the optional remote control, you can freeze the image, back to the review, written the night air, bring the computer functions on the TV screen, using it as a monitor.

– Imagine you’re talking on Skype and see your opponent on the TV screen! – Tone leading lottery convinced me interlocutor on the other end.

I thought. Indeed, life does not stand still. From TV to smart lens with a flat-screen TV and a color three-dimensional image was not much time. And now – the most advanced technology in broadcasting. I guess I should go with the times. That just would not stumble on something, what girl on the phone never tell …

About

digital television talk for four years. Promise that it will completely replace analogue. But there is one important question that arises from all of Tula, unrelated to the IT-technologies in communications: what is it all about – “figure»?

Sergey Stepanov

, Chief Engineer of the RTRS “Tula radio television transmitting center” responsible for the transition to digital television and radio broadcasting in the Tula region, explains:

– Now the country has both analog and digital terrestrial TV. The transition to “figure” allows you to distribute channels in higher

quality and more efficient, that is on the same frequency terrestrial TV channel immediately fit 10 channels instead of one. Why did you decide to build a digital network? For example, in the Thule people can watch free 13 analog terrestrial channels. At the same time Yefremov – only five in black – three and one somewhere altogether. This bias has pushed the government to take a decision that would allow the entire population of Russia have guaranteed free access to the information environment. The state undertook to provide the population with the first and then second multiplex, which will include 20 television and radio channels 6. I stress free. (Multiplex – a union in a single package of digital TV channels in digital broadcasting, mixed (multiplexed) before transmission and reception of the final shared installation (subscriber receiver or a TV with a digital tuner) with the release of one or more channels. – Ed.).

the first multiplex includes 10 mandatory nationwide public TV channels: “First Channel”, “Russia-1″, “Russia-2″, NTV, “Petersburg – Channel 5″, “Russia-Culture”, “Russia-24″ , “Carousel”, “Russian Public TV” TV Center. And three federal radio.

in our region in the framework of the Federal Target Program in eight locations the equipment for digital broadcasting. This Aleksin Belyov Kurkin Suvorov, black, Tula, Efremov, Novomoskovsk. Objects of the second phase was commissioned in December 2013 and really work. The object of the first phase, the city of Tula, represented by the State Acceptance Commission and should be introduced in March this year. Today is a test broadcast.

very important to note that for the connection of digital television does not need monthly fee. It is not necessary to conclude treaties. The procedure is very simple. The market is saturated enough different set-top boxes, receivers that are capable of receiving digital infrastructure. Signal level and allow you to use energy even indoor antennas. Therefore, time investment is not very large funds provide citizen future viewing absolutely free. This way, we tell the Center advisory support, which was opened recently (free advice).

After starting the first and second multiplexes tasked to design and launch of the third. The first multiplex, I repeat – all federal channels, and the second – network. STRC “Tula”, for example, has not yet been included in the first multiplex, and this channel has not yet seen on digital broadcasting. Question its connection to the “figure” will hopefully be resolved soon.

Complete shutdown of analog TV is planned by the end of 2018: by this time the country should move to digital broadcasting. In the meantime, both analog and digital TV will co-exist …

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Tags: Tula, society, services, digital television, technology, test broadcasting, cellular communications, Sergei Stepanov