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April 1, 2021

Brazil Planning Phase 2 for Next Generation Broadcast Solution

The government of Brazil wants to develop a next generation broadcast solution and has formed the Brazilian Digital Terrestrial Television System (SBTVD) Forum TV 3.0 Project. A Call for Proposals was issued in 2020 and the submission period was just closed.  The Forum received 36 responses from 21 different organizations worldwide covering 6 system components (Over-the-air Physical Layer, Transport Layer, Video Coding, Audio Coding, Captions, and Application Coding).

The video coding component is required to support 8K/120fps for Internet delivery (that doesn’t mean that all receivers will be required to support that rate, however). No 8K support is required for over-the-air delivery, however.

Some similar proposals were merged for the sake of Phase 2 testing and evaluation, resulting in the following 33 candidate technologies:

Over-the-air Physical Layer

Candidate Technology Proponents
Advanced ISDB-T DiBEG
ATSC 3.0 ETRI
ATSC
5G Broadcast / EnTV Qualcomm / Rohde & Schwarz GmbH
DTMB-A DTNEL

Transport Layer

Candidate Technology Proponents
ROUTE/DASH ATSC
SMT DTNEL
NERC DTV
OTT-B OTT-Broadcast Consortium
MMT DiBEG
MMT ATSC

Video Coding

Sub-Components Candidate Technology Proponents
Video Base Layer Codec AVS3 DTNEL
Video Base Layer Codec
+ (multilayer) Video Enhancement Codec
VVC main / multilayer DiBEG
InterDigital / Ateme / Fraunhofer HHI
HEVC / SHVC ATSC
Video Enhancement Codec LCEVC (multilayer) V-Nova
Phase / Harmonic
Dynamic Resolution Encoding
(single layer)
Phase / Harmonic
HDR Dynamic Mapping Codec SL-HDR (1/2/3) InterDigital / Philips
ATSC
SMPTE ST 2094-10 (Dolby Vision) Dolby
ATSC
SMPTE ST 2094-40 (HDR10+) Samsung
VR Codec V3C (V-PCC / MIV) InterDigital / Philips / Harmonic / Phase
Emergency Warning System manager ATSC 3.0 AEA ATSC

Audio Coding

Candidate Technology Proponents
AC-4 ATSC
Dolby
AVSA DTNEL
MPEG-H Audio DiBEG
Ateme / Fraunhofer IIS
ATSC

Captions

Candidate Technology Proponents
IMSC1 ATSC
ARIB-TTML DiBEG
AVS Captions DTNEL

Application Coding

Sub-Components Candidate Technology Proponents
All Advanced ISDB-T DiBEG
DTNEL Application Coding DTNEL
ATSC 3.0 ATSC
3D object-based immersive audio interaction MPEG-H Audio Ateme / Fraunhofer IIS
VR / AR / XR support Guaraná CEFET/RJ
voice interaction
gesture interaction
multimodal interaction
multi-user identification support
multi-user interaction support
sensory effects
NCL 4.0 UFF
multi-device support
full IP convergence
Ginga-NCL Use Case for Interactive Educational Video UFPB
geolocation API Ginga support for geolocation, SVG and SSML UnB

Phase 2 tests are expected to be performed in the second half of 2021. Once finalized, the testing and evaluation reports are going to be made publicly available by the SBTVD Forum.

 

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