On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:27 PM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd
<kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
Inspite of having more broadcasting professionals, a larger market and
more broadcasters Kenya's lagging behind as Rwanda goes DTT.
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Thursday, 27th August 2009
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Rwanda to have digital broadcasting by next year BY GERTRUDE MAJYAMBERE
Rwanda will fully start digital broadcasting by March next year, five
years earlier than the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
deadline for all countries to adopt the terrestrial digital
broadcasting.
This means that Office Rwandais d’Information - Orinfor, a state owned
information agency will have the capacity to host eight different
channels.
The agency’s officials say that preparations are in high gear with the
construction of Television and FM radio towers countrywide.
Innocent Nkurunziza, Head of Technical Department at Orinfor said they
signed a contract with HARRIS, an American company to manufacture,
supply, deliver, install and train staff about digital transmitters.
He said that according to the contract between the two parties,
transmitters will be manufactured next week and after 90 days the
equipment will be ready for shipment.
With Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVBT) digital
broadcasting, top quality images and sound is telecast whereas
analogue signals are subject to fade and interference.
The trial for digital broadcast in Rwanda started in 2005 with
different channels including CNN, TV5 and Rwanda Television.
For some one to receive a digital signal, a set top box will be needed
to convert digital signal to analogue to be watched on TV or posses a
digital TV. According to Nkurunziza, a set top box costs about $100.
“When we go digital broadcasting apart from quality images and sound,
editing will be much easier, faster and safer compared to analogue,”
Nkurunziza said.
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