PHILIPPINES Digital TV/DTT..NEWS, EVENTS, UPDATE, & ANALYSIS

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Decision on digital TV standard seen by mid-2012
January 23, 2012


THE NATIONAL Telecommunications Commission (NTC) may arrive at a final decision on which digital television standard to use in the second half of this year, as it has yet to finish a migration plan needed before choosing a standard.

This, as the digital TV migration plan is expected to be completed within the first half of the year, Gamaliel A. Cordoba, NTC commissioner, told BusinessWorld in a phone interview on Friday.
“After finishing the digital TV migration plan, we can move on to choosing the standard. [We’re] hoping we can decide [on a standard] in the second half,” Mr. Cordoba said.

Last August, an NTC technical working group recommended before the agency the adoption of the Japanese Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard rather than the European Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) technology.

After the NTC decides on which digital TV standard to adopt and issues the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for the technology, broadcasting firms can start rolling out the digital signals alongside analog signals.

This, however, will have to wait until the digital TV migration plan is finished.
“The Department of Science and Technology, assisted by by NTC, is formulating the migration plan from analog TV to digital,” Mr. Cordoba said.
“We hope [the migration plan] will be finished within the first half of the year,” he added.
Last November, the NTC decided to formulate a digital TV migration plan before deciding on which standard to use.
“Through the migration plan, we will be able to foresee issues that may come up in the implementation of the country’s shift to digital TV,” Mr. Cordoba said.
The plan will also include a timetable for the implementation of the shift to digital TV and a listing on how much the government, broadcasting firms, and the public are projected to spend, Mr. Cordoba said.
Government will be spending for the spectrum auction of TV signals, the broadcasting firms will spend for the needed infrastructure in rolling out digital TV signals, and the public will need to purchase set-top boxes or new TV sets, Mr. Cordoba previously said.
In 2010, the country aimed to complete the shift to digital TV by 2015, but the NTC in August last year said it may move the target to a later date as the implementation has been long delayed.
In June 2010, NTC, following unanimous industry support, chose Japan’s standard as the country’s digital TV platform over Europe’s DVB technology.
However, the House Committee on Information and Communication Technology, in March 2011, encouraged a review of which standard to adopt, since the upgraded European standard (DVB-2) was not assessed in last year’s review.
The NTC, then, conducted another review and in August 2011, a technical working group of the agency recommended the adoption of the Japan ISDB-T standard.
Aside from Japan, the ISDB-T has been widely adopted in South America.
Meanwhile, the DVB-2 technology has been adopted in Europe, states in South Africa, India, Singapore, and Sri Lanka among others. On the other hand, there are 119 countries that have adopted the first generation European standard, according to the DVB Project Web site. -- Kathleen A. Martin

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ibenta na kasi ang ang gma para makapag digital na soon baka hd na rin sa pinas

[KodaJosh098]

Finally! Some news!

Whatever standard is chosen, ABS-CBN is up for the task!

[NewsDigi]

ang tagal naman ng desision...

eh canada last year pa ang Digitalization ng TV ...

i hope this year tau naman....

[PikonsiJun]

ang tagal naman ng desision...

eh canada last year pa ang Digitalization ng TV ...

i hope this year tau naman....

Sisihin mo ang NTC.

Alam ko na ang Facebook account mo.

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NTC targets release of DTT migration rules in second half
Feb 27, 2012


THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is set to issue by the second half of the year the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) governing the migration from analog to digital terrestrial television (DTT).

Gamaliel Cordoba, NTC commissioner, said the regulator would issue the IRR after it completes the migration plan and finalizes which standard is best suited for the country.

The NTC and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) are expected to complete the migration plan in early April.

The rules were supposed to have been issued in June last year, a year after the NTC released Memorandum Circular No. 02-06-2010 choosing Japan’s integrated services digital broadcast-terrestrial (ISDB-T) as the country’s sole standard for DTT.

But Malacañang ordered NTC to conduct another review of the European and Japanese standards to find out which of them is better technically and in terms of cost-effectiveness.

The NTC set up a technical working group composed of stakeholders in the television broadcast industry, including the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) to formulate the IRR for DTT.

Based on the technical working group’s quotation last year, the ISDB-T receiver ranges from $20.50 to $55 per unit, cheaper than the Europe’s digital video broadcasting-terrestrial 2 (DVB-T2), which costs $33.50 to $62.

More than the features of ISDB, the Philippines is seen to benefit from adopting the Japanese standard as Japan has promised to give financial and technical support to the country’s smooth transition to digital TV.

KBP, together with its major broadcast member-firms ABS-CBN Corp. and TV5, favor the Japanese standard because it operates using the affordable set-top boxes.

ABS-CBN and other KBP members Net 25, RPN, IBC 13, Channel 4 and SBN have all undertaken test broadcasts of ISDB-T.

