The National Commission of Television (CNTV), from Colombia, began last Tuesday the testing of Japan's digital television standard, ISDB-T. The CNTV is the body in charge of developing and executing the plans and programmes related to the public service of television in the country.
These tests consist of install transmitters to check how the various aspects of the Japanese standard in the conditions Colombian physicists. Testing the other two standards which is being evaluated by the CNTV, the North American (ATSC) and the European (DVB), started in July last year in Bogotá and will continue in Pereira.
Parallel to the start of the tests of the Japanese standard, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Japan Communications, Kiyoshi Mori, to lead a delegation of fifteen people who will explain what are the benefits of your country's digital television system and show how it would work in Colombia.
Within the people who accompanying the Deputy Minister are officials from his portfolio, representatives of the Radio Industry Association of Japan and technicians from the Toshiba company.
Mori and his delegation will be meeting with the board of directors of the CNTV on Thursday 15 November to tell you in detail the characteristics of the Digital TV system offered by Japan and the benefits that provides in front of the other systems, said the Embassy of Japan. He added that a demonstration will be held at the Hotel Bogotá Royal of how this model would work in Colombia in case of being chosen by the country as its television system digital.
In March 2008, the CNTV choose the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) standard for Colombia.
In Latin America, and Brazil adopted with its own variants the Japanese standard (to which it gave the name of SBTVD-T) and has indicated on June 29, 2016 as the date for the analog blackout. Uruguay, for its part, adopted the European standard, DVB; and Mexico, it was decided by the American, ATSC.
