Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Mexico says goodbye to analogue television – Blasting News

A few days of completion of the 2015 Mexico prepares to leave behind Latin America and become the first country in this region, in carrying out the “analogue blackout”.

2004 the current president, Vicente Fox, said the transition to Digital Terrestrial (DTT), Television would take place until 2021. However, after some modifications to the dates during the subsequent six-year, reached the conclusion achieved in “analogue blackout” on December 31, 2015.

To meet the needs of a population with low resources incapable of coping with “digital switchover”, the Ministry of Social Development (SEDESOL) would responsible for drawing up the list of beneficiaries registered with scarce resources to its programs, the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) would make the distribution of TV time throughout the national territory and the Federal Telecommunications Institute corroborate that television stations open digital are digitized and coverage reaches every home.

So, on Monday December 14, the SCT, Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, presented the TV number nine million, Tepic Nayarit. Esparza said that conclude with the goal of delivering 9.7 million televisions on 20 December. Recall that the first digit displays granted by the SCT would reach 13. 8 million, but due to budget cuts and changes of address, which argued the same secretariat, the number of beneficiaries fell 4.1 million.

However the “analogue blackout” is forward and on Thursday December 17 will reach Mexico City and the states of Sonora, Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Mexico State, making 75 percent of the digital coverage National:. to 14 days the time limit for the “analogue blackout” and just three days before fulfilling all screens delivered in the words of SCT

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