VietNamNet
Bridge – Deputy Minister of Information
and Communication Le Nam Thang believes that it’s now the right time to begin
the transition from analog television to digital terrestrial television, as the
decoder and LCD TV prices have been on the decrease, while the products have
been flooding the market.
Analog
TV’s death to be declared by 2020
Under
the Decision No. 245 of the Prime Minister on the project on transmission,
terrestrial TV broadcasting digitization, 80 percent of households nationwide
would be able to use digital TV services by 2015, while the figure would be
raised to 100 percent by 2020.
Digital
terrestrial TV is expected to account for 55 percent of the TV modes (45 percent
by 2020). Vietnam would strive for the digital terrestrial TV coverage to
transmit the program channels serving political tasks to 60 percent of
population (80 percent by 2020).
The
representative of Department of Radio Frequency Power under the Ministry of
Information and Communication (MIC) said the television stations in five
central cities, including Hanoi, HCM City, Hai Phong, Da Nang and Can Tho would
have to terminate analog TV to shift to digital terrestrial TV prior to
December 31, 2015.
Meanwhile,
other provinces and cities would have to follow another schedule which
comprises of three stages. In the second phase, the transition would be carried
out in 26 provinces and cities by December 2016. The third phase would last
until December 2018, during which the transition would be undertaken in 18
provinces and cities. By the end of the fourth phase, which lasts until
December 2020, 100 percent of households would be able to watch digital TV.
Deputy
Minister of MIC Le Nam Thang has affirmed that it’s now the right time to shift
from analog to digital terrestrial TV, as the technology has got “ripe,” and
the prices of necessary devices have decreased significantly. If the transition
had been implemented earlier, this would have caused a big waste, since people
would have to purchase devices at high prices.
Under
the plan, the transition would finish by 2020. However, Thang thinks that with
the current rapid development of technologies, the plan may be finished sooner
than expected.
Sony
Vietnam, LG Vietnam, Panasonic Vietnam, Samsung Vina all have said they are
providing the products integrated with the feature of receiving digital
terrestrial TV signals with DVB-T standard.
When
asked about the gaps in the prices between normal TVs and the TVs with
integrated digital terrestrial TV, representatives of the electronics
manufacturers provided different figures. While Bien Hoa Electronics said the
price gap could be 20-30 dollars, Panasonic Vietnam said it could be 50-100
dollars.
Manufacturers
have said that integrating digital terrestrial television would not be a big
problem, because all the products have motherboards already, and it’s just
necessary to add a part for receiving digital terrestrial TV signals.
However,
LG Vietnam and Hanel have said that it would be a problem for them to “upgrade”
low cost TV products for rural and difficult areas, because the products would
become less competitive with high prices. It would be not a problem to raise
the prices of high grade TVs by 20 dollars, but it would be a big problem to
charge 20 dollars more on the cheap TVs which are valued at 200 dollars only.
Meanwhile,
Thang has promised that the watchdog agency would take actions to ensure that
there would be no heavy price fluctuations in the prices of TV sets.
Electronics
manufacturers have complained that they were not informed in advance about the
transition plan, while they have set up their business plans already.
Source:
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