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November 21, 2005
China launch first HD TV end of year
(AP) Chinese state television will launch the country's first digital high-definition TV channel on New Year's Day, the government said.
The pay channel will broadcast 18 hours a day and carry events such as the 2006 soccer World Cup in Berlin, Xinhua news agency said.
High-definition television offers viewers clearer, more vivid images than those of conventional television. Digital format allows for the transmission of greater volume of data and combines audio and visual content, rather than dividing the two, as in analog format.
The Chinese government says it plans to begin shifting all its television broadcasting to digital in 2008 and cease analog transmission entirely by 2015.
China Central Television has been testing the new digital high-definition channel since September in Hangzhou, a city southwest of Shanghai, Xinhua said.
Posted by admin at November 21, 2005 01:32 PM