DiBEG News (2018)

El Salvador decided to adopt ISDB-Tb as its national digital terrestrial television (DTTV) standard in January, 2017. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of DTTV with the Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecom...

The 54th Inter BEE 2018 was held at the Makuhari Messe in the outskirts of Tokyo from November 14th through 16th, where ARIB/DiBEG participated in the exhibition. It was the 5th consecutive year of participation for ARIB/DiBEG. The Inter BEE announced that there were 1,152 companies/organizations...

The Technical Harmonization Meeting of the ISDB-T International Forum was held in Sao Paulo on August 30 at the Expo Center Norte, at the occasion of the SET EXPO 2018, to exchange the latest information and to discuss the ISDB-T implementation in the member countries. This time 3 member coun...

During the SET EXPO 2018, the 6th regular meeting between ARIB/DiBEG and SBTVD Forum was held in Sao Paulo on August 29 at the Expo Center Norte. From Japan, 8 people attended, including Dr. M. Sugawara of DiBEG, Mr. M. Takada and Mr. H. Kamoda of NHK, Mr. Y. Sakaguchi of JTEC, Mr. K. Kono of ARI...

The SET EXP 2018, the largest conference and exhibition of broadcasting in Latin America, was held by SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão) from August 27 through 30 at the Expo Center Norte in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where seminars, sessions, meetings and exhibition of broadcast-related ...

DiBEG, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), organized and held the "Next-Generation DTTB Technology Workshop" on May 18, 2018 in Tokyo. The Workshop was supported by the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers. This workshop was held in orde...

FoBTV (Future of Broadcast Television) held a meeting in Las Vegas on April 11, 2018. The FoBTV is a voluntary organization with 85 members of more than 20 countries of professional broadcasters, standardization organizations, etc., to share and exchange views and opinions on the future of TV broadc...

The regular meeting between ARIB/DiBEG and the SBTVD Forum was held on April 11, 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Both parties have been meeting twice a year since April, 2016; and this was the 5th meeting, at the opportunity of the NAB Show 2018. The Brazilian side consisted of 12 member...

An expo festival of digital terrestrial TV was held in Managua, Nicaragua on March 21, 2018. Since May 2017 when Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) signed a memorandum with Instituto Nicaragüense de Telecomunicaciones y Correos (TELCOR) on terrestrial digital televisio...

While there are two broadcasters which started test transmission of ISDB-T broadcasting in December, 2017, the government of Guatemala is expected to soon establish a decree which is equivalent to the master plan of transition to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting. Under such circumstances a digita...

Since Bolivia decided to adopt ISDB-T in July, 2010 as its national digital TV standard, digital terrestrial TV service has already been put in service by Bolivia TV (BTV) in several major cities, including La Paz.  With the Supreme Decree No.3152 issued by the Bolivian government as of April 19, 20...