ISDB-T International or
SBTVD, short for
Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital () is a technical standard for
digital television broadcast used in
Brazil,
Peru,
Argentina,
Chile,
Venezuela,
Ecuador,
Costa Rica,
Paraguay,
Philippines,
Bolivia,
Nicaragua and
Uruguay, based on the Japanese
ISDB-T standard, launched in commercial operation on December 2, 2007, in
São Paulo, Brazil.
The SBTVD standard was developed by a study group coordinated by the Brazilian Ministry of Communications and was led by the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency (
ANATEL) with support from the Telecommunication's Research and Development Centre (
CPqD). The study group was composed of members of ten other Brazilian ministries, the National Institute for Information Technology (ITI), several Brazilian universities, broadcast professional organizations, and manufacturers of broadcast/reception devices. The objective of the group was to develop and implement a DTV (
Digital TV) standard in Brazil, addressing not only technical and economical issues, but also and mainly "digital inclusion" for those living apart from today's "information society" and looking for "e-gov", i.e. to make government closer to the population since in Brazil more than 94% of families have at least one TV set.
SBTVD is also called
ISDB-Tb (
ISDB-T Japanese standard, Brazilian version) and basically differs from original ISDB-T by using
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as a video compression...
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