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Analog tuners in new televisions

  • 24-09-2012 9:51pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,969 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,969 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭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 :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Souriau


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭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


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