ASEAN information ministers agree on applying joint digital broadcasting system
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - ASEAN ministers responsible for information agreed to apply the digital broadcasting technology as standardized broadcasting in ASEAN.
The broadcasting technology standard jointly applied in the ASEAN member countries is the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terestrial) technology of the European digital broadcasting system.
"After several considerations, it was decided to choose the DVB-T which was endorsed by the ASEAN member countries," Minister of Communications and Information Muhammad Nuh as host told a press conference of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) in Jakarta on Thursday.
The agreement was one of the results of the two-day 9th Conference of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) in the framework of ASEAN Digital Broadcasting Cooperation opening on Thursday.
Minister Muhammad Nuh said that the ASEAN ministers need to set a digital broadcasting standard to allow them to have an exchange of information.
While actually agreement had already been reached on a digiral broadcasting system in the ASEAN region, the Minister said that each of the regional grouping`s member country is free to choose and apply the most suirable digital broadcasting technology.
"The most important thing is that whatever the trend being used by the respective member countries, there is a connectivity, so that a bridge needs to be built to arrange the different digital broadcasting technologies being applied," Nuh said.
In the meantime, ASEAN Secretary General Ong Ken Yong said that the ASEAN information ministers had agreed to apply the best and most suitable technology for application in the ASEAN region, namely the DVB-T.
"The ministers said that the European technological standard DVB-T is the best for ASEAN, and by 2015 all the world will switch to digital broadcasting," Ong Ken Yong said.
In the meantime, Secretary Secretary General of the Ministry of Communications and Information Freddy Tulung said that three ASEAN member countries, including Indonesia, are applying the DVB-T as a digital broadcasting system in their respective countries.
Freddy also said that the AMRI senior officials meeting (SOM) AMRI merely discussed the time of the joint switch-off from the analog broadcasting system to the digital broadcasting system for the time being set for 2015.
"In the meantime until 2015, adjustments are being made on the basis of the geographical and social condition of the individual countries," Freddy said.(*)
The broadcasting technology standard jointly applied in the ASEAN member countries is the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terestrial) technology of the European digital broadcasting system.
"After several considerations, it was decided to choose the DVB-T which was endorsed by the ASEAN member countries," Minister of Communications and Information Muhammad Nuh as host told a press conference of the ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) in Jakarta on Thursday.
The agreement was one of the results of the two-day 9th Conference of ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information (AMRI) in the framework of ASEAN Digital Broadcasting Cooperation opening on Thursday.
Minister Muhammad Nuh said that the ASEAN ministers need to set a digital broadcasting standard to allow them to have an exchange of information.
While actually agreement had already been reached on a digiral broadcasting system in the ASEAN region, the Minister said that each of the regional grouping`s member country is free to choose and apply the most suirable digital broadcasting technology.
"The most important thing is that whatever the trend being used by the respective member countries, there is a connectivity, so that a bridge needs to be built to arrange the different digital broadcasting technologies being applied," Nuh said.
In the meantime, ASEAN Secretary General Ong Ken Yong said that the ASEAN information ministers had agreed to apply the best and most suitable technology for application in the ASEAN region, namely the DVB-T.
"The ministers said that the European technological standard DVB-T is the best for ASEAN, and by 2015 all the world will switch to digital broadcasting," Ong Ken Yong said.
In the meantime, Secretary Secretary General of the Ministry of Communications and Information Freddy Tulung said that three ASEAN member countries, including Indonesia, are applying the DVB-T as a digital broadcasting system in their respective countries.
Freddy also said that the AMRI senior officials meeting (SOM) AMRI merely discussed the time of the joint switch-off from the analog broadcasting system to the digital broadcasting system for the time being set for 2015.
"In the meantime until 2015, adjustments are being made on the basis of the geographical and social condition of the individual countries," Freddy said.(*)
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