ABS-CBN has soft-launched its digital TV services called DTV, which will help improve its signal and reception.

The network is estimated to spend P3 billion for migration to digital TV, of which it had spent P500 million for the transmitter, acquisitions and film rights.

GMA Network Inc., which is not a member of KBP, prefers Europe’s DVB-T2. The company said its equipment are digital ready so it can migrate any time the regulator gives its go-signal to start migration to digital.

GMA has allocated P600 million for digital TV.

Digital TV is a system of broadcasting and receiving digital sound and video signals that require a specially designed and more advanced TV set than the traditional analog box.

DTT allows a broadcast network to deliver multiple programs on a single channel using one transmitter, so consumers can watch the programs earlier aired at their own time.

The Philippines will be the first in Asia to adopt the Japanese standard for digital TV. Besides Japan, other countries that adopted ISDB-T were Brazil, Peru, Chile, Venzuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Paraguay.

The country plans to migrate from analog to digital TV by 2015.

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Scuttlebutt
By SHIRLEY MATIAS-PIZARRO
January 29, 2012

• Someone told us that Manny V. Pangilinan is really interested to buy GMA-7 but not in the very public amount being peddled by the owners. As of now, source said negotiations are at a standstill. The source however opined: “Today may be the most opportune time for GMA-7 to sell if they truly intend to sell especially since GMA-7 does not prioritize efforts to advance digital technology.”

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/349544...way-temptation

"..since GMA-7 does not prioritize efforts to advance digital technology.”

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Free DTV Digibox Giveaway by DZMM made this morning
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012


ABS-CBN Digital TV Team via DZMM gave away a free DTV Digibox on the segment of "Failon Ngayon sa DZMM", more to come this week. It is part of the network's test broadcast for digital terrestrial television.

It was part of the program’s Mahiwagang Backpack. One was asked about the impeachment trial and then he got his own DTV Digibox from DZMM. The box was given will be the actual commercial product of ABS-CBN’s 5 years of extensive research for digital TV. It will be released once the NTC gives the go signal for them to market the Digibox commercially.


ABS-CBN Digital TV is broadcasting live on UHF TV-43 in Mega Manila, in simulcast with the ABS-CBN Channel 2, Studio 23, and 5 other free TV channels packed in the spectrum.

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Free DTV Digibox Giveaway by DZMM made this morning
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2012


ABS-CBN Digital TV Team via DZMM gave away a free DTV Digibox on the segment of "Failon Ngayon sa DZMM", more to come this week. It is part of the network's test broadcast for digital terrestrial television.

It was part of the program’s Mahiwagang Backpack. One was asked about the impeachment trial and then he got his own DTV Digibox from DZMM. The box was given will be the actual commercial product of ABS-CBN’s 5 years of extensive research for digital TV. It will be released once the NTC gives the go signal for them to market the Digibox commercially.


ABS-CBN Digital TV is broadcasting live on UHF TV-43 in Mega Manila, in simulcast with the ABS-CBN Channel 2, Studio 23, and 5 other free TV channels packed in the spectrum.


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nice!....abscbn go for it!!!....

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Umagang Kay Ganda on DTV
March 22, 2012


video

[City_Hunter]

anong petsa na NTC

pati ba naman sa gobyerno ni PNoy tinutulugan lang din ito

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Sana dito na lang sa manila nag test broadcast ang ABS-CBN instead of QC kasi sa totoo lang mas maganda ang reception nila doon dahil andoon mismo ang tower nila eh I REALLY CAN'T WAIT NA

NTC GOV'T Do Something

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Sana dito na lang sa manila nag test broadcast ang ABS-CBN instead of QC kasi sa totoo lang mas maganda ang reception nila doon dahil andoon mismo ang tower nila eh I REALLY CAN'T WAIT NA

NTC GOV'T Do Something

Actually, abot hanggang Cavite ang Test Broadcast ng ABS-CBN. You just need the right gear.

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kung totoong nagkabentahan na sa kamuning area, mukhang nalalapit na rin umabante itong dtv......

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Japanese standard endorsed for use in digital TV system
May 23, 2012


THE SCIENCE and Technology department has endorsed to Malacañang the adoption of the Japanese standard for digital television in a migration plan needed to finalize long-awaited implementing rules.

"If you look at the technical details and consider the country’s [economic] condition, what we need is a Japanese model," Louis Napoleon C. Casambre, executive director of the agency’s Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO), said in a telephone interview last Monday.

EASIER TO USE

The migration plan submitted to the Office of the President "a few weeks ago" took into consideration ease of use as well, Mr. Casambre added.

"The Japanese is a more appropriate model. While the European model has higher modulation, it has more complicated modulation techniques," he said in weighing the differences between the Japanese Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB-T) standard against Europe’s Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) technology.

