Digital TV standards: The truth

Nice summary.

Who's pockets are getting lined this time?
 
always interests somewhere. DVB-T/T2 has proven to be the best in terms of efficiency and active research. Obvious choice.
 
UnUnOctium said:
always interests somewhere. DVB-T/T2 has proven to be the best in terms of efficiency and active research. Obvious choice.
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Biggest factor is economics of scale. Due to the volume of DVB devices around the world they will be much cheaper than the ISDB units only used in one or two countries.
 
So to a layman like myself, it appears that DVB-T2 seems to be the one to go with? Why the hell then faf with ISDB-T other than who stands to benefit from the procurement?
 
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5499818
South African decoder manufacturers face the threat of being shut out of the country's move to convert its broadcasting system to a new digital platform, should the government opt for Japan's digital broadcasting standard.

About 20 multinational companies - including LG, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony - already manufacture receivers for countries using Japan's Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard. These companies could stiffly compete for the untapped African market. Currently, only Japan and Brazil use the ISDB-T standard.
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The National Association of Manufacturers in Electronic Components (Namec), which represents 46 black-owned electronic firms with the capacity to make decoders for the ditigal changeover, supports the Japanese standard.

Namec says it will advance such government objectives as stimulating local intellectual property production and transformation in the electronic sector. Keith Thabo, the chairman of Namec, said it had been approached by some industry players to lobby the government to support the Japanese standard.
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Source: ITWeb
Explosive evidence has come to light implicating the Department of Communications (DOC) in a campaign to prevent the European digital TV standard, DVB, from being implemented in Southern African countries.

Rumours are also circulating that there may be a power station on the cards for SA, if it agrees to move with Brazil on the Japanese standard.

The DOC recently instigated a review of SA's decision to implement the DVB standard, introducing the Japanese TV standard as a secondary option, which has been implemented by several South American countries.

Several independent sources have told ITWeb that during a meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) leaders in technology, held in April, a representative from the department indicated the local trials on the European standard had been riddled with technical difficulties.
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Speaking to ITWeb from Mauritius, one of the leading engineers governing Mauritius's digital TV migration, Amoordalingum Pather, confirmed he had been part of the closed session at the conference.

He says a representative from the DOC had explained that the DVB standard in SA had been a failure. According to Pather, the representative from SA told those present in a closed meeting that the department has a report which shows the trials on DVB in SA have been riddled with technical failures.

Pather says he was surprised by the details given to those present in the meeting, since both MNet and etv had shown how successful their implementation of DVB has been. He also says Mauritius's own implementation of DVB has been exceptionally successful.

Mauritius has almost completed its digital migration process, with nearly 100% coverage and 80% of the country already watching digital TV, Pather explains. He says the country will have completed its migration process by next year.

“There is no way we can change the standard now; we will have to redo the entire migration again,” he notes.
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I also wanted to post that someone has an hidden agenda.

I see it has already been posted many times.

It is quite obvious that someone is trying to influence the decision to suite them better.
 
ponder said:
Biggest factor is economics of scale. Due to the volume of DVB devices around the world they will be much cheaper than the ISDB units only used in one or two countries.
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Where have you been - in a time warp? The biggest factor has f'all to do with economics of scale! it is all about the size of the back pocket to be filled.
 
It is all political
1) the (insane) uplink dream of people talking to the government from their home, which has already added a substantial sum to the decoder cost.
2) it is a ploy to defer the necessary decision whether the TV reception will be free or be enforced via a decoder smart card.
 
So to let me summarize - the gov is talking K@K again and someone has a hand in the cookie jar. Roger message received.
 
davemc said:
I wonder why these 2 were not included in the original parliament endorsed investigation.
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A valid question, the answer to which I left out of this summary while including it in a previous article (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/12949-Will-you-pay-for-DoCs-Digital-shambles.html). Sorry about that.

ISDB-T was considered in the previous two investigations (one in 2002 and one in 2006) and rejected due to technical and economic factors.

The DVB-T2 standard was only adopted in 2009 and the first systems started broadcasting early this year (according to a source at Orbicom). By contrast, ICASA had published our new digital broadcasting regulations in 2008 and M-Net and e.tv's trials had begun on that already.
 
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