Polish experience of transition to digital broadcasting at VI Digital Forum

One of the participants of the discussion about providing people with digital TV at the VI Forum Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine will be a Polish expert Jaroslav Mrochkovski, Advisor of the Board of operator EmiTel. Mr. Mrochkovski will also talk about the history of Poland's transition to digital broadcasting. According to the expert, the Polish digital terrestrial television started in 1997 when several market players decided to work together on effective and smooth implementation of DVB-T platform in Poland. The first experimental broadcasting began in 2001. The first draft of Digital Strategy for Poland was created in 2005. Unfortunately, political change (parliamentary elections) suspended the legislative process. Finally, Digital Law was approved in 2011. Paid DVB-T services started in 2010. ASO is planned for 2013.

More about the current state of the Polish "digital" market and the effects of many years of testing, changes in technology (MPEG-2 to MPEG-4), about self-certified receivers and the support of the population of Poland by them Mr. Jaroslav Mrochkovski will tell during VI Forum Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine , which will be held on September 14, 2012 in Kyiv, within media project Kyiv Media Week.

Recall that the registration continues on Digital Forum site

Details of the program can be found at the link – http://www.dtvforum.org.ua/ua/page/program_2012/ 

Digital Forum is supported by a joint project of the Council of Europe and the European Commission "Promotion of European Standards in the Ukrainian Media Environment". This project (Forum "Digital Broadcasting in Ukraine") is supported by the "Ukrainian media project" (U-Media), implemented by Internews in Ukraine with the support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The main sponsor of VI Digital Forum - company SES Astra. Partner of Digital Forum - Pepsico. Sponsor - company "Tavria". Television partner - First Business Channel. Strategic Partners - Internet publication "Telekritika" and "Media business." Media Partners - Magazines "Telemyr", "Mediasat", Internet resources "Bizreliz" and Itmozg.ru

For all information please contact Chrystyna Drogomyretska, tel.+38 0 67 657 95 15 e mail: project@nam.com.ua

KYIV MEDIA WEEK will be held in Kyiv on 11-14 September 2012 in Radisson Blu Hotel.

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