With the Government
making it mandatory to go digitized within October 31st for all the metropolitan cities of India
including Delhi the people of all the states had gone completely haywire,
moreover the flashing of “Go digital by
October 31st or else go blank” had almost snatched away the sleep
of the housewives who eat and live with the typical Saas Bahu soaps and the
ever talked about reality shows like big boss, India’s got talent and many more. Though most
part of the India as a matter of fact is digitized but recent reports suggests that
the Government is even planning to extend the date of digitization deadline
like in Chennai the Information and the Broadcasting Ministry has extended the
deadline till December 31st , 2012.But a very common query which
might arise in a common man’s mind is
that what was the need of digitization from the present analog process. Let us know it in full detail.
Broadcasting of programs
in Television is done in two modes one is analogue and the other being digital.
In the analogue category there are three types of systems that are used namely
NTSC,PAL and SECAM. In the digital category also there are four similar systems
namely DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T and DTMB. In case of digitization the signal
transmits the information in binary code taking less bandwidth and thereby
enabling the broadcasters to provide more number of channels. In addition to
this it also provides several other information like program guides, additional
language options subtitles and most importantly providing high definition picture
quality which makes watching television a live experience. All the countries
across the world are switching over to digitization and also in India it will
be fully implemented in almost all the states in stages. The switch off mode of
your remote disables analogue TV from receiving broadcasts and hence you need
to install set top boxes which acts as a converter to digital.
Well, I have recently
installed the set top box in my home and there are as many as 899 channels and
I am still not able to decide which channels I should see which I should not. So
go digital this winter and watch your favorite programs.