DiBEG News

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...

The 53rd Inter BEE 2017 was held from November 15th through 17th at the Makuhari Messe in Japan, where ARIB/DiBEG participated in the exhibition for the promotion of ISDB-T. This was the 4th consecutive participation for ARIB/DiBEG. The Inter BEE this year boasted the largest exhibitors of 1,139 ...

On June 15, 2017, the 28th Ceremony of Radio Achievement Award was held by ARIB, where Mr. Olímpio José Franco, Superintendent of Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão (SET) of Brazil, got the Award by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) for his contribution to the ad...

The governments of Japan and the Philippines have been holding a series of Japan-Philippines Joint Working Group (JWG) meetings in order to study and discuss challenges to the ISDB-T implementation in the Philippines; and the 11th JWG Meeting was held on September 23 at the headquarters of National ...

he 4th regular meeting between ARIB/DiBEG and SBTVD Forum was held in Sao Paulo on August 22 at the Expo Center Norte during the SET EXPO 2017. From Japan, 7 people attended, including Dr. M. Sugawara of DiBEG, Mr. K. Murayama and Mr. M. Takechi of NHK, Mr. Y. Sakaguchi of NHK ITEC, Mr. K. Kono o...

The Technical Harmonization Meeting was held in Sao Paulo on August 21 at the Expo Center Norte among the members of ISDB-T International Forum, in parallel with the SET EXPO 2017, to discuss ISDB-T implementation. 6 member country representatives participated in the meeting; from Japan (MIC, two...

The SET EXPO 2017, the largest conference and exhibition in Latin American broadcasting, was held by SET (Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia de Televisão) from August 21 through 24 at the Expo Center Norte in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where seminars, sessions and exhibition of broadcast-related engineering...

The Digital Terrestrial TV Seminar was held in San Salvador, the capital city of El Salvador on June 27 and 28. More than 100 people participated in the Seminar, from Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones (SIGET), and other government bodies, Televisión de El Salvador (TVES, ...

The 3rd regular meeting between ARIB/DiBEG and the SBTVD Forum was held on April 26, 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Brazilian side consisted of total 8 members; Mr. José Marcelo do Amaral, President, SBTVD Forum, Mr. Roberto Franco, member of SBTVD Board of Directors, and 4 other re...

The 6th Japan–Botswana Joint Working Group Meeting was held in Gaborone, Botswana on April 26, 2017 at the headquarters of Department of Broadcasting Services (DBS). The Botswanan side was headed by Mr. Bome Matshaba, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Information & Broadcasting, State President, co...

The Central American Digital TV Forum was held on March 30 and 31 at the Centro Nacional de la Cultura in San Jose, Costa Rica, where approximately 300 people participated, from Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones (MICITT) and other governmental bodies, Sistema Nacional de Radio y...

The 10th Japan–Philippines Joint Working Group Meeting was held in Manila, the Philippines on March 28, 2017 at the headquarters of National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). The Japanese delegation was comprised of the representatives from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC...

In January 2017 El Salvador decided to adopt ISDB-T as its national digital terrestrial TV standard, which means that it is the 19th country in the world, and the 14th country in Latin America, adopting ISDB-T. This time, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) invited Ms. ...

The 2nd Japan–Nicaragua Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting was held in Managua, Nicaragua on March 9, 2017. The Japanese delegation was headed by Mr. Y. Ando, Ambassador of Japan to Nicaragua, with the representatives from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), ARIB/DiBEG, a JICA expe...

On March 6, 2017 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, there was a seminar to introduce digital terrestrial TV in Guatemala. The seminar was organized by the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT), and DiBEG was requested by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) of Japan to join and di...

The Digital TV Summit 2017 was held at the Novotel Manila Araneta Center on February 14 and 15 in Manila, the Philippines. About 400 people participated in the Summit, including the representatives from the Filipino government, academia, broadcasters, manufacturers, etc.  The Japanese delegat...