Digital TV to be introduced in metros

NEW DELHI, FEB. 2. Digital television transmission will be introduced this year in the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, to mark the beginning of digital technology in broadcasting.

``The entire analogue transmission will be phased out by 2,012,'' the Chief Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, Mr. Rajeeva Ratna Shah told the 6th international conference and exhibition on Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcasting.

Inaugurating the three-day conference, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley, said that even while the country was progressing rapidly in broadcasting technology, it had to be ensured that television reached the 71 per cent of the population which had no access to it.

The Government would soon complete an exercise on a ``comprehensive'' broadcasting legislation and its benefits would be felt by the society.

Mr. Jaitley said that preventing technology from entering India would mean repeating ``the mistake which delayed television by 20 years.''

Mr. Y. N. Chaturvedi, Secretary, I&B, said that direct-to-home (DTH) television might soon find its way into the country, changing the broadcasting scenario.

- PTI

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