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China announces digital TV standardChina has chosen a standard for terrestrial digital TV broadcasts, opting for a domestically developed system over foreign technology. The standard will become mandatory for Chinese broadcasters on 1 August next year, the China Daily said. China is the world’s biggest television market, with TV sets in an estimated 400 million households. Along with 3G mobile communications, the digitalisation of China’s broadcasting could be worth over 1 trillion yuan (US$125 billion). China began to develop its own terrestrial transmission standard in 2001. Proposals made by Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiaotong University were later merged into a final draft proposal. The Shanghai version borrowed some principles from the US standard and is suitable for transmission in sparsely populated remote areas, while the Tsinghua proposal is based on the same modulation method as current and future mobile communication standards and has its own patents, which will cut royalty costs. Source: Media Network, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
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