What does digital television bring?

Statistics and experience show us that infrequent events, no matter how well predicted, always surprise some participants and catch them 'with their trousers down'. One such event was supposed to occur on New Year's Eve 2010, at the moment of celebration and joy. The diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part.

Problem

Statistics and experience show us that infrequent events, no matter how well predicted, always surprise some participants and catch them 'with their trousers down'. One such event was supposed to occur on New Year's Eve 2010, at the moment of celebration and joy. On 1 January 2011 at 00:00, all those who receive television signal via domestic aerial and await this event unprepared will be served with a black screen.

Slovenia will switch off analogue terrestrial television transmitters and enter the era of digital television. Part of the population, comprising approximately 40 per cent of households, will spend the New Year holidays in peace without television broadcasts. However, if you are amongst those who receive television signal via satellite or cable, then nothing new will actually happen.

Cable programme providers are not bound by the switch-off of analogue broadcasting and can continue to offer you the old analogue programme scheme via cable without difficulty, although they have most likely already offered you the transition to digital reception. Through this, they can offer you more programmes and better signal quality. You only need an additional converter or Set-Top Box, which converts the digital signal from the cable network into an analogue signal suitable for your television.

Solution and method

The diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. In the theoretical part, we wish to learn the basic characteristics of digital television. In the empirical or research part, they wanted to find out how television viewers are prepared for the transition into the digital age of television.