Progress in the implementation of digital television in Cuba – Cuba.cu

Cuba already passed the stage of definition of the -the standard digital TV and most difficult phase advances in the launched with the deployment of the first transmitters in almost all provincial capitals with good coverage .

Eduardo Cabrera Abizaid, researcher at the Institute for Research and Development of Telecommunications of Cuba (LACETEL), spoke about the prospects of digital terrestrial television in the island.

said that at present work in the creation and development of the technology needed to make the people, once acquired the necessary means higher quality access to digital .

Cabrera explained that digital TV is a comprehensive system It encompasses many elements, Radio Cuba is responsible for signal transmission, LACETEL checks and certifies top boxes and Antena Villa Clara prepared the feasibility designs for proper signal reception.

Just all these issues They will be addressed in the Third International Forum of Digital Television, which will run from 14 to 16 September at the Hotel Melia Habana, with the presence of specialists and researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Ecuador, China and Cuba.

According to Cabrera, one of the most important issues to be discussed at the meeting will DTMV- modulation currently in Cuba and the new version is DTMV-A enhanced version adopted in 2010.

During the forum a newer version than the existing one, with greater transmission capacity and more robust -aseguró Cabrera will be tested and will qualify a sample area to socialize the results, because events like these aim to promote the exchange of Management Centre aims to develop research possibilities.

The researcher LACETEL also reported in other areas will discuss reception systems for antennae and cables and about interactivity , solutions software and technical specifications of digital television receivers, sensitivity and magnetic compatibility.

LACETEL took his first steps in January 1964 under the name Central Telecommunications Laboratory, and arose from the need to solve high-level issues that required the execution of applied research.

In June 1991 changed its name to Institute of Telecommunications Research and Development under the Ministry of Communications.