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The following review compares the worldwide digital broadcasting systems ATSC, DVB-T and ISDB-T. (January 2007)



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Digital broadcasting systems for terrestrial television
Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Australia and Oceania
Europe
North America
South America


1. Digital broadcasting systems for terrestrial television (January 2007)

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Dated: September 2006, Source: DVB Project

Brief overview
SystemExplanation
DVB-TBroadcasting via DVB-T is actively in use.
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
DVB-T adopted: Countries which have adopted the DVB-T system.

RRC06: The according countries participate in the Regional Radiocommunications Conference 2006 of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). It can be assumed that all countries taking part will ultimately use the DVB-T system when they move from analog to digital.
DVB-T trial broadcastsThose countries undertake trials with DVB-T.
ATSCBroadcasting via the ATSC system is actively in use.
ATSC adoptedCountries which have adopted the ATSC system.
ISDB-TBroadcasting via ISDB-T is actively in use.
SBTVD-T adoptedCountries which have adopted the SBTVD-T system.
DMB-T and DMB-H announcedNo formal adoption of a DTT standard. Commercial DVB-T services.
Commercial DVB-T servicesNo formal adoption of a DTT standard.
 Undecided countries.

Terrestrial transmission systems of digital television
ContinentSystemCountries/Territories
Africa
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Algeria
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Angola
  Benin (formerly Dahomey)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Botswana
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Burkina Faso
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Burundi
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Cameroon
DVB-T trial broadcasts Cape Verde
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Central African Republic
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Chad
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Comoros (incl. Mayotte)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (formerly Zaire)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Congo, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Djibouti
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Egypt
  Equatorial Guinea
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Eritrea
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Ethiopia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Gabon
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Gambia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Ghana
  Guinea
  Guinea-Bissau
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Kenya
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Lesotho
  Liberia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Libya
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Madagascar
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Malawi
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Mali
  Mauritania
DVB-T Mauritius
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Morocco
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Mozambique
DVB-T Namibia
  Niger
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Nigeria
  Réunion
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Rwanda
  São Tomé and Príncipe
  Sahara, Democratic Arab Republic (Western Sahara)
  Saint Helena (Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Senegal
  Seychelles
  Sierra Leone
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Somalia
DVB-T trial broadcasts South Africa
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Sudan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Swaziland
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Tanzania
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Tanzania - Unguja Island (formerly Zanzibar) and Pemba
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Togo
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Tunisia
  Uganda
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Zambia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Zimbabwe
 
Antarctica   Antarctica
 
Asia
  Afghanistan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Bahrain
  Bangladesh
  Bhutan
DVB-T trial broadcasts Brunei (Negara Brunei Darussalam)
  Cambodia
DMB-T and DMB-H announced China, People's Republic of (incl. Tibet)
  East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  Hong Kong
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
India
DVB-T trial broadcasts Indonesia (incl. Irian Jaya)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Iran
  Iraq
ISDB-T Japan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Jordan
  Korea, North
ATSC Korea, South
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Kuwait
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Kyrgyztan
DVB-T trial broadcasts Laos
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Lebanon
DMB-T and DMB-H announced Macao (Macau)
DVB-T trial broadcasts Malaysia
  Maldives
  Mongolia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
  Nepal
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Oman
  Pakistan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Philippines
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Qatar
DVB-T Saudi Arabia
DVB-T Singapore
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Socotra
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Syria
DVB-T Taiwan
  Tajikistan
DVB-T trial broadcasts Thailand (formerly Siam)
  Turkmenistan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
United Arab Emirates, UAE (incl. the Emirates Abu Dhabi and Dubai)
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Uzbekistan
DVB-T trial broadcasts Vietnam
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Yemen
 
Australia
and
Oceania
DVB-T Australia
  Cook Islands (incl. Tokelau)
  Easter Island
  Fiji Islands
  French Polynesia (incl. Tahiti)
  Guam
  Kiribati (Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands, Line Islands)
  Marshall Islands
  Micronesia (Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands)
  Nauru
  New Caledonia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
New Zealand
  Niue
  Norfolk Island
  Northern Mariana Islands
  Palau
  Papua New Guinea
  Pitcairn
  Samoa
  Samoa, American
  Solomon Islands
  Tonga
  Tuvalu
  Vanuatu
  Wallis and Futuna Islands
 
Europe
DVB-T Albania
DVB-T Andorra
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Armenia
DVB-T Austria
DVB-T Azerbaijan
DVB-T trial broadcasts Azores
DVB-T trial broadcasts Belarus
DVB-T Belgium
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Bosnia and Herzegovina
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Bulgaria
DVB-T trial broadcasts Canary Islands
DVB-T Channel Islands
DVB-T trial broadcasts Croatia
DVB-T trial broadcasts Cyprus
DVB-T Czech Republic
DVB-T Denmark
DVB-T Estonia
DVB-T Faroe Islands
DVB-T Finland
DVB-T France
DVB-T France - Corsica
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Georgia
DVB-T Germany
DVB-T Gibraltar
DVB-T Greece
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Greece - Crete
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Hungary
DVB-T trial broadcasts Iceland
DVB-T trial broadcasts Ireland, Republic of
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Israel
DVB-T Italy
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Kazakhstan
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Latvia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Liechtenstein
DVB-T Lithuania
DVB-T Luxembourg
DVB-T trial broadcasts Macedonia
DVB-T trial broadcasts Madeira
DVB-T Malta
DVB-T trial broadcasts Moldova (Republic of Moldova)
DVB-T Monaco
DVB-T trial broadcasts Montenegro
DVB-T Netherlands (Holland)
DVB-T Norway
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Poland
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Portugal
DVB-T trial broadcasts Romania
DVB-T Russia
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
San Marino
DVB-T trial broadcasts Serbia
DVB-T trial broadcasts Slovakia
DVB-T trial broadcasts Slovenia
DVB-T Spain
DVB-T Sweden
DVB-T Switzerland
DVB-T trial broadcasts Turkey
DVB-T adopted or
RRC06 participant
Ukraine
DVB-T United Kingdom (Great Britain [England, Scotland, Wales] and Northern Ireland)
DVB-T Vatican City
 
North America
  Anguilla
  Antigua and Barbuda
  Aruba
  Bahamas
  Barbados
  Belize
  Bermuda Islands
  British Virgin Islands
ATSC Canada
  Cayman Islands
  Costa Rica
  Cuba
  Dominica
  Dominican Republic
  El Salvador
DVB-T Greenland
  Grenada
  Guadeloupe
  Guatemala
  Haiti
  Honduras
  Jamaica
  Martinique
ATSC Mexico
  Montserrat
  Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten [Saint-Martin])
  Nicaragua
  Panama
  Puerto Rico
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Saint Lucia
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Turks and Caicos Islands
ATSC United States of America, USA (incl. Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Midway Islands and Wake Island)
  Virgin Islands of the United States
 
South America
Commercial DVB-T services Argentina
  Bolivia
SBTVD-T adopted Brazil
  Chile
  Colombia
  Ecuador
  Falkland Islands
  Guiana, French
  Guyana
Commercial DVB-T services Paraguay
  Peru
  Suriname
  Uruguay
  Venezuela


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