China to give analog TV the boot by 2015

Wed, Feb 11, 2009

While the US of A is gritting its teeth and hoping the world doesn’t implode when it switches completely to digital TV next February, many other nations around the globe are just now setting up their own timeline. For China, the magic year looks to be 2015. Professor Huang Yong, the deputy editor-in-chief of China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, recently stated that program production would be “turned from analog to digital” seven years from now, though he didn’t say what kind of technology would be used for digital broadcasting. Knowing China, though, it’ll cook up something the rest of the globe has no interest in for the sake of saving on licensing fees.

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