I live in Brazil which started TDTV last december, 2007.
The terrestrial standard is a now International Standard for Digital Broadcasting Terrestrial ISDB-T where the original Japanese ISDB-T where updated in Brasil to H.264AVC (Part 10) video and HE-AAC v2 audio and some refinements due to M RF american standard 6Mhz in the Americas.

It has been launched in Sao Paulo on eleven TV stations in December, now also in Rio with Four Stations and Belo Horizonte with Two Sations. Up to Dicember, there will be more five capital cities with, at least, two ISDB-T stations.

The reazon I’m writing here is that the satelites’ digital standards in the Americas is the DVB-S and some of them suporting DVB-S2 also, as is the case of, at least, TWO HD Stations from Sao Paulo that, since de terrestrial ISDB-T launch in Dicember 2nd 2007, are FTA broadcasting their HD H.264AVC HE-AACv2 content and their SD and Mobile (1Seg) content, all of them in a MUX hosted by StarOne C2 sat.

I’ve bought a small DVB-S/S2 USB2 DVBWORLD receiver and started to watch the same Video and Audio technology as Norway in an iMac running Windows XP because no MACOSX support yet.

All your text above has many significance and understanding for me as I bought the DVBViewer licence and started imidiately watching, screen capturing, video saving (.TS) and video broadcasting in my LAN and WLan to VLC clients running on MacBooks and PCs.

Some screenshots of DVBViewer in action are:

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2252/sample1bcopytb9.jpg
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8632/sample2bcopyev4.jpg
and an HD Screen capture
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The HE-AACv2 is decoded with LIBAAD2 wrap, showed by DVBViewer as AC3.

Where will we have an MACOSX version of DVBViewer?

Yepp, RiksTV has a certification programme. As far as I have heard it, there is no way around it. Shops are only selling certified boxes.

Thanks a lot for your help. You really saved my life! I still have a little tiny question for you. When you go buying iDTVs or set-top boxes in Norway, do you see any “Digital TV approved” logo? In other words, does Norway have their own “DTV approved product” logo somewhere?

Thanks again and all the best.

Marco.

thank you for reading my blog and sorry for my delayed answer. I will try to answer your questions as best I can, but please also read the following articles: http://www.frankps.net/?s=RiksTV&searchsubmit=Find.

1. The govermental office in charge of all kinds of broadcasting is Medietilsynet. They have opened a site for information about digital TV in Norway – DigitalTvNorge.

2. NTV has built the DTT network, and they are in charge of the infrastructure. NTV is owned by Telenor. RiksTV is the only operator in the DTT network for now, and to make it more complicated RiksTV is owned by Telenor, NRK and TV2.

As long as the analogue signals are not turned off, there is not space enough for another operator, so for now RiksTV remains in a monopoly situation. There is an ongoing discussion about what to do with the bandwidth that is gonna be available when the analogue signals are shut down. First of all, RiksTV wants the space to be able to start some HDTV channels, some politicians want to give the space to another operator to get competition in the market, and Telenor wants the space for future mobile services (among them digital tv for mobile devices, dmb or dvb-h).

If you have further questions, feel free to post them here or contact per e-mail.

I came to this article searching about DVB in Norway and I loved the details. Thanks a lot for sharing this info with the rest of the DVB community! I was on the NTV site but there was no English information avaliable, so I wonder if I could ask for a favor from you by asking the following questions:
1.- What is the name of the Digital TV regulatory body in Norway? As you may be aware, we have the CSA in France, Anacom in Portugal or Italia Digitale in Italy, do you have such body/bodies in Norway? In other words, who regulates digital TV in Norway?
2.- I could only find one digital TV station in Norway: NVT, formed by a join venture between NRK and TV2, is that correct? Are there any other stations in Norway?

I know I am abusing your kindness, but after searching the web for a bit over two weeks I am at the end of my wit.

By the way, I work in the marketing department of a DTV chip manufacturer, and while I am not a technical guy “per-se” I would be more than happy to answer whatever questions you may have related to DVB, although I can see you probably know more than me!

Best wishes,

Marco.