VENEZUELA: Venezuela adopts Japanese digital television technology.

Record ID: 643992

  • Title: VENEZUELA: Venezuela adopts Japanese digital television technology.
  • Date: 7th October 2009
  • Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (OCTOBER 06, 2009) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT NEW DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEM SIGN SAYING "LAND DIGITAL TELEVISION" VARIOUS OF PEOPLE LOOKING AT TELEVISION SOUNDBITE (Spanish) VARIOUS OF ASSOCIATION OF RADIO INDUSTRIES AND BUSINESSES (ARIB) JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE, ELIJI ROPPONGI, SAYING: "To start with the overland digital transmission will be sent simultaneously with the analog [signal], so it won't come as a big shock and people won't have to desperately go out and start buying [the new system] but it will happen gradually." JAPANESE SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE PRIME MINISTER, MASAMITSU NAITO, SIGNING AGREEMENT WITH VENEZUELAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER JESSE CHACON PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS CHACON AND NAITO SHAKING HANDS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VENEZUELAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER JESSE CHACON, SAYING: "We are proud to have finished our evaluation process and to be able to announce to Venezuela and all Venezuelans that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will take on the ISDB-t digital television standard, with the enhancements introduced by Brazil in terms of the mechanisms of data compression. That means that instead of working with MPG2 we will work with MPG4 and all of the work by Middleware that has been developed into Ginga that Brazil has introduced." JOURNALISTS CLOSE-UP OF NAITO (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPANESE SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE PRIME MINISTER, MASAMITSU NAITO, SAYING: "We have just signed with the minister a memorandum for the introduction of the ISDB-t system in Venezuela. I am very honoured and this is a historic moment in Venezuela." VENEZUELAN AND JAPANESE DIPLOMATS (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) NAITO, SAYING: "As special envoy for Prime Minister Hatoyama, I hope that this strengthens the link between Venezuela and Japan. Thank you very much." OFFICIALS LISTENING NAITO SHAKING HANDS WITH CHACON VARIOUS OF ROPPONGI SHOWING CHACON HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS
  • Embargoed: 22nd October 2009 13:00
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  • Topics: Communications,Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
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  • Story Text: Venezuela joins tide of Latin American countries on Japanese digital television standard, choosing it over those offered by the United States and Europe.
    Venezuela adopted the Japanese-Brazilian digital television standard on Tuesday (October 6), following suit alongside a number of other Latin American countries The television system is a Brazilian hybrid of Japanese technology, called ISDB-Tb, that Brazil adopted in 2006.
    It compacts, packages and transmits television signals much cheaper than analog systems, has a better image quality and permits user interaction.
    "To start with the overland digital transmission will be sent simultaneously with the analog [signal], so it won't come as a big shock and people won't have to desperately go out and start buying [the new system] but it will happen gradually," explained one Japanese representative for the ARIB radio association.
    Venezuela's Science and Technology Minister Jesse Chacon signed the agreement alongside Japan's Special Envoy to the Prime Minister, Masamitsu Naito.
    "We are proud to have finished our evaluation process and to be able to announce to Venezuela and all Venezuelans that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will take on the ISDB-t digital television standard, with the enhancements introduced by Brazil in terms of the mechanisms of data compression. That means that instead of working with MPG2 we will work with MPG4 and all of the work by Middleware that has been developed into Ginga that Brazil has introduced," Venezuela's Science and Technology Minister Jesse Chacon said.
    Japan's ISDB-T standard is the least widespread digital television system; Europe's DVB and America's ATSC have proven more popular so far.
    But in Latin America, the biggest television markets including Chile, Peru and Argentina all announced this year they will also take on the Japanese-Brazilian hybrid.
    Colombia, however, chose to go for the European standard in August last year.
    "As special envoy for Prime Minister Hatoyama, I hope that this strengthens the link between Venezuela and Japan. Thank you very much," Japan's Special Envoy to the Prime Minister, Masamitsu Naito, said.
    Other countries in the region, such as Ecuador, are still deciding which of the three digital standards to take on.
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