Analog tuners in new televisions

12 element

Do you think that the television manufacturers will continue to put analog tuners in their tv's.
Is the hardware the same in an analog and digital tv?

The Cush

12 element wrote: »

Do you think that the television manufacturers will continue to put analog tuners in their tv's.
Is the hardware the same in an analog and digital tv?

I guess it will depend on the country or region where the TVs are to sold. Most of western Europe should have switched off analogue terrestrial broadcasting by the end of 2013 with maybe 2 countries delaying until 2015 but analogue cables services may last longer.

Does it really cost much extra to continue to include analogue tuners in TVs?

winston_1

There is only one tuner in a TV used for both analogue and digital services.

An analogue decoder will still be required for inputs from a scart socket. That just leaves the demodulation which would be silly to leave out as things like Sky box RF out still use it.

However it makes sense to drop the nicam decoder.

Souriau

Sometime when we are finished with the TV, some of them get to Africa, so they need analogue tuners, only 2 countries I know of is going digital, South Africa and Ghana

The Cush

Souriau wrote: »

Sometime when we are finished with the TV, some of them get to Africa, so they need analogue tuners, only 2 countries I know of is going digital, South Africa and Ghana

A lot of African countries are moving to DTT Namibia, Kenya, Uganda are others that come mind.

GOtv is a pan-african pay-DTT DVB-T2 service rolling out in several Africa countries.

reslfj

Souriau wrote: »

Sometime when we are finished with the TV, some of them get to Africa, so they need analogue tuners, only 2 countries I know of is going digital, South Africa and Ghana

All of Africa is going to digital - From Congo- Kenya and all countries to the south has selected DVB-T2. Countries like Ghana and Nigeria already have DVB-T2 muxes in operation.
http://dvb.org/about_dvb/dvb_worldwide/index.xml

Import of anything but DVB-T2 is not allowed in more countries in Africa e.g. Kenya.

But an analogue tuner with modern integrated circuits is next to free, when you already have to have to include a DVB-C/T/T2 tuner.
Analogue is expected to be in many cable systems most of this decade.

Lars

Souriau

I thought Ghana was DVB-T, MPEG-4 SD only

winston_1

reslfj wrote: »

All of Africa is going to digital - From Congo- Kenya and all countries to the south has selected DVB-T2. Countries like Ghana and Nigeria already have DVB-T2 muxes in operation.
http://dvb.org/about_dvb/dvb_worldwide/index.xml

Import of anything but DVB-T2 is not allowed in more countries in Africa e.g. Kenya.

But an analogue tuner with modern integrated circuits is next to free, when you already have to have to include a DVB-C/T/T2 tuner.
Analogue is expected to be in many cable systems most of this decade.

Lars

As I have said, there is only one tuner in a TV which does both analogue and digital. It's the decoders which decide whether it is digital or analogue.

Manufacturers certainly don't consider end of use export when designing TV's otherwise they would not have sold UHF only TVs in their millions in the UK.

gerryo

winston_1 wrote: »

Manufacturers certainly don't consider end of use export when designing TV's otherwise they would not have sold UHF only TVs in their millions in the UK.

Very true, saving a few cents on thousands of sets all adds up, you can be sure if it's not needed, it's not included.
Having said that, if you can make a multi-lingual/multi-standard set for several markets, it makes sense to supply the same model to all regions