The Introduction of ISDB-T

-Benefits for social and economic development-

September 2013

Ministry of Internal Affairs and

Communications, Japan

Digital Terrestrial TV Broadcasting standards in the world

Japan
(Launched in Dec. 2003)
(ASO in Jul. 2011)

Guatemala
(Adopted in May. 2013)

Costa Rica
(Adopted in May. 2010)

Venezuela
(Adopted in Oct. 2009)
(Launched in Jun. 2011)

Ecuador
(Adopted in Mar. 2010)

Philippines
(Adopted in Jun. 2010)

Botswana
(Adopted in Feb. 2013)

Maldives
(Adopted in Oct. 2011)
(state-owned broadcaster)

ISDB-T
(Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial)
DVB-T/T2
(Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial/Terrestrial2)
ATSC
(Advanced Television Systems Committee)
DTMB
(Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcast)

Peru
(Adopted in Apr. 2009)
(Launched in Mar.2010)
Brazil
(Adopted in Jun. 2006)
(Launched in Dec. 2007)
Chile
(Adopted in Sep. 2009)
Argentina
(Adopted in Aug. 2009)
(Launched in Apr. 2010)
Paraguay
(Adopted in Jun. 2010)
(Launched in Aug. 2011)

Bolivia
(Adopted in Jul. 2010)
Uruguay
(Adopted in Dec. 2010)
(Launched in Aug. 2012)

As of August 2013

ISDB-T will be a new platform for the development of your country

FREEtoAIR
AFFORDABLE
TVreceivers

MobileReception

SolvingSocialandEconomicissues,
DigitalDivideandRegionalDivide
eGovernment,Education,andHealth
RuralDevelopment,Disasterprevention

MobileandFixedservices
withONEtransmitter

INTERACTIVE
DataBroadcasting
EmergencyWarning
BroadcastingSystem
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ISDB-T can provide Free mobile TV service

PeoplecanwatchTVatAnytimeAnywhereatnoorlowcost
becauseofunnecessity ofadditionalinvestmentformobileTV
Note:Thefreeofchargeisuptothebroadcasters.

PeoplecanwatchTVatAnytimeAnywhere

outside a building

inside a building

While
walking

In a train

In a car

In a bus

At home

in Public places

Emergency Warning Broadcasting System (EWBS)

RemoteactivationofRadioandTVreceiversreadyforEWBS
AM,FMRadioandTV:ControlsignalandAlertSound
DigitalTVBroadcastingISDBT:
EWBSControl(ActivationFlag)
In Japan,EWBShasbeenoperatedsinceSeptember1985.
EWBSonISDBThasbeenoperatedsinceDecember2003.
Automatic
Activation and
Alert Message

Government
Meteorological
Agency
Broadcasting
Station

Fixed Television
Transmitter

Mobile Terminal

Broadcasting Service Area

EWBSDemonstration
EWBSDemonstrationatISDBTInternationalForuminChile(2011)
MICandChileSUBTEL
(Telecommunication
Department)conducted
EWBSDemoattheforum
3MajorBroadcasterin
Chile(Canal13,MEGA,
andTVN)coveredalive
reportthisdemonstration

Mr.Maruyama,JICAExpertexplains
EWBStoH.E.Mr.Eraslis,Ministerfor
TransportandCommunication

EWBSTrialinPeru(NationalBroadcasterin2010,PanAmericanaTV(Private)in2012)
NationalBroadcasterof
PerustartedEWBSin
December,2010atLima
asthefirstcountryin
SouthAmerica
PanAmericanaTV
(private)alsostarted
EWBSinMay2012

SetTopBoxandMobileterminal
successfullyreceivedEWBSsignal

Police saved 40 lives using a one-seg mobile TV alarm!

Twonewpoliceofficerssaved40peopleslivesonatrainusingatsunamiwarning
alarmfrommobileTV(oneseg)rightaftertheearthquakeoccurredat14:46on
March11,2011.
Theygotatsunamiwarningalarmfromthepassengersmobilephonesequipped
withTVwhencheckingifeveryoneinthetrainwasO.K.Theyquicklydecidedto
leadthe40passengerstoahilltoavoidthetsunami.Allpassengersweresafely
evacuatedfromthetsunamiareabeforethetsunamistruckthetrain.
Derailed train cars
Shinchi
Station

Route for
evacuation

Track of Japan
Railway

Pacific
Ocean
Shinchi Station

Shinchi town hall

The hill

Passengers got
on the truck here

The train cars were derailed by huge tsunami waves.

(March 12, 2011)
(SummaryfromYomiuriShimbun(amajornationalJapanesenewspaper),March29,2011)

The East Japan Great Earthquake

NHK played an important role to disseminate

the early warnings and report the mid- and
post-disaster information.
One-Seg and radio could be effective tools to
disseminate the tsunami warning especially in
the field.
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ISDB-T enables various data broadcasting service!

WithDatabroadcasting,youcan
1)PeoplecangetofthevariousinformationwithoutestablishingtheInternetnetwork.
Weather

Sports

2)Throughtheeducationalcontentswithdata
broadcasting,peoplecanlearnvarioussubjectsevenin
theruralarea.(eEducation)

Databroadcastingisalsoavailablefor
mobileTV!

ISDBTeEducationtrialinBolivia

Examples of Data broadcasting in Japan

e-Government

Traffic

Weather

e-Education

News

Hospital

Sports

Drama

Recipe

Various ISDB-T receivers are available!

Television

Set TopBox[Terrestrial]

Set TopBox[Hybrid]

PortableReceiver
3.5 inch
Portable
Receiver
Charged by
Solar

ISDB-T [Terrestrial]

Hybrid (ISDB-T[Terrestrial] and

DVB-S2 [Satellite]) STB with
BML and EWBS

USB MobileTVTuner
forAndroid

SmartPhone[Android]

GSMMobilePhone

7 inch

MobileTVProjector

Maximum
60 inch

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Note: some products under considerations

Affordable ISDB-T Receivers are available

STBforfixedreception

MobilereceiverwithGSM

USD16

USD40

8MH FOB Price

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Comparison between ISDB-T and DVB-T2

ISDBT

DVBT2

VeryGood

PoorSmall

Good

Verygood

MobileReception

Over200million
shippedsofar

Nocommercial
Productavailable

EWBS*

Inservice

Notavailable

DataBroadcasting

Inservice

Notavailable

AreaCoverage

Capacity
(NumberofChannels)

* Emergency Warning Broadcasting System

People receive Emergency Warning in case of disasters anytime anywhere. 12

Smooth transition to Digitalization

ForISDBTadoptedcountries,Japancanextenditstechnicalsupportforrealizing
smoothtransitiontoDTTB.
InvitingtoatrainingcourseinJapan
HoldingaseminaratISDBTadoptedcountries
Technicalsupport
SharingexperiencewithotherISDBTfamilycountries

SupportfromtheDVBisbusinessbaseonly.
ManyDVBadoptedcountriescantstartdigitalTV(e.g.Uruguay)

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Thankyou
Contact: YukiIde,AssistantDirector,
InternationalEconomicAffairsDivision,MIC
y.ide@soumu.go.jp