Camagüey prepared for testing digital TV - Granma

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Camagüey testing digital TV

Lianet LEANDRO LOPEZ

CAMAGÜEY, January 11 -. Nearly 500 households in this city will participate in the testing phase of digital television in the province of Camagüey, distributed in 11 points where the signal of this new technology will be displayed through set-top boxes connected to the receivers.
Since October the transmitter which guarantees the issue settled, and from measurements in different areas of the capital municipality, from the periphery to the center, where technicians areas sampled, explained Yanelda Ruiz, head of the company Radio Cuba would be feasible in the territory is located.

The board told AIN that these points were established randomly in places where a high percent evidenced strength and signal quality criteria now measured at the user level , as appropriate in the deployment phase of its provision.

clarified that as befits a test, delivering top boxes to adapt to the analog digital broadcast reception, there will be massive, but according to the established criteria, and the beneficiaries must show their pursuant to participate in surveys or polls.
Meanwhile, Adelaida López Naples, Specialist Office of the Ministry of Information and Communications in Camagüey, he said that about 500 top boxes assigned to the province will be shared blocks in different neighborhoods, selected through a government commission.

Workers COPEXTEL company is responsible to deliver the equipment and advise people in the facility, which also requires for its effectiveness and downspout appropriate antenna (tape), highlighted Naples.
Cuba advances in the trial period and simultaneous analog and digital television, to be completed in 2022.

obsolescence of conventional transmitters and lack of spare parts, are arguments for changing to another television says the web CubaDebate.

Other qualities such as consistency in receiving all channels, higher quality picture and sound, increase in channels and access them all from a single digital transmitter reduced energy expenditure are advantages the new technology.

In 2014, Camagüey is expected in the installation of two new transmitters of this kind, one in the town of Nuevitas, and one in Santa Cruz del Sur, in the extreme north and south of the territory . (Taken from AIN)