Major setback for Brazil DSO

[mvcg66b3r]

Brazil has abandoned plans to switch off its analogue TV transmissions.

Girod, the operation charged with co-ordinating the adoption of digital TV, has decided to let the already ‘late’ date of 2018 to slip further to 2023. This means that Brazil will hold the unenviable record of being the largest and most important nation to adopt all-digital TV, and significantly later than the ITU’s global target of June 2015 (although some TV frequencies in certain countries can remain in use until 2020).

However, according to the ITU’s latest data Brazil is not alone. War-torn Yemen is also delayed, as is Afghanistan and Barbados as well as a slew of Latin American nations including Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

http://advanced-television.com/2016/01/26/major-setback-for-brazil-dso/

 

[BMR]

I've read the link, but it doesn't really say *why* it has been delayed.

Does anyone here know?

 

[mvcg66b3r]

I've read the link, but it doesn't really say *why* it has been delayed.

Does anyone here know?

Brazil's economy is in shambles, and I think stations didn't have the money buy the equipment needed to make the switch.

 

[davideduardo]

Brazil's economy is in shambles, and I think stations didn't have the money buy the equipment needed to make the switch.

Brazil's TV networks are among the world's most profitable The issue is at the consumer and infrastructure level.

 

[BMR]

So it's more a case of lots of viewers still using analogue CRT TVs?

 

[davideduardo]

So it's more a case of lots of viewers still using analogue CRT TVs?

It has to do with a combination of import duties, the costs of digital TVs, the lower incomes of the semi-urban and rural populations and the lack of cable outside the more affluent large city regions. Going full digital now would deprive a majority of viewers of their television entertainment.

 

[Sammi Brie]

It has to do with a combination of import duties, the costs of digital TVs, the lower incomes of the semi-urban and rural populations and the lack of cable outside the more affluent large city regions. Going full digital now would deprive a majority of viewers of their television entertainment.

The economy can't be understated in this either. Brazil is probably one of the world's worst-performing economies right now and most definitely in recession (its GDP has declined in each of the last three quarters).