Cable TV

[Amazigh Man]

Why isn't there cable TV in Morocco and Algeria like in EU and US?

What is the difference between ordinary land TV emission and the digital new one? on the level of quality and cost.

if a company wants to start a TV network... which of these solutions is the cheapest?

Cable

traditional aerial emission

digital emission

satellite

[Lotfi-dz]

As far as I know, you can get a cable/digital TV in morocco or Algeria, it comes with Art and all them arab channels

[La-Casbah_com]

the roads are ****ed enough as it is without digging to put cable tv

[Amazigh Man]

Originally Posted by Lotfi-dz

As far as I know, you can get a cable/digital TV in morocco or Algeria, it comes with Art and all them arab channels

it's not cable man!

it's satellite decryption cards... those cards get inserted in the Sat receiver.. that's all... and they got pirated in Morocco...


there is no cable TV in Morocco

[Amazigh Man]

Originally Posted by La-Casbah_com

the roads are ****ed enough as it is without digging to put cable tv

loooooool

fantastic point La Casbah.!!!.. hahahhahah

[Amazigh Man]

maybe the best way to make cable Tv in Morocco is let the cables fly in the sky... and then you got Moroccan BskyB

[Trojan]

First of all bro this is a Computer / Internet section.
Normally people would just ignore topics in the wrong sections.

But here's my 2 cents anyhow.

Keyword answer to your post is Infrastructure and Control, you forget that TV is Government Controlled in The Maghreb Countries, for the time being, Desire for control still outstrips greed, the reason Governments would switch to digital is to make money selling more frequencies and bands, but in order to create the content for all these new channels, you can't just keep showing kings, presidents etc... shaking hands with themselves and opening schools etc..., you'd have to have private companies making all the contents or buying lebanese dubbed telenovellas..., we have no film industry in the Maghreb, too much control from the ministries of information and too much red tape and a culture of corruption has killed off the arts, publishing industries are messed up, cos of the controls that these governments impose on writers, thinkers, artists, journalists... why the hell do you think that the Maghreb Countries are Damn intellectually challenged, Drained of all intellegencia, and since the damn 50s people have been mass migrating, The Maghreb countries have a hard time regenerating, the decline in population, though gradual and hardly noticable at first has caused the economies to decline and will continue to do so for a long time to come, the Maghreb is long over due a social revolution.
Everyone knows what's wrong, they just hide thier heads in the sand and think of number one, LOL
One of the biggist problems is social awareness and responsibility, civic education is non-existant, countries that don't have a strong policy on educating the populous on civic and social issues never get anywhere.
National Debt Mounts, People leave in greater numbers, economy just decays from the inside out, you find your country living on handouts, you visit your country and you notice that no matter how long you've been away, where you came from is still the same, or certain things are worst, no progress at all, I can see the effects mass migration had on industry, you see it everywhere.
The root cause for all this is Corruption - Control - Greed and Ignorance.

Back to Digital, not gonna happen till TV manufacturers stop making Analog TVs, or govenments disband thier information/propaganda ministries, or people just vote with thier pockets/feet.

This is supposed to be the information age, you have no idea how much tax revenue is lost simply cos these governments want to maintain control, and won't open up the markets for news, media, publishing, film, music etc...

For the technical questions regarding diffrent transmission protocols here goes:

First Digital allows more bandwidth per frequency, the only limit is Frequency modulation hard limits.
Digital is also easier to transmit, and the equipment and infrastructure is as cheap as mobile phone mast equipment, infact the same equipment and sites that have phone masts are used to relay Digital Terrestrial signals.
If u switch one analog frequency to digital u can fit 1000s of new TV stations and then some.

Cable is expensive, since u'd have to dig up everywhere and get a physical cable to every house, some companies have been doing that over the phone lines for a while, broadband and the new MP4, DIVx, XviD compression standards have made video on demand and ever more viable transmission model.
Cable is Dead and no long economically viable unless it is used for other things besides just TV or phone, it will have to provide specialist content etc...

Sattelite will always exsist since countries/companies want to be able to transmit worldwide, expensive but a nessesary thing, again MP4 etc.. are changing the way this will work, since you can use up less bandwidth companies are now transmitting more hence High Definition TVs Players etc..., besides the whole industry needs to regenerate and keep making money..

Mobile Phones have changed the way people look or information also, 3G hasn't made everyone jump on it yet cos of disappointing content, and lack of internet access on Mobile phones etc, and people really don't want to always use video phones, he only way to get people used to it is to have companies like Microsoft make thier video messenger software available on video phones, and guess what, it's on it's way, G3.5 is already here and at speeds almost the same as home broadband, this could still have a chance when the phones catch up to the home PCs etc..., this is already seen is some countries and on it's way. Look out for Sony PSP2 with intergrated GX broadband mobile phone, games, online movies, news football etc..., who needs a TV at home, or a PC anywhere LOL, hell u could have you're very own Radio/TV transmission station in ur pocket LOL.

Companies are also exploring a new long range and higher bandwidth wi-fi standard, that's probably where G4 is heading, with next generation centrino chips that will work over 45Miles range.

And for companies that want to start a TV network Now, is to stream your stuff over the internet using MP4 or the microsoft alternative, write software for the new phones that will access, download and play that content, better still make ur own mobile phone, or set top box, most of them now are just PCs right, cos this is where it's all going, and you would have sikpped all that investment and the damn headaches.

The next huge thing is Peer to Peer Information and content networks, every home/person will be thier own TV station, all content is provided by the users, thier own equipment acts like relays for stuff thier not even watching ur downloading, pretty much like Kazza-Skype but for TV etc...

The Internet II or The Internet Revisited whatever u wanna call it will be wireless and portable and peer to peer, the question is how will the governments control this, maybe do another 9/11 and make laws to read our emails and listen to our phone calls and keep our phone calls recorded for 10 years and maybe record ur internet activity, ur banking, business activity etc.., it is eventual, oh wait a minute, that's what's happening now isn't it?, damn too late then, No Internet II LOL.

Turned out to be more like 2 bucks, one of those days I guess.
but hey this thread should be moved to the open forum.

Damn I didn't realise this turned out to be some kind of essay/lecture LOL
Oops, since I wrote it, it stays ...

peace out