When
Myanmar (Burma) establishing their first television service, the choice of the
Broadcast television systems is a little bit odds, considering their Geographic. At that time, most of the neighbouring countries are adopting
PAL-B/G system. But, Myanmar (Burma) has chosen
NTSC-M system as their analogue television standard. The reason Myanmar (Burma) adopted NTSC-M standard is because of the
JICA and
Matsushita Electric. They are involved during the establishment of Myanmar's first television service and, they are assisting through various methods like Financially, Technologically and Broadcast Expertise. They lobbying to
Ministry of Information Burma and
Burma Broadcasting Service to adopt NTSC, and the MOI and BBS is agreed. In early 2010s when the
Government of Myanmar is working to adopt Digital terrestrial television standard, Myanmar's chose
DVB-T2 standard on 8 MHz channel spacing on Western Europe / Asia DTV frequency along with Southeast Asian countries (except Philippines). In turn of technologically, DVB-T2 is the most advanced standard and most optimized for Multi-channels purposes. Ministry of Information Myanmar and the 'Big Four' television network's
MRTV,
MWD,
SKY NET and
CANAL+ Myanmar All are recommend to the government to adopt DVB-T2 standard, and government is agreed their recommendations. Because of the
Digital television transition commitment given to the
ITU, all NTSC analogue television services in Myanmar ware switched off on 14 February 2024. • 625 lines PAL-G was never recognised as the official system by the
Government of Myanmar and has never been broadcast on terrestrial network. but many cable providers and SMATV installers are using this system for two reasons. The first resson is, Signal distribution equipment for cable television are imported from
Thailand. The Second reason is, Most
TVRO International satellite feeds are broadcast with analogue PAL, or digital 576i video mode. Converting to NTSC may result reductions of picture quality. To avoid that, cable providers are simply following video mode used by foreign satellite broadcasters. • Before adopting DVB-T2,
MRTV-4 International, 4TV and
MWD Digital used
DVB-T system for their multi-channel services. 4TV upgrade to DVB-T2 in 2014 and abandoned DVB-T and MPEG-2 video encoding. MWD Digital did the same in 2020. == See also ==