Peruvian Group Picks Japanese-Brazilian DTV Standard

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Peru's National Radio and Television Society has announced that it prefers the Japanese-Brazilian SBTDT terrestrial DTV standard, according to the Web site LivingInPeru.com.

Peru's National Radio and Television Society includes four private TV stations and 17 radio stations. The article said the Society did a detailed commercial and economic comparison of the competing standards and concluded that SBTDT would be the best choice.

As reported last week, Peru's Ministry of Transportation has the report from the multisectorial commission's tests of the ATSC, DVB-T, DTMB, and SBTDT standards but has yet to adopt a terrestrial DTV standard for Peru. Minister Enrique Cornejo said last week that the price to the consumer was one of the factors it would consider in adopting a standard.

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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.