[opendtv] Re: Costa Rica Dumps ATSC DTV Standard

  • From: Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:38:04 -0400

Looks like the US is going to switch to a new standard also, LTE.

Bob Miller

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They're saying ISDB-Tb (the Brazilian system) is "far superior to the 
> performance of" DVB-T?
>
> Somehow, I doubt it. Solidarity with Brazil is perhaps a good excuse, but I 
> would have looked more at DVB-T2, if they wanted to make a switch in these 
> times.
>
> Bert
>
> ---------------------------------
> http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/101310
>
> Costa Rica Dumps ATSC DTV Standard
> by Doug Lung, 05.27.2010.
>
> Although Costa Rica began transmitting DTV using the ATSC standard in June 
> 2006, private broadcasters Repretel and Teletica will soon be making the 
> switch to the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-Tb terrestrial DTV standard previously 
> called SBTVD.
>
> Costa Rica's adoption of the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-Tb standard was made 
> official in an executive order signed by the Oscar Arias, the nation's 
> president this week. The order also received the signatures of Costa Rica's 
> Minister for the Presidency and the Minister of Environment Energy and 
> Telecommunications.
>
> Costa Rica formed a special committee last year to test DVB-T, ATSC and 
> ISDB-Tb standards. The committee conducted tests in different parts of the 
> country and concluded that ISDB-Tb was technically more robust and presented 
> "a measurable performance far superior to the performance of the other 
> standards."
>
> Other Latin American companies adopting ISDB-Tb include Chile, Argentina, 
> Venezuela, Peru and Ecuador. ISDB-T is used in Japan.
>
>
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