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City to experiment Digital TV broadcasting
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CHINA plans to conduct an experimental digital television broadcast in Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai this year, a national conference held in the city was told on Saturday.
China has developed the key digital television broadcasting technology on its own and the three cities have been designated as experimental areas for the TV broadcasting, according to officials attending the national conference on the matter.
Shenzhen plans to make the digital television broadcasting service available to 10,000 households.
China has patented 26 technologies concerning digital TV broadcasting and transmission systems since May 1999, and the figure is expected to exceed 40 within this year, sources said.
China has formulated seven technical standards on digital TV broadcasting and standards on related receivers are being formulated.
However, no timetable has been made to replace analogue TV sets with digital ones. Officials with the State Development Planning Commission pointed out that an earlier report by a local newspaper that SZ will replace the present analogue TV programmes wholly with digital TV ones in 2005 is actually impracticable since the country still has a very long way to go before realizing the goal.
It is also released that China has at least kept abreast of the latest research and development in the sector in the world.(SD-Agencies)
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