Why digital TV: 500 000 households at risk of black screen?
by Wang Yin on Oct.26, 2009, under life
Today saw a news about digital TV ,I think the news very funny.Because I normally is to play the game about champions online and earth eternal online,rarely watch television,but we should attach importance to the things.This is about the things.
The transition to all digital television could be 500 000 people by end 2011, the date of termination of analog broadcasting on French territory, due to coverage of DTT too low. This was announced Méar Alain, a member of the Supreme Council of Audiovisual (CSA), after a hearing Wednesday before members.
The process of analogue switch was initiated last February in Coulommiers and experience a breakthrough February 2, 2010 with the extinction of the Alsace region, before the France travel from east to west, then north to south to the second half of 2011, Provence and the Alps, the final stages of this tour de France (1). But as the United States last June when 2.5 million U.S. homes were left without a signal, the changeover to digital creates gray areas in France.
Members from all sides were concerned about with Mears and Alain Michel Boyon, president of CSA, at a meeting this Wednesday. The reason for their agitation is a number that TDF, the main television broadcaster in France, has provided 1.3 million households at risk of black screen by 2011. Alain Méar was more cautious in his estimate. He said that 500 000 households are at risk of such inconvenience, noting that this figure could be reduced to 150 000 (for households rather located in the mountains) using emitting stronger. The only solution for those excluded from digital satellite.
On 8 October, the CSA has also published the results of the barometer of the Observatory of household equipment for receiving digital television. Among the important figures, we learned that 39% of households were already fully digitized (either through Freeview, cable, satellite or DSL) but only 17.2% received no further than the television terrestrial analog.
(1) 2010: Alsace, February 2, Lower Normandy, March 9, Pays de la Loire, May 18, Britain, June 8, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne, September 28, Poitou-Charente and Center, October 19, Franche Comté and Burgundy, November; North, 7 December. In 2011: Ile de France, March 8. The CSA has not yet decided the exact dates for the remaining region.
