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Decision time for digital TV standard

3 Nov 2010

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) task team, which is investigating which digital terrestrial television broadcasting standard the region should adopt, will report its findings on Monday, 22 November 2010.

The task team will submit its findings at a SADC meeting of ministers in Lusaka on that date.

A senior broadcasting industry source close to the situation says all indications are that the report will be in favour of again committing SADC to the European standard, known as digital video broadcasting terrestrial (DVB-T). However, there are believed to be dissenting voices, among them Angola.

Thanks to an about-turn by the South African department of communications earlier this year, the region's migration to from analogue to digital broadcasts has been thrown in disarray.

Continue reading the full story, as well as Parliament loses Vadi on www.TechCentral.co.za.

Source: TechCentral

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