Mexico. After a 60-day consultation process and taking into account the proposed comments, the Federal Telecommunications Commission, Cofetel, presented the new rule that establishes the conditions that televisions and set-top boxes that are marketed in Mexico under the digital television model must have.
Under the NOM – 192 standard, consumers are offered certainty that the new televisions and set-top boxes they purchase on the market will be technically enabled to receive digital signals.
It specifies that televisions that are marketed for sale to the public within the national territory must have the capacity to receive, tune and reproduce, at least, the signals that are transmitted with the A/53 standard of the ATSC, and it is recommended that they be suitable to receive video signals with the A/72 standard.
This means that all television sets sold on the market must be able to receive, tune and play DTT signals and have the ability to receive, tune and play, at least, HDTV (High Definition Television) and SDTV (Standard Definition Television) signals.
Regarding decoders, NOM-192 establishes that they must have the ability to receive, tune and reproduce the signals that are transmitted with the ATSC A/53 standard and have the capacity to receive, tune and play video signals with the A/72 standard of the ATSC.
It is important to mention that a single period of 30 days will be granted, from the beginning of the validity of NOM-192, so that televisions that do not have the capacity, by themselves, to receive, tune or play at least HDTV and SDTV signals, and are inventoried, can be marketed.
