Sandford 2011

In 2006 countries in ITU region 1 committed to a transition to digital television by the year 2015. After this year, digital TV broadcasters will no longer have any obligation to protect continuing analogue broadcasts from interference.

This course explains the fundamentals of television broadcast system, as well as exploring the advantages of digital TV both for production and transmission. A substantial part of the course also examines the four main digital TV standards, discussing the technological and economic advantages of each. Further examination of the value of a national digital plan will be followed by a comphrehensive illustration of previous analogue to digital switch over case studies. The course will conclude with a review of second generation digital TV standards investigating their advantages over the older first generation standards.