Venezuela aims for technological cooperation
In recent months there are several rumors that have circulated about the election that Venezuela will take. However, the only certain thing is that the government has already ruled out the North American ATSC standard and that beyond the technical performance of each of the standards evaluated, what the country seeks is to guarantee a real technology transfer and technical cooperation.
In July, President Hugo Chávez indicated that the announcement would be made soon after having analyzed the Chinese, European and Japanese standards and concluding the technical visits made by the Minister of Science, Technology and Intermediate Industries, Jesse Chacón, to Japan and other eastern countries.
Chacón pointed out, in a press conference, that the deployment of the Japanese standard made in Brazil was evaluated, which, he said, has very good performance, with the advantage that mobility is intrinsic to the system, unlike the European model.
For his part, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said that his country is willing to cooperate in the transfer and training of human talent to implement digital television in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan minister also held meetings with the Executive Vice President of the Consumer Electronics Company Toshiba, Toshio Masaki, and with the President of the Yokosuka Research Park (YRP), a company in which he learned about industrial developments in electronic equipment, as well as advances in telecommunications research and development, especially wireless.
In May of this year several media announced that the Venezuelan government would have decided on the Chinese DTMB model for the launch into orbit of its first satellite since a first agreement between the two parties contained a technology transfer clause to which Venezuela aims. However, this version was not corroborated by any official body.
In addition, Venezuela is in talks with Brazil with a view to developing a common digital television system. Specifically, the authorities of the two countries are studying the potential of the SBTDV; but, beyond that, Venezuela wants to develop its own model from the Brazilian one.
Regardless of the choice, Venezuela expects to migrate all its operations to digital in ten years; although in 2018 the selected standard will still coexist with analog transmissions.
