Pretoria - Acting Director-General of the Department of Communications, Ndivhuho Munzhelele, will be the keynote speaker at the Public Sector Manager (PSM) Forum on Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in Kimberly, Northern Cape, later today.
Munzhelele will be sharing the planned roll-out of the Digital Migration project and its benefits to all South Africans at the Forum, which will be hosted by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS).
The PSM Forum provides public service managers and various stakeholders with a platform to thoroughly engage with policy makers.
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT)
DTT is a reliable and cost efficient means to distribute linear television content and has many advantages over the old, analogue broadcasting that is still in use today.
Digital migration refers to the switch from an analogue broadcasting system to a digital broadcasting system and this has been a world-wide move which is being driven by the ITU.
In order to view digital television signals on an ordinary analogue television set, consumers will need a so-called Set-Top-Box. The purpose of the Set-Top-Box is to convert the DTT signal for reception on an ordinary analogue television set.
If consumers haven’t acquired a set top box by analogue switch-off, they will no longer be able to view the existing terrestrial television broadcasting services
The South African Communications Department anticipates the rollout of Set-Top-Boxes to be completed in the coming 18-24 months so that South Africans can switch off analogue signal and begin to realise the benefits of digital dividend to allow for the rollout of Wireless Broadband Services. - SAnews.gov.za
