The digitization that nobody is pushing

A half-hearted technology transfer does a country no good. In sharp contrast to the missionary zeal displayed by the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry in pushing through cable digitization, is the situation regarding the digital switch-over for terrestrial TV. The conversion of Prasar Bharati’s analogue transmission to digital, which will enable clarity and compression, has no godfathers—not the Planning Commission, which sanctions the funds, nor the I&B ministry, which has kept the analogue switch-off date at a distant 2017.

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