The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said Thursday analog TV services in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province, Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province, and Gangjin, South Jeolla Province, will be stopped from the latter half of 2010.
They will also be ended on Jeju Island from 2011, a KCC spokesman said.
The regulator plans to financially support households in the areas to install converter boxes for over-the-air viewers to continue watching digital programming.
But the households who have already bought digital television sets or paid for cable TV or Internet-based TV will be excluded from the subsidy programs.
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The digital TV transition will mark the end of analog television broadcasting that had been in use for more than 50 years. After 2013, all TV stations in South Korea will broadcast digital signals.
Under the digital TV system, many viewers are expected to find an improvement in picture and sound quality, as well as the ability to pick up additional channels that offer programming such as local weather and classic TV shows.
Original plans were to make the complete switch to digital in 2012. The US made the switch in June, and Japan will do it in 2011.
1 comment:
Oh, crap. It's one of those cases where they're copying the US, but they're copying a crappy thing in the US that hasn't worked.
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