KMITL launches commercial digital TV service under DVB-T2-system

BANGKOK, August 7 (TNA) - King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), a leading higher Thai technological school, has officially launched a commercial digital TV service under the digital video broadcasting terrestrial 2, (DVB-T2), standard to become the first modelled digital TV station for local communities and a digital learning source for its own students and those of other educational institutes. Speaking at a ceremony to launch the DVB-T2 service in Bangkok on Monday, KMITL President Associated Professor Dr. Tawil Puengma said that such the innovation, which represents Thailand's radical educational development and paves the way for KMITL to be enlisted among the top five Thai universities and the top ten educational institutes in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) by 2020, can also serve business operators who are interested in the DVB-T2 broadcast system. DVB-T2, an extension of the television standard DVB-T, is now used in 38 countries worldwide. In response to KMITL’s slogan, "Innovative Society", Dr. Tawil acknowledged that the advance digital TV technology provides high-definition broadcasting of contents and supports varieties of multimedia services, and that the contents, in which 30 per cent are for educational purpose, 20 per cent are for cultural purpose and the rest are for marketing purpose, will be aired within the 20-kilometer radius from the transmitter installed at KMITL’s Faculty of Engineering. Dr. Tawil revealed that all the contents will be broadcasted on KMITL’s large screen facing the Motorway and at 8-25 community TV stations in Bangkok’s Minburi, Bangkapi and Praves districts, as well as Bangplee in neighboring Samut Prakan and Chachoengsao province, and that KMITL will start to distribute the set top boxes to the public over the couple of months. (TNA)