Venezuela begins DTT emissions under the ISDB-T standard

This week Venezuela begins a pilot test for the implementation of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in that country under the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T standard.

The president of the National Telephone Company of Venezuela CANTV, Manuel Fernández, has confirmed that the pilot digital terrestrial broadcasting program has begun this week in Venezuela, under the Japanese-Brazilian ISDB-T standard, currently reaching some three thousand homes in Caracas, with 12 channels broadcast in free-to-air tests. Among the channels that CANTV will offer, in a first phase, are those that are part of the National Public Media System (SNMP) as well as a selection of Latin American channels.

“In a first stage it will be applied as a test and according to the result, in a second stage, it will be applied to the public media system and private television stations,” said Fernández.

The national public media system is in the preparation phase to assimilate the transition, while the first equipment for the change from analog to digital television arrived since the end of 2010.

Coinciding with the deployment of DTT, the Venezuelan government intends to promote a technological distribution platform that integrates terrestrial, satellite television and mobile, fixed and Internet telephony, thus integrating remote communities to technological services, to the regions of the country that are in more remote areas. To do this, the digital deployment will have the support of the Venezuelan satellite Simón Bolivar