Digital Switchover Project

Government of Ghana Adopts DVB-T2 as the Transmission Standard For Digital Terrestrial Television

The terrestrial television stations: GTV, TV3, TV Africa, Crystal TV, Metro TV, Viasat1, Net-2 TV, e-TV Ghana, Coastal TV, GhOne, Top TV and all other stations with similar licenses will migrate their transmissions from analogue to a digital platform in accordance with the Geneva 2006 (GE06) Agreement of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

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Digital TV Quality Levels

There are many quality levels of digital television programming. The most common are Standard Definition TV (SDTV), Enhanced Definition TV (EDTV) and High Definition TV (HDTV).

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Migration Plan For Ghana

The National Communications Authority (NCA) undertook re-planning of frequencies in the bands 174-230MHz and 470-862 MHz from 2004 to 2006. This was finalised at the ITU?s Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06) in Geneva where a treaty agreement, GE06, was signed.

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Digital Switchover in Ghana

Compared with today's conventional analogue radio and TV broadcasting, digital broadcasting presents a lot of advantages. Digital systems are preferred over analogue because they provide better quality of sound and images, usually require less power to transmit and take up less bandwidth, therefore allowing more signals to be carried over a given infrastructure with efficiency gains.

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International Trend in Digital Broadcasting

The United States began digital television services in 1998 and has set a target date of February 17, 2009 for analogue switch-off. Canada started its transition to digital broadcasting in 2003 but, as of now, has no target switch-off date. The UK started digital services in 1998 and has set a target date of between 2008 and 2012 for switchover subject to 95 percent of TV homes having access to digital services and possessing digital receivers.

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Digital Broadcasting Standards

Digital broadcasting standards have been developed around the world. The Digital Television (DTV) standard developed in Europe, which is in the same ITU Frequency zone with Africa, is Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). DVB is an alliance of manufacturers, broadcasters, government agencies, and research institutions that have over 300 members. The DVB standards cover terrestrial (DVB-T), satellite (DVB-S), cable (DVB-C) and handheld (DVB-H) platforms.

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Digital Broadcasting Switchover

Digital broadcasting refers to the use of digital techniques in the final mode of transmission of broadcasting signals to viewers/listeners. Digital implies a more robust signal, higher and consistent technical quality, increased flexibility, seamless integration into other applications and services, improved user control over what and when one views or listens, creating greater choice in content, etc.

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