Peru Postpones Recommendation for Terrestrial DTV Standard

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A rough translation from the Portugal Digital article Peru vai avaliar padrão da TV digital brasileira indicates that Peru's Ministry of Transportation and Communications is delaying its recommendation for Peru's terrestrial DTV standard until early next year—90 days from October 2008. The delay was requested by Chinese and Brazilian embassies to allow testing of DMB-T and ISDB-T with the Brazilian enhancements under the same test conditions as the other standards.

Peru is currently conducting tests using ATSC, DVB-T and ISDB -T standards in Arequipa and Cusco provinces. DTV deployment is scheduled to start in 2009, with the analog shutdown occurring sometime during the next 15 years.

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Doug Lung is one of America's foremost authorities on broadcast RF technology. As vice president of Broadcast Technology for NBCUniversal Local, H. Douglas Lung leads NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ RF and transmission affairs, including microwave, radars, satellite uplinks, and FCC technical filings. Beginning his career in 1976 at KSCI in Los Angeles, Lung has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast television engineering. Beginning in 1985, he led the engineering department for what was to become the Telemundo network and station group, assisting in the design, construction and installation of the company’s broadcast and cable facilities. Other projects include work on the launch of Hawaii’s first UHF TV station, the rollout and testing of the ATSC mobile-handheld standard, and software development related to the incentive auction TV spectrum repack. A longtime columnist for TV Technology, Doug is also a regular contributor to IEEE Broadcast Technology. He is the recipient of the 2023 NAB Television Engineering Award. He also received a Tech Leadership Award from TV Tech publisher Future plc in 2021 and is a member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Society of Broadcast Engineers.