Digitization of Cable

With the Government making it mandatory to go digitized within October 31^st  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 31^st 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 31^st , 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.