The Minister of Communications of Brazil, Hélio Costa, announced that his country decided to resign from the development of its own standard for digital television due the financial cost that this would imply. Costa stated according to Sao Paulo newspaper O Estado reports that Brazil would resume conversations with the owners of the existing digital television to decide the standard to be adopted in the country.
In January 2003, the Minister Teixeira, at that time holder of the portfolio of Communications of the newly inaugurated government of Lula, surprised by announcing that Brazil would develop its own standard and seek alliances with India and China for its development. Subsequently, the Lula himself took the initiative to a decree where he established the direction to follow.
According to Costa, the development of the Standard State (ATSC) cost nearly $3 billion. We can have the technical conditions but how are we going? to develop a standard with US$80 million? Minister clarifying that Teixiera's original intention was not to create a standard but a model of television of its own, model that would contemplate some rules of implementation, transition and production of televisions and equipment.
