The Japanese ISDB-T system was chosen over the European and U.S. alternatives because it would bring more advantages to Brazil

Last week, Minister of Communications Helio Costa said that Brazil selected the Japanese ISDB-T standard as the country's model for terrestrial DTV. The ISDB-T standard uses COFDM, as does the European DVB-T standard, but features a longer interleaver, providing greater immunity to interference from impulse noise. An A

As previously reported in RF Report, Brazil selected a customized version of the Japanese ISDB-T standard that incorporates technologies such as MPEG-4 video encoding that were not widely available when the original ATSC, DVB-T and ISDB-T terrestrial DTV standards were adopted.

The Web site internacional.radiobras.gov.br has featured several articles about selection of terrestrial DTV standard for Brazil. Brazil is proceeding cautiously in selecting a DTV standard and engineers there have been evaluating ATSC, DVB-T and ISDB-T systems for several years. There has even been discussion about

Twelve organizations issued a joint statement rejecting proposals to change the way rights holders are remunerated when copies are made within the European Union.

The Brazilian government Web site Radiobras.gov.br reported last week that a decree signed Thursday by president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made Brazil's choice of the Japanese DTV format as the basis for its own system (Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital Terrestre or SBTD-T) official. The decree gives Brazil 10

TMCNet.com reported that Brazil was dropping plans to develop its own DTV transmission standard. As you may recall, tests of various DTV transmission standards in Brazil provided fuel for the COFDM (DVB-T) versus ATSC (8VSB) modulation debate. RF samples and multipath profiles collected during these tests continue to

The European Union has taken the first steps towards establishing DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting to Handhelds) as the only standard for TV broadcasting to mobile devices in Europe.