Friday, August 30, 2013

Analog television will disappear by 2015 - Dni.Ru

Photos: GLOBAL LOOK press

Photo: GLOBAL LOOK press

“Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network” (RTRS) plans in 2015 to disable the analog television throughout Russia. However, broadcasting is not terminated until, until 95% of the population will acquire a receiver for receiving a digital signal.

Turning off analogue television will free up frequencies for the construction of the third multiplex (package of channels broadcasting on the same frequency). Additionally, interested in the trip broadcaster, whose channels are included in the second multiplex, as they have pay distribution, and analog and digital TV “- said the deputy director of RTRS Viktor Pinchuk.

program is scheduled to submit to the government at the end of September . According to Pinchuk, the program will be fixed approach to the definition of analogue switch-off date for each region, RIA Novosti reported.

Disable analog television will not be as long as no more than 5% of the households for which this technique is the only source of the signal will not get the opportunity to receive the digital signal.

At the end of June this year, CEO reported that by 2015 97% of the population of Russia should have free access to 20 TV channels in digital quality modern standard DVB-T2.

According to him, in accordance with the international obligations of Russia if the analog signal will interfere with digital broadcasting in the territory of neighboring states, it must be turned off to July 17, 2015. Disabling the old analog broadcasting will start from the 26 regions of the Russian border.

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