Colombia. The company Energy & Electronics launched the first encoder that is marketed in this country so that televisions can have the signal of Digital Terrestrial Television, DTT.
The general manager of the company, Santiago Espinal, explained that Tédi, Digital Technology, is the result of more than two years of research on the European standard DBV-T, which was adopted by Colombia to replace analog television.
"To achieve the development of the Tédi, we had the support of South Korean companies in the research. In addition, the encoder was tested by the National Television Commission and RTVC, which supported its quality."
This encoder allows you to take advantage of the benefits offered by DTT, such as better image, sound, programming information and record the programs you want with the help of an external memory, among others.
Currently, the two private free-to-air television channels in Colombia, Caracol and RCN, are able to transmit their DTT signal to 25% of the territory, concentrated in the main cities of the country. That's just the market they want to start tapping into at Energy & Electronics.
At the moment, the encoder is on sale in Colombian chain stores at a cost of $155,000 (about $88).
And although the government of this country had announced that the coders were going to be subsidized, at least for the lower strata, Santiago Espinal maintained that so far there has been no decision in this regard.
