Philippines going Digital TV

In the television industry in the Philippines, there is a huge war between Analog and Digital systems. But that is about to change. Philippines is expected to go Digital in terms of Television Broadcasting. This is by virtue of the National Telecommunications Commission's Memorandum Circular No. 02-06-2010 known as the Standard for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Broadcast Service which states that there is a need to adjust on the current trend in television broadcasting and Television Broadcasting companies should switch to Digital.

If you are wondering about what is the difference between Analog and Digital broadcasting systems, then here are some stuffs that might help you:

Comparison by example of Analog and Digital:

1. The Sun is analog while a house light is digital.
2. Our eyes are analog while a digital camera is trivially digital.
3. A photo printed on a paper is analog while a photo on a computer screen is digital.
4. Your voice is analog while the songs in your smartphone are digital.

Can you see some patterns?

Basically, when you say that a thing is analog, it usually refers to a real stuff but a thing is said to be digital if it tries to simulate the real stuffs by using 2-state representations. A house light can be turned "on" or "off" but the Sun doesn't work that way. Pictures on a digital camera or songs in a smartphone are represented by a series of 0s (zeroes) and 1s (ones) called bits (which then when grouped together becomes bytes, kilobytes, or megabytes). Thus making the digital pictures and songs 2-state represented and makes them digital.

Now, what do we mean by Analog broadcasting?

It's simply a natural way of broadcasting in a specific radio frequency.

How about Digital broadcasting?

Broadcasting in a specific radio frequency will be done in a 2-state represented mechanism.

This then will make our television systems to have a better and clearer display since there is now a way for correcting errors by using the 2-state representations in radio frequency broadcasting.

As of today, majority of the Filipinos are still used to the Analog Television Systems. This may be because of the Filipinos' cultural value of putting sentiments on a certain property. That's why even in the mainstream of LED HDTVs and Smart TVs, many still prefer the old traditional CRT TVs.

Let's all wait what will happen in 2015 on wards but I think it's a new television era in the Philippines.