{"id":649,"date":"2011-08-11T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T07:18:06","slug":"ugandas-transition-to-digital-television-where-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Uganda&#8217;s transition to digital television  &#8211; Where are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With less than 16 months left, questions are being asked as to whether Uganda will beat the December 2012 deadline of switching from analogue to Digital TV.  A couple of posts of interest:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/News\/National\/-\/688334\/1213220\/-\/bkis53z\/-\/index.html\">UBC Not ready &#8230; Daily Monitor<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/D\/8\/220\/760671\">Government Stops &#8230; New Vision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMy observations so far:<br \/>\nThere seems to be a lot of misinformation about the migration from analogue to digital TV.  For example, the general public perception is that this switch would necessitate households to subscribe to a TV digital provider.  There&#8217;s very little information with the exception of the informational TV ads that were run by Uganda Communications Commison (UCC) a few months back.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lack of any serious pilot testing taking place at the moment.  The only broadcaster currently transmitting a Free to Air signal is Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC).  With more broadcasters allowed to run tests, I believe most early adopters would begin to switch.<\/p>\n<p>Do you live in Uganda? What do you think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With less than 16 months left, questions are being asked as to whether Uganda will beat the December 2012 deadline of switching from analogue to Digital TV. A couple of posts of interest: UBC Not ready &#8230; Daily Monitor Government Stops &#8230; New Vision My observations so far: There seems to be a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joseph.zikusooka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}