Indonesia may adopt European digital TV standard

[BGonaSTICK]

Indonesia should opt for the standard Digital Video Broadcasting for Terrestrial Television (DVB-T) from Europe, said Alexander Rusli, an adviser to the communications minister, on Saturday. He said DVB-T was similar to the PAL system currently in use in Indonesia.

“The PAL system is also European. DVB-T, in our assessment, is the most widely used system and it will be economical for us to adopt it because many other countries also use it,” he said.

The ministry has also looked at the Advance Television System Committee of the US, Japan’s Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting (IDSB) and Digital Mobile Broadcasting from China. “We can’t recommend ISDB from Japan because it’s not widely used despite its Asian origins,” he said.

Source: Media Network Weblog