To make television viewing a better experience for Indian consumers, the Indian national public service broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, will soon launch the high definition television (HDTV) services on an experimental basis.
The broadcaster is planning to introduce the HDTV in the country by 2010 to enable viewers to enjoy the Commonwealth Games in that mode.
According to an engineer of Kolkata Doordarshan, the Centre is looking at formulating a policy framework to introduce and promote HDTV that provides viewing at a much better resolution. Also, the government is considering stopping all analogue broadcasts before the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and across the country by 2015.
“HDTV is a digital TV broadcasting system with greater resolution than traditional signals. It is digitally broadcast and requires less bandwidth if sufficient video compression of content is done,” he said.
“The Centre believes the HDTV format is fast catching up globally and needs to be set up in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games telecast “, he added.