ARLA/CLUSTER: Administração britanica solicita clarificação da noticia "Milhões de aparelhos de TV podem se tornar obsoletos no Reino Unido"

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Millions of TV sets may become obsolete - clarification

On Sunday, we carried an item titled 'Millions of TV sets may become
obsolete', in which we said "Ofcom's announcement of the clearance of
the 700 MHz band could spell the end of the road for millions of
'Freeview' TV sets"

Ofcom have since contacted us to say that this is definitely not the
case, and have offered this clarification:

"For most viewers this just means that they will have to retune their
TV a year earlier than they otherwise would have had to. For a small
proportion of viewers  it will mean that they have to replace their
roof top aerial a year earlier than they otherwise would have had to.

"Our estimate is that 105,000 to 110,000 households will need to
change their aerials. This amounts to less than 0.5% of households
that use DTT. We don’t anticipate people will need to change their
aerials until 2017 at the earliest."

2016-03-14 17:31 GMT+00:00 João Costa > CT1FBF <ct1fbf  gmail.com>:
>  Millions of TV sets may become obsolete
>
> Ofcom's announcement of the clearance of the 700 MHz band could spell
> the end of the road for millions of 'Freeview' TV sets
>
> In 2007 Ofcom deliberated on the standard for future TV sets. They had
> a choice between the modern high-efficiency MPEG-4 DVB-T2 standard or
> the old MPEG-2 based DVB-T standard which was developed back in the
> last century.
>
> The DVB-T2 standard supported High Definition and also enabled lower
> definition "625 line" stations to be transmitted using a greatly
> reduced bandwidth potentially allowing many more stations.
>
> Ofcom chose to stick with the old DVB-T MPEG-2 system and in the
> following years people bought millions of those sets in good faith.
>
> Currently some TV channels, such as the BBC's, are duplicated being
> broadcast on both Lower Definition DVB-T and High Definition DVB-T
> multiplexes. Ofcom has now announced that the HD TV multiplexes in the
> 700 MHz band will have to go. This move will force the old DVB-T
> MPEG-2 multiplexes in the remaining 470-694 MHz band to convert to the
> DVB-T2 standard to provide capacity for both lower definition and HD
> channels.
>
> Those lucky enough to have purchased TV's with the "FreeviewHD" logo
> should not be adversely affected by the second Digital Switchover
> (DSO2) but TV's which only say "Freeview" or "HD Ready" could be
> heading for the scrap heap.
>
> November 2007 - Ofcom Consultation on the Future of Digital Television
> http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2007/
> future_of_digital_tv.htm
>
> March 2016 Ofcom consultation on removing 700 MHz TV Multiplexes
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/maximising-benefits-700MHz-clearance/
>
> Trevor M5AKA
>
>
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