{"id":17725,"date":"2011-01-14T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-14T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:25:00","slug":"digital-tv-standards-battle-ends-logic-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/17725-digital-tv-standards-battle-ends-logic-prevails.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital TV standards battle ends: Logic prevails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister of Communications Radhakrishna “Roy” Padayachie<\/a> has formally announced the department’s allegiance to the DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television (DTT) standard.<\/p>\n

This comes after a recommendation from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) that the Southern African region adopt DVB-T2 as its DTT standard<\/a> and a long battle between the European DVB-T and Japanese ISDB-T digital broadcasting standards<\/a> in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The committee of ministers responsible for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for SADC recommended in November 2010 that the region adopt DVB-T2 using MPEG4 compression as the official DTT standard.<\/p>\n

Padayachie’s confirmation that South Africa will stick with the DVB family of standards for terrestrial broadcasts should allow the industry to proceed with South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Brazilian advances confirmed<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a press briefing held in Midrand today, Padayachie confirmed that the Brazilian government had approached the South African government to consider ISDB-T after DVB-T had already been chosen as our national broadcasting standard.<\/p>\n

This had been widely speculated before, but the Minister confirmed this for the first time today.<\/p>\n

Deadline extended<\/strong><\/p>\n

Padayachie also announced that the deadline for analogue switch-off, which was 1 November 2011, would be moved to December 2013 in accordance with the recommendations of SADC.<\/p>\n

The Minister emphasised that the decision was that of the South African government, ratified by cabinet, and not of the DoC alone.<\/p>\n

The international cut-off date prescribed by the ITU is June 17 2015.<\/p>\n

Digital TV standards battle ends: Logic prevails<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African Department of Communications has officially confirmed DVB-T2 as South Africa's national digital terrestrial broadcasting standard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}