Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called on manufacturers of Set Top Boxes/Decoders in the country to produce a multi-purpose television set, saying it will help in transforming the TV experience of Nigerians.
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Mohammed made the call when he commissioned the ultra-modern Digital Set Top Box manufacturing plant, owned by the Gospell Digital Technology in Calabar on Thursday.
The Minister said the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in the country is aimed at giving Nigerians a total television viewing experience that will transform their lives and change TV viewing forever.
According to him, “I have continued to reiterate, and the quality of the service we launched goes to confirm, that our objective is not to just move Nigerians from analogue to digital in a simple technical sense, but to improve the viewing experience and give them increased variety of channels and services.
“The average home today – in order to have access to the various types of entertainment – will require a television, a Set Top Box and a VCD/DVD player. This era is about to end. I am challenging the industry to move to one device in the home – the television. Give us a TV with a built-in decoder and the requisite middle-ware inside it, being able to access Nollywood releases with or without the internet, and with a remote control that can convert the TV into a computer.
“And please not for the rich, but for every Nigerian home. With that we would have succeeded in the reduction of the cost of access to television, information and education.”
