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El Salvador
Wins Praise On Adoption of ATSC DTV Standard
The ATSC Forum last week welcomed the
government of El Salvador’s decision to
adopt the ATSC Digital Television Standard
for digital terrestrial TV broadcasting.
The decision, made April 22 by the country’s
General Superintendency of Electricity and
Telecommunications, assures El Salvadorans
will have access to a wide variety of
consumer products at the lowest possible
prices, said Robert Graves, ATSC Forum
chairman. Selecting ATSC also will assure
broadcasters in El Salvador achieve “the
greatest possible reception coverage, while
delivering the highest digital payload,” he
said.
The ATSC family of standards will give
broadcasters in El Salvador the ability to
deliver SD digital multicasting, data
services, HDTV and robust transmission to
mobile and handheld devices.
Neighboring Honduras adopted the ATSC
standard in January 2007, and ATSC digital
TV broadcasts, including HDTV, are on the
air in two Honduran cities. ATSC HDTV
broadcasts also began in 2006 in both
Guatemala and Costa Rica, and efforts
continue to bring ATSC DTV broadcasting to
the remaining countries in the region.
The ATSC Standard is fully deployed in the
United States and South Korea, and is
broadly deployed in Canada and Mexico. More
than 140 million ATSC receivers have been
sold worldwide since late 1998, and more
than 30 million additional receivers per
year are expected to be sold for the
foreseeable future.
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