ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting – Terrestrial / 13-Seg / Full-Seg) News

Peru proposes ISDB STB manufacturing hub
Nov 26, 2009 – The Deputy Minister of Communications of Peru is seeking to make the city of Tacna, with its Free Trade Zone, into a regional centre for development and manufacturing of ISDB set-top boxes.
News categories: ZOFRATACNA, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Peru, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Fórum SBTVD defines two interactivity profiles
Nov 9, 2009 – The Fórum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terreste (Fórum SBTVD) has decided to create two interactivity profiles for the Japanese-Brazilian digital TV standard.
News categories: Fórum SBTVD, Brazil, Middleware, SBTVD, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

DTT penetration reaches 69.5% in Japan
Nov 7, 2009 – Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has estimated that 69.5 percent of Japanese families had acquired TVs or tuners to receive terrestrial digital broadcasting signals as of the end of September, up 8.8 points from March.
News categories: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Japan, Market Research, Terrestrial

Q2-09 was a Record-Setting Mobile TV Quarter
Oct 28, 2009 – Issue No. 10 of the quarterly TeleAnalytics Mobile TV Tracking Service (TMTS) quantitatively substantiates the position taken back in Q3-08 that the worldwide Mobile TV adoption/sales would not be much upset by the financial crisis.
News categories: TeleAnalytics, 5G, Brazil, China, Digital TV, Europe, ISDB-T, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, Russia, SBTVD, USA

ISDB broadcasting in Argentina to begin in 2 months
Oct 20, 2009 – Argentina will begin the first tests of its ISDB-based Sistema de TV Digital Terrestre digital TV service in the next two months, with the goal of covering about 400 cities and towns by 2011.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Venezuela adopts ISDB digital TV standard
Oct 6, 2009 – The Venezuelan government has announced that it has adopted the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T system of digital TV.
News categories: Digital TV, ISDB-T, SBTVD, Terrestrial, Venezuela

Chile adopts ISDB-T
Sep 15, 2009 – Chile will adopt the Japanese ISDB-T digital television standard the country's President Michelle Bachelet has said.
News categories: Chile, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Terrestrial

Analog Devices Unveils Multi-Standard Terrestrial Mobile TV RF Tuners
Sep 9, 2009 – Analog Devices (NYSE:ADI) has extended its mobile television RF product family. Compatible with global terrestrial mobile TV standards, ADI's ADMTV803 and ADMTV804 RF tuners consume 60% less power and are 50% smaller than competing tuners.
News categories: Analog Devices, Digital TV, DTMB, ICs, ISDB-T, Mobile, Semiconductor, Terrestrial

Argentina to go with ISDB-T for digital terrestrial
Aug 26, 2009 – According to statements made by Brazil's Communications Minister, Hélio Costa, the Japanese ISDB-T standard used in his country will also be adopted by Argentina.
News categories: Argentina, Digital TV, ISDB-T, Terrestrial