Posts Tagged ‘Digital TV’

What Every Consumer Should Know about Digital TV (DTV)

December 17th, 2009

By Judy Mubuu

BY 2012, the world would have shifted from analogue to digital Broadcasting ahead of the 2015 global headline.

With this imminent shift therefore, unscrupulous traders could be flooding the Kenyan market with fake Digital Television sets and set-top boxes. Unsuspecting buyers would easily be lured into buying TV sets believing they are digital yet they are not. Experts have in the past warned of this danger but crooks are always crooks, they would always want to take advantage of ignorant consumers. To ensure consumers don’t fall in this trap, this is what experts say on what Kenyans should know about the Digital broadcasting. » Read more: What Every Consumer Should Know about Digital TV (DTV)

On digital TVs and role of KBC

December 14th, 2009

How wide is Digital TV coverage in Kenya? Is KBC going to be a monopoly on Signal distribution?

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Daniel Obam and Bitange Ndemo on Digital TV in Kenya

December 14th, 2009

Beware there are currently no Digital TVs in Kenya. Do not be cheated that the flat screens, plasmas you see around are digital. No! if your TV can receive analogue signals, then it is not Digital.
According to Permanent Secretary, Dr Bitange Ndemo, we got only one TV set into the country that is digital ready.

Although we had the launch, local broadcasters have not started to utilize the
channels 24 hours. They have either not embraced this technology or they
lack content all together. In my view we shall begin to see alot more
content in six months. Right now if you had only digital TV, you may be
bored with the content I am seeing. It is therefore advisable to have a
converter possibly until 2012 when we shall have migrated fully-Ndemo

Listen and Watch Obam speak about the status of Digital TVs in Kenya

Obam on Digital Tv