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Digital Broadcasting Network to cover Belarus by 2015
By 2010, terrestrial digital broadcasting using the DVB system will be available in all the regional centres of Belarus and by 2015 the broadcasting network will cover the whole country, according to an article on E-Belarus.org.
The piece goes on to say that these, the objectives of the State Programme for Digital TV and Radio Broadcasting were adopted by the Belarusian government on February 16, 2006. At present, digital broadcasting is only available in Minsk.
Source: E-Belarus.org
Item added: 21st March 2006
Belarus to switch to Digital TV Broadcasting by 2015
In July 2005 the Ministry of Communication and Information, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Finance are to submit "The state programme of Digital TV broadcast introduction" for approval.
According to the draft programme technical and judicial regulations will be worked out during 2005-2008 as well as pilot trials some of which have already begun. Beltelecom will also install fibre-optic connections between TV broadcast stations in preparation for the switch to an all digital service. Equipment modernization will take place during 2005 - 2009 and by 2010 Belarusian TV producers Horizont and Vitiaz are to develop domestic digital TV receivers.
The government intend that DVB services will be launched in the whole of Belarus by 2015.
Source: RedNova
Item added: 14th July 2005
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Belarus launches DVB-T pilot
The Belarus National State Teleradio Company has launched terrestrial digital broadcasting for Minsk and the Minsk region.
The broadcaster launched a pilot project of four digital TV channels and a radio channel on 28 December, 2004, at a cost of €312,000, according to the deputy minister of communications, Valdimir Teslyuk.
At the second stage of the project, digital terrestrial broadcasting will be launched in five regional centres. At the third stage, the project will expand to ten further regional centers, at a cost of €3m. The total budget of the project comes to €4.9m.
According to the government’s digital broadcasting development strategy, Belarusian state companies Horizont and Vityaz will launch digital TV receiver and DVB-T application production later this year.
Source: DMeurope.com 04/01/2005, Mikhail Doroshevich
http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=5201
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