The deadline for Ghana's migration from analogue to digital platform is December 2014 and it just dawned on me that the International Telecommunications Union(ITU)'s deadline for the analogue to digital migration is 2015. Which means that sooner than later, all analogue tv's must be flashed out of Ghana and any other countries that haven't migrated yet. This has deemed it necessary to introduce set-top boxes or better still decoders into the Ghanaian market to enable tv viewers to never miss up on any of their favourite tv programmes. The migration is going to offer an improved spectrum efficiency as compared to the analogue and also enhance the Sound and video quality and even increase program choices as well as give Tv fans nothing but the best.
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This indicates that Tv viewers will require Tv sets with the capability to receive digital television signals transmitted according to the set standards that is the Integrated Digital Tv (IDTv). But viewers who have got analogue tv's will require special set top boxes or receivers in order to watch free to air tv.
The National Communications Authority (NCA) have released certain specifications and all television stations operating in Ghana with similar licenses will have to migrate before the deadline December 2014.
But come to think of it my main problem here is that although something of this sort is about to happen, no advertisements or any form of education is going on to inform the ordinary Ghanaian who has no idea about stuffs like this or better still that man in a remote village some where in some rural part of Ghana get know or understand what is going on when the analogue system is finally 'switched off'?
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