DVB-T for all? Not really … – Polish The Times

Date added: 2014-04-28 9:32:23 p.m. Last updated: 2014-04-28 9:49:15 p.m.

Contrary stereotypes Poland is not in the tail of Europe in terms of digitization – argued in February this year, the minister of administration and digitization Rafał Trzaskowski. Meanwhile, the Office of Electronic Communications calculations show that half a million Poles not receiving digital terrestrial and over one million it is impossible to pick the correct version of the regional TVP. The process of digitization of terrestrial television began November 7 2012, and was completed in July 2013. From that moment on receiving terrestrial television broadcasting shows throughout the Polish is only possible in a digital way. Were excluded analog TV transmitters, which replaced the so-called. multiplexes. Owners newer TVs in most cases, many do not have. The rest have to buy and connect a decoder (also called set-top box). Sometimes it was necessary to also upgrade antenna systems.

Institutions responsible for the whole process (including Maica) has announced the completion of the digitization of television and attach to the top of Europe. The reality, however, is not so pink …

Since the completion of the digitization of television began to run down to the institutions involved in this process numerous complaint inhabitants from the areas of “white spots”, who do not have access to digital terrestrial television signal or have limited access to it. Such an appeal, inter alia, issued a Association of Municipalities and Districts Little Poland to the minister of administration and digitization, Minister of Infrastructure and the UKE. The problem with the signal reception of digital television is not the only area Malopolska, but it occurs in all mountainous areas of the provinces of Lower Silesia, Silesia and podkarpacki. According to UKE expertise, conducted at the request of the National Council of Radio and Television, in

Poland is currently around half a million people “televised excluded”, and more than a million you can not receive the correct version of the regional TVP. In this case also intervened NBC on TV, Maica and UKE. So far, to no avail.

Although many Polish citizens do not have the technical capability of receiving television, the government plans to introduce a fee audiovisual, which would be universal and mandatory. Nobody cares if a citizen has a TV, and if the TV signal at all to it arrives. Everyone has an obligation to pay for public television. Interestingly, despite the mandatory fee TVP will continue to broadcast advertising. Subject causes quite a stir, especially among Internet users. Most believe that before the introduction of a compulsory charge for all citizens of the state should at least provide technical access to public television signal and give a chance to those who do not have a TV and do not want to have.

Contrary to appearances, the problem of “excluded televised” can be easy fix. A possible solution to this problem mentioned repeatedly SES Astra satellite operator working with TVP. It is so called. Headlights white spots, or distribution of a digital signal via satellite in areas where terrestrial transmission does not reach. Such a solution has applied a number of European countries, including France, Great Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Poland, such a solution was considered and even TVP together with SES Astra announced them at a joint conference in 2009. Changed, however, and the president of the Polish Television TVP Satellite Platform project died a natural death a few weeks after launch. How to say representatives of SES Astra, the technical capabilities to launch satellite broadcasting all the time there are (TVP leases capacity on Astra satellites). But it seems that the fate of the excluded are not interested in our government …

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