SA’s digital migration “on track”
Moving South African television broadcasting from analogue to digital signal was on track and ahead of most countries in the world, the communications department said.
Spokesman Albi Modise said digital signal would be switched on on November 1, 2008, and the analogue signal would be switched off in November 2011 as per Cabinet’s announcement last year.
The three year “dual illumination” period, in which both signals would be used, would allow time for households to be able to receive a digital signal.
Digital signal broadcasting can be accessed using Set Top Boxes which would enable households to use their current television sets.
Modise said the department remained committed to President Thabo Mbeki’s announcement in his State of the Nation address that 50 percent of South African households would have access to digital broadcasting by the end of the year and 80 percent by the end of 2010.
The switch to digital signal forms part of a global phasing out of analogue technology.
Public awareness campaign to inform the public about the digital migration process would commence soon, Modise said.
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