Malacañang ordered the ICTO last year to draft the migration plan to aid the government in deciding which standard to use in the country’s shift to digital TV, Mr. Casambre said.

IMPLEMENTING RULES NEXT

The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), which had earlier been tasked to recommend the digital TV standard, last week said it was instead waiting for President Benigno Simeon S. C. Aquino III to approve the ICTO’s migration plan.

NTC Commissioner Gamaliel A. Cordoba told BusinessWorld the economic managers will then take part in the crafting of the implementing rules and regulations since the shift to the digital platform "will have a big economic impact."

"We are just waiting for the [ICTO] and economic managers’ advice as to when will be our next meeting," he added.

Mr. Cordoba went on to echo that the Japanese model would be cheaper to implement.

"The European [model] is good technologically wise," Mr. Cordoba said.

"The Japanese [model has] has less technological advantages but it is cheaper."

PREPARED

According to, Messrs. Casabre and Cordoba, the migration plan includes the pricing of equipment that TV networks need to roll out, channel planning, and how the transition to digital TV will be implemented per area in the country.

Sought for comment, senior executives of the country’s top broadcasters said they were prepared to shift to digital TV.

"Whether it is a Japanese or a European model, we are ready. That is why we have allotted P700 million for the equipment," Rolando P. Valdueza, ABS-CBN Corp.’s chief financial officer, said at the sidelines of the company’s financial briefing last week.

"Our network upgrade has been geared [towards the adoption] of the digital television," Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr., GMA Network, Inc. president and chief operating officer, said separately in a financial briefing last week.

The ICTO endorsement backs the Kapisanan ng mga Brokaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) and an NTC technical working group’s recommendation last year to adopt the Japanese model.

KBP had said that the Japanese model is cheaper. It noted DVB-T2 set-top boxes, which are required to enable analog TV sets to receive digital signals, cost 60% more than ISDB-T boxes.

However, the House of Representatives Committee on Information and Communication Technology in March last year asked a review of which standard to adopt, arguing the upgraded European standard (DVB-2) was not assessed in the review conducted in 2010.

Mr. Cordoba said that while the first-half target will not be met for the release of the implementing rules and regulations, the issuance of such rules "will not go beyond this year."

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It's already mid-2012...

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MANILA - (UPDATED 4:57 p.m.) The National Telecommunications Commisison in two weeks will endorse to Malacanang the adoption of the Japanese standard for the Philippines' migration to digital terrestrial TV.

Carlo Martinez, NTC deputy commissioner, said the regulator and the Department of Science and Technology will recommend Japan’s Integrated Service Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial or ISDB-T standard.

"Our movement depends upon the favorable recommendation of the economic management team," Martinez said.

He said NTC and DOST chose the Japanese standard because it is cheaper than Europe's Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial 2 or DVB-T2. Add to that, Tokyo has offered to put up a set-top box factory in the Philippines, and the ISDB-T has an early warning system for earthquakes.

Felipe Gozon, GMA Network Inc. chairman, said the company was "more inclined" to adopt the European standard.

"I don’t know how the government can force us to use the Japanese standard because we are going to use our money to buy the equipment. We are not going to borrow from them. Does the government dictate on Philippine Airlines what aircraft it will buy?" Gozon said.

"Since we are going to invest our money, it is our study that will control our decisions. It's as simple as that, but we already told the NTC we are studying the European standard," he added.

Except for its transmitters, about 90 percent of GMA7's equipment is digital.

The Kapisanan ng Brodkaster ng Pilipinas had said the cost of the STB for DVB-T2 was "substantially higher” by almost $20 than ISDB-T.

“The low cost of STB lowers the entry or migration barrier for the consumer and hastens the ASO,” KBP said, referring to the analogue shut-off date.

The group said the price of P2,000 to P3,000 for each STB is considered "affordable" by consumers.

KBP said there is only one manufacturer of the Japanese STB while there are several for the European version.

The NTC was supposed to issue the implementing rules and regulations for digital TV in July last year but was delayed because of the review ordered by Malacañang.

In 2010, the regulator issued an order adopting ISDB-T as the standard. Besides Japan, other countries that have adopted ISDB-T were Brazil, Peru, Chile, Venzuela, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Paraguay.

The Philippines had planned to migrate from analog to digital TV come 2015. Free-TV or non-cable households comprise 90 percent of the country's 17 million.

With a report from Krista Angela M. Montealegre

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^bumanat na naman itong si atty. gozon, ni di nga nagtetest ng kahit anong dtv technology....

kahit na approbahan ng gov't. yan hahaba pa rin ang paghihintay natin nito hanggat may kampo na sasalungat.......hello TRO.....

hay naku...ibenta mo na nga lang kay mvp yang istasyon mo.......