The guessing game: many years, after the establishment of the National Digital Television Standards committee by the Chinese State Council to manage the country's migration from analogue to digital TV, uncertainties still cloud the horizon over which standards will be officially adopted amid the squabbles of regulators, technicians, and industry interest groups.(digital update)(MII Technology Standards Research Institute)
Asia Image, April, 2004
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By 2002, China had already decided to use the DVB-S standard for the digital transmission of satellite delivered channels. However, in a country where private ownership of satellite dishes is severely restricted, the satellite standard decision was seen as relatively unimportant for the development of the industry as a whole.
The real focus had been on which standards would be approved for cable and terrestrial systems.
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