Cost is royalties, some of which Japan has agreed to waive, and (I guess) processing power. Brazil will have to subsidize mass-production of ISDB set top boxes, which they may not have to do if they went with ATSC or DVB.
Each station will get an extra 6 MHz chunk to broadcast digital TV. They have to use that entire 6 MHz or forfeit it completely. São Paulo, Rio, and Brasilia will start by then end of 2007. Then other state capitols, then smaller cities, then repeaters until July 2016 when the government takes analog back.
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Cost is royalties, some of which Japan has agreed to waive, and (I guess) processing power. Brazil will have to subsidize mass-production of ISDB set top boxes, which they may not have to do if they went with ATSC or DVB.
Each station will get an extra 6 MHz chunk to broadcast digital TV. They have to use that entire 6 MHz or forfeit it completely. São Paulo, Rio, and Brasilia will start by then end of 2007. Then other state capitols, then smaller cities, then repeaters until July 2016 when the government takes analog back.