SP wants to end encryption digital packages

The SP wants that UPC and Ziggo to be legally required to have the digital standard package of tv channels in the clear to transmit. According to the party hinder the encrypted transmissions of the opportunities to step up.

The SP Member of parliament Jasper van Dijk has the Questions about the encoding being sent to the ministers Of Bijsterveldt of EDUCATION, culture and science and Verhagen of Economic Affairs. “Are you willing cable companies to legally commit their digital signal is unencrypted, free to cable, as they at no extra cost a digital basic package offer?”, asks the Mp. According to Van Dijk, consumers in the coding forced to use special equipment, and smart cards to purchase, and this would them impede to move.

Ziggo spokesman Gradus Vos release to Dutchmedia know that the cable company is also the basic encoding to provide customers easier to switch to pluspacks and to find out who digital look. For analog viewers would Ziggo, in fact, no payments have to do so to publishers.

Smaller kabelaars as CAIW and Rekam encode their standard package, and the advantage of this is that customers immediately the image if they have a tv with dvb-c interface on the cable.

Van Dijk wants to do more of the members of the government know what they think that Ziggo’s analogue package, however from thirty to twenty-five stations. The Mp believes that the rate therefore reduced and that Ziggo this allows customers forces to tv to digital tv. The minister of EDUCATION, culture and science gave earlier with no problems to be seen in the phasing out of the analogue channels by Ziggo.


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