Media news daily: Singapore starts digital TV broadcasts

Today I've just received some piece of news from ABU and MediaCorp. Neighbouring country down south Singapore has just started terrestrial digital TV broadcasts using DVB-T2 since yesterday, starting with Bukit Batok. Jurong East and Ang Mo Kio will have digital TV in early 2014. Digital TV broadcasts in Singapore carries the HD versions of Channel 5, Channel 8, Suria and Vasantham and also the SD versions of other channels until being switched to HD in 2016. Digital TV coverage will expand within two to three years while the analogue signals will run parallel with the digital signals for another two years. MediaCorp will also offer value-add services on digital TV in the future such as time-shifted services, closed captions and multi-language subtitles.