According to José Rafael Vargas, president of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), the Dominican government will proclaim in January 2010 what will be the digital television standard that will be applied in the Dominican Republic.
This was reported in the framework of the seminar 'Process of implementation of Analog to Digital TV', held in the auditorium of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE).The activity, organized by Indotel and FUNGLODE, was attended by the President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, with the purpose of listening to the experts of the Digital Television and Radio system of the United States (ATSC) and the European Community (DVB-T). Previously, he had held a meeting on the subject with representatives of the Japanese-Brazilian digital television system.
The seminar, which was attended by the main executives of Dominican television and radio, as well as national technicians specialized in digital television, analyzed the advantages that the adoption of one of these standards would represent for the implementation of digital television.
Participating foreign specialists included Robert Graves, president of Forum ATSC, the main entity responsible for implementing digital television in the United States; Robert Struble, president of the Ibiquity digital radio system; Mark Richer's, CD representative; Hector Cambero, Harris Corp; and Julián Seseña, representative of DVB-T.
The president of Indotel showed some tests of the North American system with which it is being experimented, on channel 4 and 17, and thanked the presence of the Dominican President, "who has to have all the technical information available so that we can make the best decision to produce the analog blackout and enter the digital era, something that is going to mark radio and television in the coming decades."
