Digital Terrestrial Television
In 2005, the Ministry of Information and Culture announced their plan to digitalise nationwide free-to-air TV broadcasts led by MCOT. Trial broadcasts were undertaken, involving one thousand households in Bangkok from December 2000 till May 2001.
On 1 January 2008, TV3 announced that they were carrying out their own tests using a completely different system, T-DMB. However their test transmission is available only to areas surrounding their main headquarters at Maleenond Towers, Pathum Wan, Bangkok. The test signals consists of a single DAB stream. digital terrestrial start in 2013 analong switch off in 2015.
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