Digital television in Malaysia
- See digital television for more technical details.
In
DTV systems
Satellite television
The DTV era in Malaysia began with the introduction of
Digital terrestrial TV
Free-to-air
In 2005, the Ministry of Information announced their plan to digitalise nationwide free-to-air TV broadcasts led by Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM).[3] Trial broadcasts were undertaken, involving one thousand households in the Klang Valley from September 2006 till February 2007. According to the then-Deputy Minister of Information, Chia Kwang Chye, the trial received "very positive" feedback, i.e. "more than 60 percent said the quality of the signal ranged from good to better. Over 88 percent said the picture quality improved, while 70 percent said the sound quality was better".[4]
According to Information Minister Datuk
Malaysia and all other
Despite a success of RTM's pilot trials, the digital terrestrial television transition faced many problems. These problems stemmed from the lesser enthusiasm of content providers toward the digitisation, with the exception of
Future
Although Telekom Malaysia has been rumoured to be builder for a digital terrestrial television infrastructure, TM wishes to improve the broadband infrastructure to increase Internet readiness for the country, which leads to Unifi.
On 8 January 2014, Puncak Semangat was awarded the concession for digital terrestrial television development. The company is obligated to develop the digital terrestrial television infrastructure, which include a digital multimedia hub and a network of high, medium and low-powered digital TV transmitters nationwide that are capable of carrying up to 45 standard-definition or 15 high-definition digital TV channels, for a start. Television and radio services will be offered first while the latter three, connected services (catch-up TV and video on demand), t-commerce (television commerce) and soft services (e-learning applications and SMS voting) will delivered via home broadband networks after the former two.[12]
The first roll-out will start on 16 April 2015 (originally expected to be in the third quarter of 2014),
Once the full digital platform has been rolled out, television broadcasts in analogue will be terminated.[14]
Analogue switch-off
Analogue TV broadcasts would have been shut down in stages, due to complete by 2014 as per recommendation from ASEAN. The DTT migration plan was divided into three phases:[15]
- Phase I (2007–2013)
- Phase II (2014–29 September 2019)
- No analogue TV service
- Vacate DTT service using channels 56 and above
- Vacate LMS in band 477 MHz to 478 MHz
- Phase III (30 September 2019 – 31 October 2019)
- 100% DTT service using channels 5 to 12 and 21 to 54
Television broadcasts in analogue are originally scheduled for 2017, but the transition will be completed after the full-out of the digital platform.
Paid terrestrial television
In 2006,
Broadband and IPTV
Mobile television
U Mobile also provides broadcast mobile TV to users of selected 3G phones, also based on DVB-H.[25]
In October 2008, Astro launched Astro Mobile TV
In 2012, HyppTV launched the HyppTV Everywhere service to counter the lack of fiber coverage. Initially only available to Unifi subscribers, the service was opened up to the public to compensate for the limited Unifi coverage.
HDTV
RTM initiated its inaugural
In late 2009, Astro launched
As of July 2013, Media Prima group chief financial officer Mohamad Ariff Ibrahim told that Media Prima will launch high definition (HD) simulcast for one of its four terrestrial television stations as early as the first half of year 2014.[28] But, audiences are still suffered with SD resolution and stretched 4:3 scale format in most 16:9 TV that majority people own nowadays. Media Prima only start to broadcast selected programmes at 16:9 SD starting from 31 December 2016, however the idents, programme previews, adverts, 4:3 contents and some widescreen programmes remain on 4:3 and improperly stretched (sometimes letterboxed).[citation needed]
In early 2015,
See also
References
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- ^ a b "MCMC picks Puncak Semangat to operate digital tv broadcast service in Malaysia". The Sun. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
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- ^ Alexander Wong (16 October 2019). "West Malaysia has completely switched over from Analogue to Digital TV". SoyaCincau. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Malaysia Beralih Kepada Siaran TV Digital Secara Sepenuhnya Pada 31 Oktober 2019" [Malaysia Turns Into Digital TV Broadcast On 31 October 2019] (PDF) (Press release) (in Malay). Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. 2 April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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- ^ Kamarul Anwar (22 July 2013). "Media Prima to launch HD simulcast in 1H2014". Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
External links
- General
- DVB - Malaysia
- Fulfilling Needs For Digital Media, .my Convergence (Jan 2008)
- Technical Standard for Free To Air Digital Terrestrial Receiver (Set-top-box) (MTSFB 001 : 2008)
- TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR FREE TO AIR DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION RECEIVER (SET-TOP-BOX) Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission
- Providers
- Astro
- Astro Mobile TV Archived 2 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Maxis TV
- U Mobile
- (in Chinese) DETV
- TM IPTV