Any country looking to bring in digital television can choose from the three standards which already exist, the Japanese, US and European. But rather than choose one standard over another, the Brazilian government has decided to take the best of them and include recent technological advances to create a completely new standard.
Ministry of Science & Technology is bringing together experts from 20 universities coordinated by CPqD (telco industry R&D centre in Campinas, SP) and major IT companies from Japan, US and Europe to work on the project. Brazil is the first country in Latin America to make the move to digital television. It is possible that other countries in the region may follow suit and adopt the new standard, making the potential market even greater.
The cultural and educational use of a television digital system as a form to increase the information access to build and transform the knowledge in the information era, approaches the potential forms of use of the resources of the digital television in the educative context, at a moment that it precedes to the choice of the technological model of reference for the country. It presents the existing standards and the governmental movement in the choice of the Brazilian system.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
