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The digital television in Cuba is coming. The broadcasts have already started and even in areas of several municipalities in the capital where the reception has always been poor, decoders, known to us as “the box” were given subsidized.
But the stores are in pesos convertible responsible for marketing the boxes, whose price, according to the brand and benefits, between twenty and fifty CUC.
To this should be added that for optimal performance of the cassette tape should be changed bifilar known as downspout by a coaxial cable, sold 0.40 CUC meter purchase and connectors for absolute clarity, the antenna known as “herringbone” which costs about 14 CUCs.
Digital television is not accessible to all; to begin with, in Cuba there is still much TV without terminals for connections to the box, to subsist according to the census last year, black and white TV from the Soviet era.
TVs 32-inch flat screen, depending on the technology, do not drop below 300 and can go up to CUCs 1000.
Nevertheless, in stores where components for digital television are sold usually form tails when they make their ephemeral appearance on coaxial cable and connectors, as retailers buy and then bet in the vicinity of the store itself to proposing them to 1 CUC with a gain of sixty cents.
What it offers
What we can see through the” box “? In addition to the 4 national channels and the provincial and Telesur, a channel children’s cartoons, one music, Cubavisión International and is in testing high-definition channels.
You can also access radio stations, news, weather reports, and services to the population Ecured ephemeris, the very skewed Creole version of Wikipedia.
This step undoubted technological progress does not solve the fundamental problem of the Cuban television.
A television with many canned for not rights that are paid and post them on top of the channel logo that were hacked; but above all, an impoverishment of the production of dramas, and above all, many news and opinion programs that paradoxically do not collect all the information and all opinions.
If you look at Cubavisión International, which assumes that combines the best to show the world, you can imagine how the rest goes.
Bubble Pack
The Cuban, with a philosophy long trained in that of “if you can not skip, flip,” which has successively experienced police persecution of renters videocassette Betamax then VHS, satellite antennas, -even when the service is paid by a cousin from Miami, with its distribution networks wired Half-or people- neighborhood, you can now have alternative programming and letter to the weekly package, one terabyte of everything imaginable: films, series, participation programs, music , health, exercise, cooking, astrology, Animal Planet, National Geographic, gossip magazines, advice for a good life, beauty contests and talent, sports; anything but pornography and politics.
Private entrepreneurs also sneak their advantage and underground advertising can be bad but there are also excellent.
My friend Daisy is a retired nurse poor, yet he managed to buy second hand DVD player and neighboring contiguous, yes care package weekly, free Daisy will record a “combo” of soap operas ranging from Brazilian O Globo to Korean dramas alternating with passing through TV.
People like Daisy are not interested in the problems world; as background noise he heard of the attacks in Paris; the murders of Boko Haram has no idea, and if you know of the crisis Cubans in Central America is because the review of the neighborhood is Dr. Roberto who was in the office of the district six years ago, and the poor, sold until the sewing machine of her grandmother so to raise the money to get to Ecuador and look at him now stranded in Costa Rica.
Young skilled technology have also established their wiring and play in Minecraft network FIFA , Call of Duty, Battlefield or DotA.
The same structure has grown and diversified leading to a real social network where information is exchanged any kind.
No matter what Downloadable these networks are so persecuted and antennas; Hydra heads emerge as more of the cutting; well there is nothing under the Penal Code for that interconnection, and if there is no profit, can not even apply the offense of illicit enrichment.
Albertico, boy of fifteen is Ule in the world DotA. Being a sentinel is much more interested to attend the technology which is licensed to become a bricklayer.
It is believed to be qualified construction workers will never give recognition it enjoys as a virtual hero with special abilities and great experience.
Fed up with his life, Daisy lives the life of his heroes soap opera.
The Daisies of this country or aspire to buy a digital receiver can not and are interested in dealing with the mysteries of a computer; take good care of their old television cathode ray tube because they know that after that, no more.
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Regina Coyula is blogger, human rights activist and critic of the Cuban government. Although denies labels, it is considered a “dissident” in your neighborhood, to say and write what you think. She is considered a critical non-partisan citizen.
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